[DNG] Clicking website wasRe: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread terryc
On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:49:17 +0200 tito via Dng wrote: > Everything works as expected and seems to be > faster (placebo effect?) in the xfce desktop. > The only little problem is a clicking noise > in the speakers when opening some websites > in firefox even with volume set to zero or disabled.

Re: [DNG] Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread Jason Martin via Dng
On 10/24/21 11:49 AM, tito via Dng wrote: The only little problem is a clicking noise in the speakers when opening some websites in firefox even with volume set to zero or disabled. Couldn't figure out a solution yet. Maybe unrelated but my dog does not like the bell from the speaker I removed

[DNG] [devuan] Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread Subscribe to receive announcements about Devuan
Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers, Devuan Developers are pleased to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera 4.0 as the project's newest stable release. This is the result of lots of painstaking work by the team and extensive testing by the wider Devuan community.

[DNG] Why do I need libselinux1?

2021-10-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
Hi all, when I switched to Chimaera, one of the difficulties was an /etc/selinux directory left over since several years ago. After boot with the new system, X didn't want to start. It said something about selinux, so I found the leftover and startx worked again. Now I checked what selinux

Re: [DNG] Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread tito via Dng
Hi, upgraded my desktop/workstation from beowulf to chimaera. It is a rather complex setup with several raid arrays (I like them and it is a good training for using them in work setups). Upgrade went smoothly but with several iterations of apt upgrade / apt dist-upgrade. I was surprised by seeing

Re: [DNG] Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread Jason Martin via Dng
First saw Linux when using DOS version of AOL in the early 90's. Became a heavy user when Windows 95 arrived. Since about 2016, I used OpenIndiana, Haiku and a lot of OpenBSD versions. Chimaera 4.0 up and running now on one of my machines. It is running smoothly. Thank you to no end with the

[DNG] etckeeper

2021-10-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:52:05PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Steve Litt writes: > > > After that, take a backup of the new system including /etc and > > $HOME, then restore *strategic* config files from /etc/ and ~ and > > ~/.config. By strategic, I mean configs that

Re: [DNG] FHS deficiencies: Was: Er, Not that way ? .Re: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi spiralofhope, spiralofhope writes: > [...] > It got horrifying when I kept installing, trying, and uninstalling > software.. most of which left behind dotfiles and dotdirs that may or > may not remind me of the name of some program. (I hated wondering if > some object was necessary or just

Re: [DNG] etckeeper: was: Er, Not that way ? .Re: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread o1bigtenor via Dng
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 1:01 AM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > o1bigtenor writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:47 AM Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng < > dng@lists.dyne.org> > > wrote: > > > >> [... illustrating etckeeper commit messages ...] > > > > Mr Olaf > > (and the rest of devuan land) > > > > I

Re: [DNG] FHS deficiencies: Was: Er, Not that way ? .Re: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Didier, Didier Kryn writes: > Le 24/10/2021 à 01:22, Steve Litt a écrit: >> At this point I can't be sure because I run a rolling release, but I >> think ~/Music, Documents and ~/Videos were put there by the distro --- > > These are freedesktop crap. You can remove them by editing >

Re: [DNG] FHS deficiencies: Was: Er, Not that way ? .Re: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Steve, Steve Litt writes: > Simon said on Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:00:26 +0100 > >>Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: >> > Might I suggest $HOME/bin :-) ~/bin isn't ideal for two reasons: 1) It's integrated with all sorts of config, cache, and who knows what, and can

Re: [DNG] FHS deficiencies: Was: Er, Not that way ? .Re: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 24/10/2021 à 01:22, Steve Litt a écrit : > At this point I can't be sure because I run a rolling release, but I > think ~/Music, Documents and ~/Videos were put there by the distro --- These are freedesktop crap. You can remove them by editing $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs . Some applications

Re: [DNG] etckeeper: was: Er, Not that way ? .Re: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
o1bigtenor writes: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:47 AM Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng > wrote: > >> [... illustrating etckeeper commit messages ...] > > Mr Olaf > (and the rest of devuan land) > > I found apt-cacher-ng to be a useful tool in tracking updates and in > minimizing my bandwidth. > > Would