Re: Debian question

2021-03-11 Thread Karthik
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 11:27 AM jacky cheung wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to debian and trying to learn about its operating system. > > I am trying to learn how processor management techniques utilized and its > functions, quantum, interrupts and multiprocessor. I am confused and trying > to find par

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread Weaver
On 12-03-2021 16:59, deloptes wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: > >> Several months ago FB turned nearly useless with sloth. I have a sense >> what happened is it started screening everything for potential to censor. >> I can type nearly a sentence before any characters appear on screen. >> Anything ser

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > Several months ago FB turned nearly useless with sloth. I have a sense > what happened is it started screening everything for potential to censor. > I can type nearly a sentence before any characters appear on screen. > Anything serious I wish to post has to be composed elsewh

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

2021-03-11 Thread deloptes
Victor Sudakov wrote: > "wipefs -t btrfs -f -a /dev/nvme1n1" did the job. > > Still wondering where those labels are stored on disk in Linux. > FS Superblock? > In FreeBSD, GEOM(4) usually keeps such stuff in the last sector of a > volume/device. I think it depends on the FS not on the OS.

Re: What does "Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44" mean?

2021-03-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2021-03-12 02:13 -0400, Tony Rowe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:36:59PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: >> Hi i am translator Debain webpage in Korean. >> >> At bug mailing, >> some user wrote in body of message [1] as below: >> >> #+begin_src text >> Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44 >> #+end_src

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread William Torrez Corea
I get the following result: __ cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 800 MHz Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 800 MHz Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1

Re: What does "Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44" mean?

2021-03-11 Thread Tony Rowe
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:36:59PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > Hi i am translator Debain webpage in Korean. > > At bug mailing, > some user wrote in body of message [1] as below: > > #+begin_src text > Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44 > #+end_src > > In particular, i am curious the digit "-1". > For

Debian question

2021-03-11 Thread jacky cheung
Hi, I am new to debian and trying to learn about its operating system. I am trying to learn how processor management techniques utilized and its functions, quantum, interrupts and multiprocessor. I am confused and trying to find particular resources related to these topics. What are the best reso

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 02:19:28PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > There's no mention of shutting off the built-in DHCP server. That's because there's no need to. Unless guess OS requests a DHCP less, a DHCP server will remain dormant. > Maybe a specific ip address shuts it off.

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/11/21, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 13:25 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: >> 11 mar 2021 10:40, wrote:[1] >> > I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If >> > I want to >> > find the original email which might have more context, that is very >> > helpful. >>

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

2021-03-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 13:39, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > > btrfs thinks that /dev/nvme1n1 has a btrfs: > > > > > # btrfs filesystem show > > > Label: none uuid: 3414ae53-f3d4-43ea-bb88-ffefc9bc86f6 > > > Total devices 1 FS bytes used 1.05TiB > > > de

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 16:02:55 (-0400), Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 14:51, David Wright escribió: > > Take the case where partition E: contains the users' home > > directories for users foo and bar. Foo's video collection > > in E:/foo/Videos/ eventually grows so large th

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

2021-03-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
David wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 13:39, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > btrfs thinks that /dev/nvme1n1 has a btrfs: > > > # btrfs filesystem show > > Label: none uuid: 3414ae53-f3d4-43ea-bb88-ffefc9bc86f6 > > Total devices 1 FS bytes used 1.05TiB > > devid1 size 2.00TiB use

What does "Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44" mean?

2021-03-11 Thread 황병희
Hi i am translator Debain webpage in Korean. At bug mailing, some user wrote in body of message [1] as below: #+begin_src text Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44 #+end_src In particular, i am curious the digit "-1". For long time i was thinking about that the "-1". Is that "subtraction"? or an

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

2021-03-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:38:04 -0400 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > I tried to make a "Realtek RTL8191SU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 > Network Adapter" work on Debian 10 Live with LXDE, but I couldn't. > Here is what I already have tried: > > 1-. Downloaded package firmware-realtek from package.deb

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 05:00:06 PM Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:49:51 -0400 > > Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > Does it work if I rather put this signature at the end of every > > message? > > > > > > Time zone: GMT-4 > > Months: Ene = Jan ; Abr = Apr ; Ago = Aug ; Dic = D

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

2021-03-11 Thread David
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 13:39, Victor Sudakov wrote: > btrfs thinks that /dev/nvme1n1 has a btrfs: > # btrfs filesystem show > Label: none uuid: 3414ae53-f3d4-43ea-bb88-ffefc9bc86f6 > Total devices 1 FS bytes used 1.05TiB > devid1 size 2.00TiB used 1.33TiB path /dev/nvme0n1 >

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:49:51 -0400 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > Does it work if I rather put this signature at the end of every > message? > > Time zone: GMT-4 > Months: Ene = Jan ; Abr = Apr ; Ago = Aug ; Dic = Dec Actually, the time zone is redundant, as it is indicated in the time/date stam

How to make btrfs forget a disk?

2021-03-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, btrfs thinks that /dev/nvme1n1 has a btrfs: # btrfs filesystem show Label: none uuid: 3414ae53-f3d4-43ea-bb88-ffefc9bc86f6 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 1.05TiB devid1 size 2.00TiB used 1.33TiB path /dev/nvme0n1 Label: none uuid: 38f74bc8-465d-4866-8ec1-3a1

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

2021-03-11 Thread IL Ka
> > 1-. Downloaded package firmware-realtek from package.debian.org. > 2-. Booted Debian Live. > 3-. Copied package from hard disk to the desktop (apt complains when > I load it directly). > 4-. Executed: sudo apt install firmware-realtek > 5-. Executed: sudo depmod -a > 6-. Executed: sudo modprobe

How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
Hello. I tried to make a "Realtek RTL8191SU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter" work on Debian 10 Live with LXDE, but I couldn't. Here is what I already have tried: 1-. Downloaded package firmware-realtek from package.debian.org. 2-. Booted Debian Live. 3-. Copied package from hard disk

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:25:45 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > > facebook I do not know > > Several months ago FB turned nearly useless with sloth. I have a > sense what happened is it started screening everything for poten

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread peter
P.s. I added this stanza to host:/e/n/i . # An interface for subnet to qemu guest. auto qemunic allow-hotplug qemunic iface qemunic inet static address 10.0.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Not guest:/e/n/i . Thanks,... P. -- cell: +1 236 464 1479

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:01:01 +0300 > DHCP is an option for a network configuration, not a requirement. >From the qemu manual. peter@joule:/home/peter/MY$ man qemu-system-i386 | grep DHCP Specifies the client hostname reported by the built-in DHCP

netboot debian-installer kernel too old

2021-03-11 Thread Anhu
Hi, installing bullseye via network fails since the (directory named) _current_ debian-installer at http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/linux is a kernel 5.9.0-4-amd64: # file linux linux: Linux kernel x86 boot executabl

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Charles Curley
On 21 Ventôse an 229 de la Révolution 12:32:01 -0600 David Wright wrote: > One small point: timezones are a great help in making the time > relevant. I agree on language, no bother. Hey, we've even had one > person using the French Revolutionary Calendar. Anyone have any problems with the Mayan

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2021-03-11 22:01 (UTC+0100): > facebook I do not know Several months ago FB turned nearly useless with sloth. I have a sense what happened is it started screening everything for potential to censo

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread deloptes
William Torrez Corea wrote: > The problem occur when i execute different process at the same time. In > this case i execute the following program: firefox, facebook, libreoffice. the partitioning looks normal. you better post output of top. it gives more information related to applications. face

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 12:30:43 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-11 at 12:10, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11 2021 at 10:40, wrote: > > > >> I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If > >> I want to find the original email which might have more con

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 15:12, escribió: > Yes, especially the Time zone. The months I can probably figure out. El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 15:24, David Wright () escribió: > No need for the months. People rarely post replies to such old messages. > As for inserting it manually, the disadvantage

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 13:20:49 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: > S.ficheros bloques de 1K Usados Disponibles Uso% Montado en > /dev/sda1 23898960 17317344 5344576 77% / > /dev/sda7188826821568 1752732 2% /tmp > /dev/sda59545920 1849604

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 14:51, David Wright () escribió: > Take the case where partition E: contains the users' home > directories for users foo and bar. Foo's video collection > in E:/foo/Videos/ eventually grows so large that it has to > be hived off onto a separate device, F: is assigned to it

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 14:49:51 (-0400), Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 14:30, escribió: > > I can live with that ;-) > > El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 14:30, escribió: > > Yes that works for me, but I can live with the Spanish, as well. > > El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 14:32 (G

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread William Torrez Corea
S.ficheros bloques de 1K Usados Disponibles Uso% Montado en sysfs 00 0- /sys proc 00 0- /proc udev 19511200 1951120 0% /dev devpts 00 0

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 01:49:51 PM Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > Does it work if I rather put this signature at the end of every message? -- Time zone: GMT-4 Months: Ene = Jan ; Abr = Apr ; Ago = Aug ; Dic = Dec Yes, especially the Time zone. The months I can probably figure out.

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
William Torrez Corea wrote: > My hard drive use the following amount in space: > > udev 2.0G 0% > tmpfs 381M 6% > /dev/sda1 5.5G 77% > tmpfs 2.0G 2% > tmpfs 5.3M 1% > tmpfs 2.1G 0% > /dev/sda7 1.8G 2% > /dev/sda5 7.4G 21% > /dev/sda8 88G 39% > tmpfs 404M 1% > We don't know what's mounted in t

How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread William Torrez Corea
My hard drive use the following amount in space: udev 2.0G 0% tmpfs 381M 6% /dev/sda1 5.5G 77% tmpfs 2.0G 2% tmpfs 5.3M 1% tmpfs 2.1G 0% /dev/sda7 1.8G 2% /dev/sda5 7.4G 21% /dev/sda8 88G 39% tmpfs 404M 1% Actually i upgraded my operating system to Debian 10.8 released. *Debian 4.19.160-2 (20

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Mar 2021 at 15:35:07 (-0400), Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > It is more than looks. In Unix filesystems disks/volumes/partitions are > > "mounted" into the main file system at some arbitrary "mount point" and > > thus the filesystem encompasses all mounted devices. With DOS, all > > let

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 14:30, escribió: > I can live with that ;-) El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 14:30, escribió: > Yes that works for me, but I can live with the Spanish, as well. Thanks El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 14:32 (GMT-4), David Wright () escribió:[1] > One small point: timezones are a gr

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:35:44PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Thanks. So really the complaint is just that dpkg -S operates on the > paths of files as packaged, whereas type -p yields canonical paths, > I assume. It'll search through the directories in PATH, in order, and use the first one that

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 16:09:40 (+1100), David wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 14:52, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Mar 2021 at 17:45:48 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > dpkg -S =foo > > > Sorry, but we're not all familiar with the construct "=foo" > > as interpreted by zsh, oops, Z

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 17:42:48 (+), Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 13:25 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > 11 mar 2021 10:40, wrote:[1] > > > I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If > > > I want to > > > find the original email which might have more context

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:25:08 PM Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > 11 mar 2021 10:40, wrote:[1] > > > I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If I > > want to find the original email which might have more context, that is > > very helpful. > > Let me see. Does this [1

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:10:30 PM Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11 2021 at 10:40, wrote: > > I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If I > > want to find the original email which might have more context, that is > > very helpful. > > I could try but it i

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
El jue, 11 mar 2021 a las 13:31, The Wanderer () escribió: > For myself, that wouldn't bother me at all. I've seen attribution lines > in less-recognizable languages, and since all the key information is > still there and can be parsed with reasonably minimal effort, it serves > the purpose just fi

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 07:25:30AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > All the QEMU documentation I've found focusses on DHCP. Imagine the > guest system tries to set a static address and QEMU offers DHCP. Seems > unlikely to succeed. DHCP is an option for a network configuration, not

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 13:25 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > 11 mar 2021 10:40, wrote:[1] > > I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If > > I want to > > find the original email which might have more context, that is very > > helpful. > > Let me see. Does this [1] wo

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-11 at 12:10, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11 2021 at 10:40, wrote: > >> I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If >> I want to find the original email which might have more context, >> that is very helpful. > > I could try but it is more problema

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
11 mar 2021 10:40, wrote:[1] > I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If I want to > find the original email which might have more context, that is very helpful. Let me see. Does this [1] work for you?

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
On Thu, Mar 11 2021 at 10:40, wrote: > I would suggest that you leave the date and hour, also, please. If I want to > find the original email which might have more context, that is very helpful. I could try but it is more problematic for quick answers since I have the interface in Spanish, unles

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> And oh, please: drop those whitespaces off file and directory names. This > makes teaching shell scripting to newbies a really #@%*&$¡~ chore. Unless > you want newbies to not learn scripting [1]. On the flip side, it teaches good practices, compared to the all too common scripts using un-quoted

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread peter
Reco, Thanks for the reply. > In this case QEMU uses built-in DHCP server to provide 10.0.2/24 network > to the guest OS. If you need another network it should be changed in > QEMU's commandline. Thanks. I'm trying to set a _static_ address for the guest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_i

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 07:30:02 AM Brian wrote: > On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 07:59:27 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > Brian () wrote: > > > Please would you not remove the attribution when you quote a mail? > > > > Sure. Like this? Or should I leave the date and hour too? > > Thanks; much

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 07:48:14AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:24:25AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And oh, please: drop those whitespaces off file and directory names. This > > makes teaching shell scripting to newbies a really #@%*&$¡~ chore. Unless > > you want

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

2021-03-11 Thread songbird
Marco Möller wrote: > On 10.03.21 19:28, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > (...) >> I don't think there is a Debian DVD iso I can use to install Debian >> Bullseye. >> I think I'll have to install Buster and then switch to Bullseye. >> Is there a better option? > > To my knowledge, there is a Bulleye i

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-11 Thread songbird
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: >> Your message to which I am replying contains no HTML. >> >> Likewise the previous one, which is why I wrote "Thank you. That works." > > Ok. Thank you too. Have a good day. thank you both. makes it much easier to read to not have extra included at the bottom. :)

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:24:25AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > And oh, please: drop those whitespaces off file and directory names. This > makes teaching shell scripting to newbies a really #@%*&$¡~ chore. Unless > you want newbies to not learn scripting [1]. > > Cheers > > [1] The generic "

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 07:59:27 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > Brian () wrote: > > Please would you not remove the attribution when you quote a mail? > > Sure. Like this? Or should I leave the date and hour too? Thanks; much better. Personally, I would add the date and hour, but that could

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
Brian () wrote: > Please would you not remove the attribution when you quote a mail? Sure. Like this? Or should I leave the date and hour too?

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> If that type of mark is possible in your environment, then no, this > shouldn't break anything. > > However, as far as I'm aware, there is no non-file-manager-specific > "hidden" attribute for an *nix filesystem. The traditional way to make > most *nix programs treat a file as hidden is to rename

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 07:11:52 -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > Hint: you are already doing that, Gmail just hides the quotes for you. > > I do not always let the whole quote there, > as in this message, for example. I did it > at the start of the thread only to give some context. > > Than

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Hint: you are already doing that, Gmail just hides the quotes for you. I do not always let the whole quote there, as in this message, for example. I did it at the start of the thread only to give some context. Thanks for the hint, though. Gmail does hide the quotes, no matter how long they ar

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > > I like to know at hand what file is on which disk. > > > > That used to work for A: vs C: back in the days of floppys, but what > > part of "E:" tells you which disk it is? At best you get to assume that > > E: and D: are different disks, but the names don't tell

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-10 at 21:22, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: >> I don't see why that would come up in this case. >> >> In the model I described, the original paths which you found >> confusing are all still there, and anything which wants to find >> things under them can continue to use them. >> >> All th

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > To whomever tries that approach, my advice would be to have a long look > at all the botches common destop environments managed to do while trying > to internationalise directories beneath a user's home. > > I mean: those things like "Desktop", which, if you do a Germ

Re: Finding related package for bug report regarding display output

2021-03-11 Thread IL Ka
> > > > since 26th of February I have problems with the DisplayPort outputs > > of my Lenovo ThinkPad T470p. If I use the notebooks output I can get > > one external monitor to function but daisy chaining does not work. If > > I use the output of the docking station, the external monitors do not >

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:03:00PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: [...] > Well, if all you want is to be able to have more "newbie-friendly" > descriptive names of the directories, it might be possible to achieve > something like that by the simple addition of a collection of symlinks; > just symlink

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:01:29PM -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > I think all these shortened names derive from a time when computing > > resources were limited. If you're using an 80x25 terminal over at 50 > > bits per second to a time-shared mainframe, it's more comfortable to > > type "/u

Re: Finding related package for bug report regarding display output

2021-03-11 Thread Joe
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:19:50 +0100 Max Görner wrote: > Hello, > > since 26th of February I have problems with the DisplayPort outputs > of my Lenovo ThinkPad T470p. If I use the notebooks output I can get > one external monitor to function but daisy chaining does not work. If > I use the output

Re: Booting is frozen on GDM Firmware problem

2021-03-11 Thread arnuld
I used these ISOs to install: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/bt-dvd/ https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/bullseye_di_alpha3+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:35:58PM -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > Here's one source of breakage I encountered a few times because of this [good example of collateral damage from usrmerge] > Yes, before every possible bug derived from that change is corrected, > you could use some sort path

Re: Plasma can be a lightweight

2021-03-11 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2021-03-10 06:23 (UTC-0500): >> Here's a simple look at RAM before and after first launching IceWM, then >> rebooting, then a freshly installed Plasma session on an old single core PC >> that >> had had only KDE3 and IceWM on TW. >> # inxi -CGIMy >> Machine: >> Type: De