Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-02 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 4/1/19 8:05 PM, Mike Bird wrote: Anyone using Devuan in production will, like us, have frozen updates for now. This situation cannot persist long. If Devuan/VUA cannot quickly prove itself worthy of trust we too will have to rebuild our systems, and in doing so migrate away from Devuan.

Re: [DNG] suspicious firefox behaviour

2019-01-31 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/31/19 3:00 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have firefox up with a number of tabs. I shut wifi off on my Purism laptop by shutting off power to the radio. I start up a new tab by clicking on '+'. I ask to look at file:///home/hendrik by typing in the url bar. Nothing happens. It's frozen. I try

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie + Huawei USB modems

2018-11-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/28/18 2:53 PM, ael wrote: I just dug out one of my old dongles and plugged it into a debian testing laptop. The mode switch seems to be automatic, which is what I remembered, and someone else said had been true of recent kernels. Here is an extract from dmesg: Very good. Will test it

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie + Huawei USB modems

2018-11-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/28/18 11:41 AM, Rick Moen wrote: I haven't read any of those in detail. I just wanted to illustrate that you can find _possibly_ promising coverage of Linux support for, e.g., the Huawei E3372 by Web-searching for 'Huawei E3372 Linux' (and then, of course, favouring more-clueful sites

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie + Huawei USB modems

2018-11-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/27/18 8:08 PM, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: __ It is a while ago that I struggled with a USB modem but your device should be recognized by your system (supported since 2.6.18). A old bug i found was that usbstorage is too fast for usbswitch. The remedy would be to create

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie + Huawei USB modems

2018-11-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/22/18 4:28 PM, ael wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 03:10:15PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: What is needed to install so that Devuan Jessie recognizes Huawei modems: - Huawei Mobile Connect - 3G modem (Wintendo sees it as such) - Huawei USB modem E3372 4G - Huawei Mobile Wifi router

[DNG] Devuan Jessie + Huawei USB modems

2018-11-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hello all, What is needed to install so that Devuan Jessie recognizes Huawei modems: - Huawei Mobile Connect - 3G modem (Wintendo sees it as such) - Huawei USB modem E3372 4G - Huawei Mobile Wifi router E5573C 4G Any good experience with those? Seems that those only support Wintendo and Mac.

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??

2018-11-19 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/18/18 2:28 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: 2. What about local compilations of various 3rd party software that usually go to /usr/local/bin, sbin, lib, ... in case of merger will they all go to the root filesystem? More potential trouble? Yes/No? Tnx. ..you want these on its own disk, or at

Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??

2018-11-17 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/17/18 3:18 PM, Didier Kryn wrote:     The advantage of separating /usr is it can be mounted after boot. /bin and /sbin (and /lib) contain the critical applications (and library) necessary to boot the system, and they are, by necessity, part of the root filesystem. Merging /usr

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-11-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/17/18 1:19 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hi all, I recently installed Devuan Jessie on a computer for presentations via large TV. And that machine is also directly wired in a small LAN to another box that runs some old Ubuntu (probably 12.04 or so, it is also just to tell the audience

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-31 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/28/18 3:14 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: I don't think you need SSH when using VNC. I just happen to have used it only with SSH (and RDP). Sure. I'll test it more. Tnx! Misko ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-25 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/23/18 1:49 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: For access to other Linux boxen you may have to convince their sshd to do X11 forwarding (probably enabled by default) but once that's working you should have no problem showing their desktop on your Devuan machine using Remmina over SSH. Olaf,

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-25 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/23/18 1:45 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hendrik, both boxes came to the club installed with Window$, and I have to keep them that way ..easy now, if these has lawful copies of Wintendo installed, you _can_ keep them that way. Now if these are the pirated ones you spoke about, any judge

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/22/2018 02:38 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Err, how old do you think the people who developed the "Internet" are? Don't assume they don't have capable minds. We live in a world they built. I'm 72. Still capable mentally, though I need a cane to walk long distances. Don't need a cane to

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/22/2018 02:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: alternatives. As I said I have two machines there, one is wired to a big TV so they who sit in a last row can listen & watch. What is the other one wired to? A local small display? Both of them have their own small displays, and the faster box

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/20/2018 04:31 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: It's a seniors club, 70-75 at average. Some of them are more-less fluent in (pirated) Window$ -based mouse clicking to browse the Net, email, and office. So my point is to show them that there are free & unrestricted alternatives. As I said I have

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/20/2018 02:42 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..http://www.pclinuxos.com/ has a reputation for being the easiest distro for your kinda newbie users. But it is not Devuan. ;o) ..https://www.qubes-os.org/ is also not Devuan, but an excellent way to set up Devuan safely and securely in, er,

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-20 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/17/2018 10:16 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: For Linux stuff I've become somewhat fond of X2go Will check it. Tnx. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-20 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/17/2018 09:10 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: You may end up with network delays for systems that are designed with the speed of a local video display in mind. Well I am not in a hurry. I would make a try in any case before the public demo, so if it does not work in acceptable way, I would

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-20 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/17/2018 05:14 PM, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: The easiest way would be to make a connection with ssh  -X or -Y which enables X-forwarding. You then can start a individual X program from the commandline but also the complete WM. Perfectly showing how capable linux is in use.

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-20 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/17/2018 03:18 PM, terryc wrote: Machines can ping each other now, so besides introducing Devuan, I also want to introduce Ubuntu via Devuan by some kind of remote GUI access or like. Suggestions? Please note that there is no Internet access to those boxes, so anything needed for each comp

[DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-17 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, I recently installed Devuan Jessie on a computer for presentations via large TV. And that machine is also directly wired in a small LAN to another box that runs some old Ubuntu (probably 12.04 or so, it is also just to tell the audience what Linux is about). Machines can ping each

[DNG] Thunar issue (was: Re: New user of Devuan)

2018-07-26 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 07/25/2018 12:27 PM, aitor_czr wrote: By the way, I have also noticed here that inserting a CD/DVD in this Devuan installation does not mount the medium automatically, neither it opens a file manager. How to make it the same way as it does in Ubuntu/Debian? Tnx. It seems to me that this

Re: [DNG] New user of Devuan

2018-07-24 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 07/23/2018 12:56 PM, aitor_czr wrote: Hi, El 23/07/18 a las 10:51, Arnt Karlsen escribió: On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:20:11 +0200, Didier wrote in message <939d9753-debc-b146-c57b-4757a7e1c...@in2p3.fr>: Le 22/07/2018 à 16:59, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:57:04 +0200,

Re: [DNG] New user of Devuan

2018-07-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 07/23/2018 12:56 PM, aitor_czr wrote: Hi, El 23/07/18 a las 10:51, Arnt Karlsen escribió: On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:20:11 +0200, Didier wrote in message <939d9753-debc-b146-c57b-4757a7e1c...@in2p3.fr>: Le 22/07/2018 à 16:59, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:57:04 +0200,

[DNG] New user of Devuan

2018-07-21 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi, I suppose that this list is the right place to ask for help related to Devuan. (If it is not, let me know. Tnx.) Recently I installed Devuan Jessie live to a spare machine, just to test it for a while, since I wasn't much happy after upgrading some of my systems from Debian Wheezy LTS