Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:55:11PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > continues in 5 mins... Yes ... I could not join ... I had set up a jitsi meeting early y/day evening ... Firefox could not see my webcam it could a few days ago - but was updated on Saturday - which, I suspect, is the

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:56 PM Alain D D Williams wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:55:11PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > continues in 5 mins... > > Yes ... I could not join ... I had set up a jitsi meeting early y/day > evening ... Firefox could not see my webcam it could a

[Arm-netbook] Window managers --- was: Re: OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Wolfram Kahl
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:17:49PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > 21 years ago i deliberately chose fvwm2 and do not install a "desktop" > *at all*. i log in at the console, have created a suitable ~/.xinitrc > (which includes fvwm2 at the end, non-backgrounded), and run "startx".

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Ibrahim Ghazal
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 15:18, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > sadly though they over-rode common sense *and blatantly disregarded > the results of a major poll/vote* by making systemd the default. What vote is that? There have been two Debian "General Resolutions" about systemd. The result

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:49:25PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > If you want Mate and do not want systemd, you could start with Devuan and > install mate as a package. > Mate is not the default desktop, but it is available. The principle of systemd I am OK with, what I do not like is that it has

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 12:56:25PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:55:11PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > continues in 5 mins... > > Yes ... I could not join ... I had set up a jitsi meeting early y/day > evening ... Firefox could not see my webcam it

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 6:49 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > If you want Mate and do not want systemd, you could start with Devuan and > install mate as a package. the downside of devuan is how far they diverged from debian (global search/replace debian on *everything*). this means that if you want to

Re: [Arm-netbook] Window managers --- was: Re: OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 4:35 PM Wolfram Kahl wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:17:49PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > 21 years ago i deliberately chose fvwm2 and do not install a "desktop" > > *at all*. i log in at the console, have created a suitable ~/.xinitrc > > (which

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:54:17PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > Alain D D Williams writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:49:25PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > >> If you want Mate and do not want systemd, you could start with Devuan and > >> install mate as a package. > >> Mate is not the

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Alain, Alain D D Williams writes: > Time to upgrade my desktop to be able to run Brave (which does work with > jitsi). Isn't Brave a bit dodgy in parts too? ISTR seeing someone talking about forking it to remove some sort of tiresomeness. If you fancy something completely different, I'm

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On 10/7/20, Philip Hands wrote: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php ah fantastic, that's really good to know. my friend showed me mint when it first came out, he loved it, it was really easy: then he said "it's an ubuntu derivativr" and i switched off and never looked at it since. if

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Philip Hands
Alain D D Williams writes: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:49:25PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> If you want Mate and do not want systemd, you could start with Devuan and >> install mate as a package. >> Mate is not the default desktop, but it is available. > > I would like LVM on top of Raid-1