Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-21 Thread Steven Mainor
se do reply. Well I can say that I have a ryzen 7 2700X in my desktop and I am very happy with it. I don't know what question specifically I can answer for you but I have no complaints about it. I would look for a motherboard with components(sound, sensors, network controllers) that are we

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-16 Thread Steven Mainor
, Not the CPU, correct? Or am I misunderstanding the terminology? Obviously neither is ideal but is either less secure? --- Steven Mainor --- Steven Mainor On 2021-01-16 12:52, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:25:10PM -0500, Steven Mainor wrote: I have a laptop with a QCA9377

Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-16 Thread Steven Mainor
card that doesn't require binary drivers? And barring that, what is the best wifi(N?) card I can buy that doesn't require closed source drivers/firmware? -- Steven Mainor 0x9477C19B.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Steven Mainor
I missed this question in my last email. Apologies. What is your computer? It is an Asus X470 Motherboard, AMD 2700x Processor --- Steven Mainor On 2021-01-02 03:24, Steven Mainor wrote: Why? See my earlier email. What Debian? Debian 10? Or 9? I'm mainly looking for options. What Linux

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Steven Mainor
? --- Steven Mainor On 2021-01-01 15:03, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-01 10:06, Steven Mainor wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a 6 or 8 port SATA hardware raid controller that will hopefully be supported by the kernel and/or open source drivers to put in my desktop computer. Any

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread Steven Mainor
or Ubuntu from a pen-drive) and access data on the "array". And FYI most of the time I would still boot my computer from the single SSD that my OS is installed on. --- Steven Mainor On 2021-01-01 13:06, Steven Mainor wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a 6 or 8 port SATA hard

recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-01 Thread Steven Mainor
I'm looking for recommendations for a 6 or 8 port SATA hardware raid controller that will hopefully be supported by the kernel and/or open source drivers to put in my desktop computer. Any input welcome, thanks. -- Steven Mainor 0x9477C19B.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc

Re: Tiling display support

2020-12-20 Thread Steven Mainor
sync). If you aren't too attached to LG there are other manufacturers that have larger screens with the specs you requested. --- Steven Mainor 0x9477C19B.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Tiling display support

2020-12-19 Thread Steven Mainor
that I don't know anything about MST or SST. Hopefully someone can help you more. I'm interested to learn what you figure out. --- Steven Mainor 0x9477C19B.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Tiling display support

2020-12-18 Thread Steven Mainor
the same they are very related. You would need a 150hz display to take full advantage of a video game being rendered at 150FPS, for example. --- Steven Mainor On 2020-12-18 17:55, deloptes wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: Does someone run desktop with 4k screen and high frame rate (150 fps

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-17 Thread Steven Mainor
t password or not. I did not try installing Mate but It is worth mentioning that the installer asks for a root password long before it asks which desktop to install. I hope this is helpful to someone. --- Steven Mainor On 2020-12-16 05:09, Keith Bainbridge wrote: I was not offered to set a r

Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card

2020-04-27 Thread Steven Mainor
they were under developed but that simply isn't the case anymore in my opinion. And at least for me supporting a company that absolutely refuses to cooperate with open source communities (Nvidia) when there is a good alternative like AMD is hard to justify. --- Steven Mainor On 2020-04-26 05:46

Re: August 10, 2019

2019-08-11 Thread Steven Mainor
No ants yet. I have occasionally had problems with other types of bugs. But that is to be expected with any piece of software. -- Steven Mainor On August 11, 2019 11:36:28 AM EDT, Andy Smith wrote: >On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 10:53:29PM +, Randy Demerchant wrote: >>  I like to k

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-09 Thread Steven Mainor
I bought a turris omnia router recently and so far it has worked out pretty well. -- Steven Mainor On August 9, 2019 12:59:34 PM EDT, Reco wrote: >On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 06:16:21PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> John Hasler wrote: >> >> > Steven Mainor write

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Steven Mainor
It looks like there are some ESPRESSOBIN v7s on Amazon right now. -- Steven Mainor On August 8, 2019 11:16:44 PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Disregarding OSHW I agree that above options are good highlights. >> Additionally I suggest Olimex A64-Olinuxino

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-08 Thread Steven Mainor
So is the general consensus that there are no modern SBCs powerful enough to run nextcloud on (apache, mariadb, php) or a mail server (typical postfix, dovecot, opendkim, SpamAssassin etc... ) for a handful of people? That seems hard to believe. -- Steven Mainor On August 8, 2019 12:14:23 PM

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread Steven Mainor
of ram is qualified to be called a "server" For my needs, I doubt anything more than a modern single board computer is necessary. At least as far as compute power is concerned. -- Steven Mainor On August 7, 2019 10:53:52 AM EDT, deloptes wrote: Steven Mainor wrote: I would like to keep

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread Steven Mainor
://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/blob/master/HARDWARE/A64-OLinuXino/A64-OlinuXino_Rev_C.pdf -- Steven Mainor On August 7, 2019 4:21:25 AM EDT, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >Quoting Reco (2019-08-07 08:53:52) >> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 01:29:21AM -0400, Steven Mainor wrote: >> > I'm looking for advi

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread Steven Mainor
Thanks for the reply. Those seem like options to consider. The pre-orders for the helios4 seem to be sold out for now. -- Steven Mainor On August 7, 2019 2:53:52 AM EDT, Reco wrote: >On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 01:29:21AM -0400, Steven Mainor wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm look

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread Steven Mainor
You are correct. That was an oversight. Of all the items on that page I could probably afford the screwdriver and the heatsinks. I would like to keep the budget under $500 not including the hard drive(s) I already have drives. Less is better. -- Steven Mainor On August 7, 2019 1:52:15 AM EDT

Server hardware advice.

2019-08-06 Thread Steven Mainor
LIME2 but more powerful or is there a better option I haven't read about yet? -- Steven Mainor

Re: Compatible laptops

2017-11-11 Thread Steven Mainor
Whatever you end up getting I would suggest you get something with an Atheros wifi card. I have had the best lock with Atheros and if I'm not mistaken there are official open source drivers for Atheros. -- Steven Mainor On November 11, 2017 7:21:38 PM EST, Maureen L Thomas <sil

Re: Does Debian allow user upgrade system from LTS to the latest system directly?

2017-11-02 Thread Steven Mainor
Can you explain what top-posting is? I am unfamiliar with that term. -- Steven Mainor On November 2, 2017 1:38:05 AM EDT, "Roberto C. Sánchez" <robe...@debian.org> wrote: >On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:34:27PM +0800, Elof Huang wrote: >> How do those people upgrading syst

Re: Did I blow my processor?

2017-02-20 Thread Steven Mainor
for. -- Steven Mainor On February 20, 2017 4:41:30 PM EST, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: >Dennis Wicks composed on 2017-02-20 15:00 (UTC-0600): > >> I built myself another computer and it wouldn't boot up. No >> messages or anything. I finally discovered that I misse

Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-06 Thread Steven Mainor
I think he just meant 'In case you didn't want to read my previous paragraph, a reboot fixed it.' On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 10:26 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, February 05, 2017 09:55:14 AM Tony Baldwin wrote: > > TL;DR: A reboot fixed me...I almost feel I've been jettisoned into >

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

2016-12-19 Thread Steven Mainor
I realize it can sometimes be frustrating to learn new things. But I assure you Linux distributions usually handle installing software differently for a reason. Installing software can damage or compromise systems very easily. Thats why Debain, its derivatives and many other Linux based operating

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

2016-12-03 Thread Steven Mainor
<m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: >deloptes: >> Steven Mainor wrote: >> >>> I don't know if this helps answer #3 or not. I have ran Debian from >a >>> microSD flash card before but the card reader was attached via USB. >>> >>> It

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

2016-12-02 Thread Steven Mainor
I don't know if this helps answer #3 or not. I have ran Debian from a microSD flash card before but the card reader was attached via USB. It didn't last very long before the flash card degraded. I think running an operating system on flash used up the read/write cycles too quickly. I eventually