[DNG] Init respawns - was: Be prepared for the fall of systemd

2022-08-03 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Two empire falls recorded during the last two millenia it are the fall of the mighty Roman Empire and that of the Ottoman Empire. Both were extremely powerful influencing most of the worlds of their times, but they fell. What I expect from systemd and its adoption by many distributions is to

[DNG] Lennart now working for Microsoft

2022-07-12 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Let me understand... So, this excellent coder first grabs the opportunity offered to him by RedHat, and now, after the latter made him rich, he is leaving them! Please, anyone explain to me, how can anyone extend a day beyond the usual 24 hours? Systemd is not a simple game like the many one can

[DNG] Question about the text editor named medit.

2022-01-05 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Going to packages/debian.org I found other packages similar to medit like bluefish and jedit. I tried jedit first, but its font rendering is aggressive on my aging eyes and resorted to using bluefish which has its font rendering more comparable to medit's. That is the beauty of open

[DNG] Question about the text editor named medit.

2022-01-04 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Upgrading to chimeara removed medit, a text editor I used for writing code and any other plain text document. I could not install it and it seems it has been removed from the repository. Searching online for a recently updated source tarball, I did not find any. It seems it has been

[DNG] snetaid debs...

2021-11-23 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Quote: Aitor wrote: "Being about five years on from what was your simple-netaid project, which has substantially evolved since then hoping that the outcome will be for the good of the project, the idea of reviving both your backend and gui in free pascal, but this time drawn upon libnetaid and

[DNG] snetaid debs...

2021-10-19 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi Golinux, If Devuan users have other alternatives to my project, it is a pleasure to know. My current pleasure is being able to still use Devuan without systemd which used to frequently crash my machines. I have learnt, and in this, you were a VERY GOOD TEACHER, that having a too fat ego, does

[DNG] snetaid debs...

2021-10-18 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear Devuan Developers and Users, First a well deserved thanks goes to all developers who dedicate their precious time to the development of Devuan. Second, my thanks goes to all users. The name "snetaid" made me remember of my now defunct project. Searching on the project's git repository I

[DNG] FSF and human rights

2021-05-15 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
The rise of the new inquisition as a respondent has aptly described is worrying. A person loses all their merits as a consequence of one error, controversial opinion or belief. An intellectually brilliant person like Stallman is more than one opinion or belief. The several decades they have lived

Re: [DNG] Overlay filesystems and readonly partition mounts.

2020-12-25 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, I read the suggested shell script to provide an overlay filesystem in Raspbian and found nothing that can damage my setup. I will use that script. All file writes will directed to RAM. Edward -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) If

[DNG] Overlay filesystems and readonly partition mounts.

2020-12-25 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, I would like to harden my Raspberry Pi music player to prevent filesystem damage on power failures. Reading about how to boot the Pi in readonly mode, I found there is a script which can do the job without much bothering on my part. However, it is better to find a custom solution rather

[DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-12-13 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, After the modesetting issue stopped manifesting itself for some days, it started again, and now, it is almost happening with every system boot. As the sceen is completely unreadable with unaligned pixels, I tried the modprobe command without a display and paying attention not to make

[DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Huh! Geekiness, in some circumstances, can mean lots of wealth! I has happened to some: I cannot blame them for trying their luck. Cheers. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Lately, I am noticing Waterfox has lost the ability to display my add-ons, which are AdGuard AdBlocker and NoScript. I had about two more in the past, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to have any that work. My preferences are an ad-free internet experience, or at least, if not

[DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-10-24 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, The issue seems to have been caused by the laptop's battery electronics. I removed the battery and reconfigured the kernel package to rebuild initrd.img. Rebooting did not reproduce the issue. However, I need several days to confirm the issue has truly been resolved. Thanks.

[DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-10-23 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Lately, on an HP Probook 4540s, while booting Devuan Boewulf the screen becomes completely unreabled with unsynchronized lines of pixels. I will not be surprised if this is some sick joke by HP, to force their customers to buy new, but I do not know if this is the case with what I am

[DNG] 'apt-get update' fails on Devuan Boewulf.

2020-06-15 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, Lately, when I attempt to update Devuan Boewulf, apt-get fails complaining that I should explicitly accept the repositories. Reading 'man apt-secure' talks about changes in Debian's security which has the aim to reinforce package security further. While this is good news, it is proving also

[DNG] Boewulf: at XFCE4 start, mouse ptr freezes for ~2mins.

2020-04-29 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi Everyone, On Boewult when XFCE4 starts, the mouse pointer remains unresponsive for about 2 minutes. This is a touchpad mouse on HP Probook 4540s. The only module that seems to be related that is loaded is psmouse. This is from dmesg: # dmesg | grep mouse [2.51] mousedev: PS/2 mouse

[DNG] What an Ad hominem!

2020-04-19 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, SystemD detractors may, like myself, be repelled from using it because everytime they installed a systemd based distribution, it always greeted them with a system-wide freeze. Microsoft Windows has solved that issue of system-wide freezes since almost two decades. On my music player based on

[DNG] Video modesetting issue under Boewulf.

2020-04-17 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, While trying to boot Boewulf I encountered two or three occasions of a serious video modesetting malfunction the result of which is a completely garbaged display. The display is completely unreadable, although unreadable is not the appropriate term to use as there is nothing that remotely

[DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

2020-04-14 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, I upgraded Ascii to Beowulf and successfully used the new version of Waterfox. However, there are certain issues like a missing copy of dpkg-reconfigure. I also noticed that Beowulf now comes with more stringent security. A side effect of the increased security caused my version of

[DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

2020-04-12 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, I will upgrade to Beowulf. As usual, I will upgrade dpkg, apt, aptitude and the kernel first and then reboot with the new versions. Then, I will do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". If there are more critical packages which need to be upgraded first, please post. The above worked in Debian when

[DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

2020-04-11 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, I tried to extract the contents of the current .tar.gz2 archive in /opt as suggested but failed with the following error: -ERROR- # tar xjf waterfox-current-2020.04.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 . tar: .: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

[DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

2020-04-11 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, I would like to ask whether Devuan and Waterfox are still compatible. Updates of Waterfox are not working. I tried the classic version as the new one may have more issues. The 'old' version of waterfox I am using freezes the mouse pointer on startup. The error is the following:

[DNG] Tried Debian Stretch with systemd out of constrainsts

2020-01-12 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, Thanks for the links. The https://github.com/Ho-Ro/Hantek6022API is a promising resource. My USB oscilloscope is the version succeeding Hantek6022. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Tried Debian Stretch with systemd out of constrainsts

2020-01-11 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, First of all thanks for replying. It seems the driver is installed according to usb-devices. The interesting stanza is the following: T: Bus=07 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 6 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=04b5 ProdID=6cde

[DNG] Tried Debian Stretch with systemd out of constrainsts

2020-01-09 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
These last few days I tried Debian Stretch with systemd on a piece of 'old' hardware. I used Stretch to allow snapd and then openhantek to be installed. The following is my experience: I do not intend to negatively criticise systemd just for the sake of it. I would like to recount my experience,

[DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-12-02 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Inits need to understand unit files, give them that functionality. That is far more efficient compared to what you are doing. Pseudo Code: 1) check for the presence of a unit file 2) if it exists a) branch to function to read unit file and run daemon b) if NOT execute shell script to

[DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-13 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Quote from Bruce Ferrel: "There are actually a couple of ways around the SD wear issue, even though people seem to dearly LOVE SSDs with the exact same issue; 1.) Use a USB drive. 2.) Somewhat more esoteric, PXE boot and run from an NFS image." [/Quote] You are right, people love SD Cards, not

[DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-12 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi all, The Raspberry Pi is very frequency used with an SD Card which is highly intolerant of frequent writes as these are limited. My first SD Card became read only after about six weeks with Devuan running. Using Raspbian, this issue did not repeat itself. Needless to state, although it seems,

[DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-10-27 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi, I have been using the Raspberry Pi for a music player with an IQaudIO DAC PRO card. First, I used Devuan, which very sadly, did not recognize the DAC. After about 2 months of using Devuan, my SDCard, was burnt: no more write cycles were allowed and it become read-only. To correct this, and at

Re: [DNG] ..the D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future ... albeit with broken SSH login

2019-09-28 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Since, some mentioned KDE, I would like to recount my latest experience with it. I was having difficulty with XFCE as its touch pad configuration is very poor. Moving the mouse pointer around was like dragging 100Kg across rough ground! The displacement of the mouse pointer across the screen was

[DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.

2019-08-22 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
As far as I remember, you have to make sure the bootloader's kernel is at a sector that LILO can access. GPT is too new for LILO. You also have to provide space where the bootloader saves its second stage, always if my assumption that it uses the same mechanism used by legacy GRUB, is correct.

[DNG] dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

2019-08-12 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Steve Litt wrote: "Unfortunately, these guys weren't unusual. Way too many programmers, in the name of avoiding reinventing the wheel, integrate somebody else's wheel, when all they needed was an easily available single spoke. You know who suffers? The distro maintainers and the users." That is

[DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
To pay my bills online I use Chromium as I have no other choice. Websites are becoming dictators as to which browser one uses. To do normal browsing, I am using Waterfox which is Firefox without the late many 'cool' additions. This experience is making me nostalgic of the times when I was using

[DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
For the information of everyone: I would like to inform all those concerned that firefox-esr is causing ASCII to freeze. Getting access to a terminal is almost impossible. Yesterday, I had to power off the machine. I did not investigate why the issue is happening as the system became extremely

[DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

2019-06-16 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
I use fsarchiver. The backup is a single very large file that can be restored using the same program. You can even restore a partition to a larger one. Do not backup mounted partitions. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] simple-netaid from scratch

2019-05-19 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Aitor wrote: "We must think on the devuan project, we hate narcissism :)" Narcissism is a delusion; there is nothing to like about it. During youth it prevents sufferers from identifying their weaknesses lowering their chances of success. I am using my version not to stroke my ego; that need to

[DNG] Firefox Quantum 60.6.2esr freezes XFCE on ASCII

2019-05-18 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Firefox ESR is freezing XFCE on ASCII. Getting to Ctrl+Alt+F1 takes many seconds and logging in a terminal also takes very long. I am reluctantly posting this from within Chromium. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] simple-netaid from scratch

2019-05-15 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi Aitor, I, like many other Devuan users, hope that the last crises is over and that it will never happen again. The purpose of replying to your thread is to ask why you are rewriting the backend from the very beginning. Needless to state, I am still using my version of simple-netaid with its

[DNG] Is Beowulf useable?

2019-05-05 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi all, I have a CLI based music player based on Raspberry Pi 3B+ with ASCII installed. Is Beowulf stable enough to be used with a terminal, mpg123 and mplayer? There is no GUI installed. The major problem I am finding with ASCII is not having my Pi DAC PRO recognised notwithstanding all kernel

[DNG] Firefox does not recognize extensions.

2019-05-04 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
The ad-blocking Firefox extensions uBlock Origin, NoScript and the page zooming extension Zoom Page WE no longer work. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Thanks to all.

2019-04-27 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Today, I updated my nephew's computer with Devuan ASCII installed. The update was successful without issues. I think, it is only deserved for all those who work hard to host and set up Devuan mirror servers to be thanked. Thanks a lot. ___ Dng mailing

[DNG] [devuan-dev] Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.

2019-04-24 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
As a Devuan user I suggest the Devuan Administrative Team to consider the thinking of a detailed contingency plan in case of a crises that should include how to deal with internal conflicts and what to do when important servers fail. I would also suggest setting up emergency supplimentary servers

[DNG] New application ready to test: hopman

2019-04-23 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Making it a Debian package should be easy. Use dh_make to create a 'debian' subdirectory with the necessary Debian control files. Then, when that is ready build the debian packages using 'gbp buildpackage'. Both commands should be run in the source's top directory.

[DNG] Please, inform users about the current 'health' of Devuan.

2019-04-19 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Following the last crises in the Administration of Devuan, as a user of Devuan who appreciates init freedom, I am worried. Is the crises over or not? What about the void created by katolaZ? The fact that there are business entities who want init freedom is something of a blessing. I congratulate

[DNG] Way forward

2019-04-11 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
It was surprising to me to read what Jaromil wrote in one of his replies regarding the April Fools prank. In short, the statement was that Devuan takes no responsibility whatever the outcome of its use. Any invester will definitely make a lot of effort to avoid such a possibility that can ruin

[DNG] The 1st Devuan conference kicks off tomorrow afternoon!

2019-04-07 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Would like to read news about the conference. Did it make a difference in the world of Linux or not? Was the message about the advantages of modularity understood/accepted? What about init choice freedom? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] Update on the Green Hat Hackers attack

2019-04-01 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
On 01/04/2019, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 01-04-19 09:03, KatolaZ wrote: >> Dear D1rs, >> >> we have analysed in depth the attack from the "Green Hat Hackers" that >> compromised the Devuan infrastructure in the last hours, and we >> concluded that you all are: >> >>*

[DNG] Devuan on Raspberry Pi 3B+. Sound card driver installation.

2019-03-16 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Searching for installed kernel modules using locate I found the actual modules for the DAC are installed. However, using modprobe did not result in the modules being loaded. Modprobe complained with the error: modprobe: FATAL: module name not found in directory /lib/modules/4.16.12-v8+ After

[DNG] Devuan on Raspberry Pi 3B+. Sound card driver installation.

2019-03-14 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
I have a raspberry Pi with a Pi DAC Pro sound for which there is no driver installed. Searching online takes me to readily prepared operating system images that I do not want to use as I am using Devuan. Does anyone know what I should do to be able to use the Pi DAC Pro sound card under Devuan?

[DNG] Devuan on Raspberry Pi

2019-03-14 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
-- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) If you cannot make abstructions about details you do not understand the concepts underlying them. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] simple-netaid-backend debugged.

2019-03-06 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Hi Everyone, My version of simple-netaid-backend has been debugged to connect when there is only one active wifi hotspot. It was previously failing to connect because there was an error in a while loop which prevented iteration from taking place when there was only one active wifi hotspot.

[DNG] Systemd as tragedy

2019-01-30 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Whether systemd is a tragedy or not, I will not say, but whenever I tried it, I was always greeted with OS crashes. At first, I tried to use it for a media player but, needless to state, the OS crashed for no reason. With an SD card as the storage medium this becomes a nuisance as one has to take

[DNG] Added desktop-live to the install guides

2019-01-01 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
On 02/01/2019, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2019-01-01 21:37, Steve Litt wrote: >> The degree of attentiveness we now >> demand in our workplaces has been a positive trait for only a >> couple centuries, and genetics hasn't caught up. So blame is >> counterproductive. >> > > I beg

[DNG] IceCat

2018-12-25 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
So, this is yet another limited browser that many modern web-sites find repulsive to connect to. It is clear the problem is not the browsers themselves, but economical and political. It is economical, because a browser that is heavily biased towards privacy is detrimental to advertising,

[DNG] Website changes

2018-12-24 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Good, provided an installer is obedient to do what is commanded. What happens when an installer obstinately insists on installing LVM, (ilLogical Volume Management), as it happened to me several times when I was still using Debian, and also when I started to use Devuan? I was left with no choice

[DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-05 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 05/12/2018, Antony Stone wrote: > On Wednesday 05 December 2018 at 17:41:22, Edward Bartolo wrote: > >> Further Optimization: >> >> Is it possible to configure Devuan on Raspberry Pi 3B+, so that, >> bash_history, settings pertaining to bash, and other user >

[DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-05 Thread Edward Bartolo
Further Optimization: Is it possible to configure Devuan on Raspberry Pi 3B+, so that, bash_history, settings pertaining to bash, and other user configuration files from being updated every time such an application is used? If there is some other things I am not aware of, please inform me.

[DNG] [OT] The End of Trust

2018-12-04 Thread Edward Bartolo
On a similar worrying note, my country's government has hired a private company to provide equipment to read and count votes. It is still at trial stage but the opposition is already complaining the software used is giving different results for the same set of votes in different circumstances.

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-03 Thread Edward Bartolo
Nevermind, I found that prepending a symlink with a 'K' in /etc/rcN.d is to disable that script. Thanks everyone, especially Dr Klepp. -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) If you cannot make abstructions about details you do not understand

[DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-03 Thread Edward Bartolo
Running "update-rc.d rsyslog disable 2" resulted in error messages like the following: ERROR MESSAGE: insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) A of script 'rsyslog' overrides LSB defaults B There were four lines with similar text but with A and B as follows: a) A = (3 4 5); B = (2 3 4 5) b) A

[DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-02 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 02/12/2018, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: [...] > > Do not use swap. > Use ramfs for /tmp and /var/tmp. > Turn off logging. > Mount / readonly. > Use "noatime" mountoption. > How can I use ramfs for /tmp and /var/tmp? And, also turn off logging? Can anyone post a sample /etc/fstab as a hint as

[DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

2018-12-02 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi everyone. Recently I have been using a Raspberry Pi 3B, obviously powered with Devuan, to run as music player. Restarting it yesterday, I was dismayed to discover it would not boot properly anymore, with long lists of errors complaining about not being able to write to the SD CARD. The latter

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

2018-11-23 Thread Edward Bartolo
KatolaZ wrote: "Personal insults are not tolerated here." Really?! But YOU CAN INSULT as this mailing list unequivocally proves. The hypocracy is beyond belief. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] no-usr-merged: let's get concrete

2018-11-20 Thread Edward Bartolo
KatoloZ wrote: "We have put together a solution that consists into choosing if you want merged-usr at install time. It's available in the current unstable installer:" Ooooh, not even Einstein could have arrived at that! Very brainy, extremely smart!

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

2018-11-18 Thread Edward Bartolo
So, respondents essentially are writing what I wrote, but in more grandiose writing styles. Instead of appealing to the general and writing in abstruct ways, they choose to write giving endless concrete describtions. Well, Pedagogy, the science of teaching methods, strongly insists on using

[DNG] systemd in sane-backends

2018-11-03 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 03/11/2018, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 10:28:44AM +0100, aitor wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> libsystemd-dev is present in the packaging of sane-backends in both >> jessie >> and ascii. As far as i know, the systemd utility in sane is useful only >> in >> the case of network printers.

[DNG] [SOLVED] bug in simple-netaid building on ascii

2018-11-02 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 02/11/2018, aitor wrote: > Hi again, > > On 11/02/2018 09:17 AM, aitor wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to build simple-netaid-gtk on ascii and i'm getting the >> following error: >> >> /usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/threads.h:661:29: error: cannot convert >> ‘GPrivate’ {aka ‘_GPrivate’}

[DNG] Speak now, or forever hold your peace

2018-10-24 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 24/10/2018, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 08:38:59AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: >> This smells bad, really bad, I dare say, like a putrifying animal. Is >> the difficulty to keep up with startup scripts so great that Devuan >> will have to bow its head to usi

[DNG] Speak now, or forever hold your peace

2018-10-24 Thread Edward Bartolo
This smells bad, really bad, I dare say, like a putrifying animal. Is the difficulty to keep up with startup scripts so great that Devuan will have to bow its head to using a single supported init? This reminds me of systemd. The excuse was, that Debian did not have enough man-power to keep using

[DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Edward Bartolo
Why doesn't Devuan edit sysvinit to use systemd's unit files instead of scripts? That would bypass the entire problem. Those who want to stick to scripts can always direct sysvinit to use scripts instead. An edit/patch would aim to make sysvinit recognise unit files and run scripts when instructed

[DNG] GPL version 2 is a bare license. Recind. (Regarding (future) linux Code of Conduct Bannings).

2018-10-13 Thread Edward Bartolo
Arguing about the subjectivity inherent in interpretation, to defend the use of words, that are either too strong, or plainly meant to insult making manipulation of victims easier to achieve. This is dishonesty of the highest rank. So, someone has the ability to plan, write and debug software that

[DNG] Raspberry Pi 3B+ and Devuan blues....

2018-09-19 Thread Edward Bartolo
It worked, and it worked great! But, I will be sincere, I de-pulsed the installation by removing all pulseaudio components with which the sound was marred with clicking sounds. Thanks to all those who willingly donated some of their time to reply, and also, thanks to the Devuaneers who made the

[DNG] Raspberry Pi 3B+ and Devuan blues....

2018-09-19 Thread Edward Bartolo
lsblk listed two devices. Therefore, I was wrong. I was expecting to have the boot Micro SD Card detected as sda and the USB stick as sdb! Nevertheless, this is not the end of my troubles trying to make my Pi 3B+ see reason and play sound files. Alsamixer is only showing one control, PCM. I am

[DNG] Better late than never

2018-09-18 Thread Edward Bartolo
Quote: "The only existent README file for now was written by Edward Bartolo, and it-s focused to the previous version of simple-netaid, written in C and freepascal. So, it's a bit obsolete. However, the new version of simple-netaid also uses ifupdown, but there is no CLI version fo

[DNG] Raspberry Pi 3B+ and Devuan blues....

2018-09-18 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, I installed Devuan ASCII on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. USB sticks are not recognized no matter how old they are. It also had pulseaudio and the pulseaudio mixer installed although I removed those. USB sticks were also not recognized with Raspbian installed. Please note, I am only after having a

[DNG] Raspberry Pi

2018-09-18 Thread Edward Bartolo
-- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) If you cannot make abstructions about details you do not understand the concepts underlying them. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] Support for Raspberry Pi 3B+ as an audio playback server.

2018-09-14 Thread Edward Bartolo
I am trying to make a headless server with a Raspberry Pi 3. The purpose of the server is to be used as an audio file player. Can this be done with Devuanised Raspberry Pi images? With the VolumeIO OS the Pi cannot connect to the network irrespective of using an ethernet wired connection or a

[DNG] How to test the backend of simple-netaid

2018-09-07 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 07/09/2018, aitor_czr wrote: > > El 07/09/18 a las 12:00, Edward Bartolo escribió: >> Aitor wrote: >> "I spent a lot of time downgrading the frontend from Gtk3 to Gtk2, >> because of the general preference in favor of this second one. The >> packages for j

Re: [DNG] How to test the backend of simple-netaid

2018-09-07 Thread Edward Bartolo
Aitor wrote: "I spent a lot of time downgrading the frontend from Gtk3 to Gtk2, because of the general preference in favor of this second one. The packages for jessie will be available in a couple of days." Thank you for caring about users. edbarx -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't

[DNG] How to test the backend of simple-netaid

2018-09-07 Thread Edward Bartolo
-- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) If you cannot make abstructions about details you do not understand the concepts underlying them. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] No spaces between menus in XFCE terminal.

2018-09-01 Thread Edward Bartolo
Installing the clearlooks-phenix-darkpurpy-theme solved the issue. Thanks. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] No spaces between menus in XFCE terminal.

2018-08-31 Thread Edward Bartolo
From some time ago, XFCE 4 terminal 0.8.3 does NOT separate its main menus. This is in XFCE 4 under ASCII. The menu bar appears like a sentence without spaces. This also happens in 'Preferences' with tab captions forming literally one long word. More information:

[DNG] [OT] Modification of audio power amplifier.

2018-08-30 Thread Edward Bartolo
The attached amplifier circuit is the result of many hours of study and development. It is an audio amplifier that can deliver a continuous power of 250W at 8 Ohms or 450W at 4 Ohms. The resultant distortion figure is around 0.1% for the higher power and about 0 .09% for the lower power. I

[DNG] [OT] Cannot install wine32 on ASCII.

2018-08-24 Thread Edward Bartolo
While browsing LTSpice's directory structure, I discovered LTSpice's executable is a 64 bit Windows executable. Knowing, wine64 could be installed and run without issues on ASCII, I copied the entire directory tree to a disk and copied it to Devuan where wine64 expects Windows programs to be

[DNG] [devuan-dev] Fwd: Maintenance and Development of new Devuan Releases

2018-08-19 Thread Edward Bartolo
Steve Litt wrote: -- You know, Ed, you're a nice guy, but your lack of emotional control makes you a pain in the ass on the mailing list. So for the second time, I set procmail to send messages I receive from you to /dev/null. -- And add also, it is very convenient for

[DNG] [OT] Cannot install wine32 on ASCII.

2018-08-18 Thread Edward Bartolo
Maybe, apt-cache depends can shed some light. It seems wine32 depends on libwine:i386 and the latter breaks wine32. Here is the output: $ apt-cache depends libwine:i386 libwine:i386 Depends: libc6:i386 Depends: libfontconfig1:i386 Depends: libfreetype6:i386 Depends: libncurses5:i386

[DNG] [OT] Cannot install wine32 on ASCII.

2018-08-18 Thread Edward Bartolo
Jaromil wrote: - > 1. dpkg --print-architechture > 2. dpkg --print-foreign-architectures > 3. list of enabled repositories (+ architechture) > 4. dpkg -l | grep wine I'm sorry to see that Ed moved on to RANT instead of providing basic information to those of use who were patiently

[DNG] [devuan-dev] Fwd: Maintenance and Development of new Devuan Releases

2018-08-18 Thread Edward Bartolo
[RANT; if you hate rants, don't read it] Linux is getting exaspirating... It is not definitely the Linux I knew when I started using it back in 2006-2007. Like Windows, Linux is now allowing advertising to pass through, with the disadvantage of a nightmare whenever a package fails to install. I

[DNG] [OT] Cannot install wine32 on ASCII.

2018-08-17 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 17/08/2018, Evilham wrote: [...] > > Snippet from a previous email after fixing command typos, can you post > all this? > > 1. dpkg --print-architechture > 2. dpkg --print-foreign-architectures > 3. list of enabled repositories (+ architechture) > 4. dpkg -l | grep wine > This is the output.

[DNG] [OT] Cannot install wine32 on ASCII.

2018-08-17 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 13/08/2018, KatolaZ wrote: [...] > > Random guess: which repo are you using? If you are still using > packages.devuan.org or *.mirror.devuan.org, then you should switch to > deb.devuan.org, since we know of existing glitches with ascii in the > original amprolla. > I carefully edited my

[DNG] [OT] Cannot install wine32 on ASCII.

2018-08-13 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 13/08/2018, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: [...] > > I suspect your system is not multiarch atm. You can add i386 with the > command > > dpkg --add-architecture i386 > I have already added the i386 architecture. This is what dpkg tells me: dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386

[DNG] [OT] Cannot install wine32 on ASCII.

2018-08-13 Thread Edward Bartolo
On 13/08/2018, Evilham wrote: 08.2018 um 14:30 schrieb Edward Bartolo: >> apt-get laments: [...] >> Can I continue using Devuan ASCII and have wine32? > > None of that is Devuan-specific. Have you read this? > > https://wiki.debian.org/Wine > -- > Evilham > OK,

[DNG] [OT] Cannot install wine32 on ASCII.

2018-08-13 Thread Edward Bartolo
apt-get laments: # apt-get install wine32 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required

[DNG] This is a losing battle, against the propaganda of redhat.

2018-07-27 Thread Edward Bartolo
"Propoganda"? Why not use the more appropriate word, "marketing"? This kind of mail threads should be marked as SPAM or TRASH. Devuan needs to prove itself to be a viable alternative that works, and that lets computer admins/users configure their systems as they need, without the requirement of

[DNG] simple-netaid-gtk is comming soon

2018-07-09 Thread Edward Bartolo
Aitor, aitor whose netaid is going to be preferred? What did you do to the 'infamous' SUID backend? Did you add functions to it? Have you completely revamped it with completely new code and a different algorithms? I say 'Sorry' to Devuan for being absent almost regularly but at the moment I am

[DNG] installer woe

2018-06-26 Thread Edward Bartolo
In the event debootstrap fails, a list of the essential packages would help all those who, in the most extreme case of installation failures, want to manually extract them to an empty partition and do the packages' configuration manually. As far as I remember, Debian requires essential packages to

[DNG] Educating people (Was: One week into Devuan 2.0 ASCII -- Some stats)

2018-06-22 Thread Edward Bartolo
The way some people 'argue' makes every argument futile. :( ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] devuan from scratch?

2018-06-16 Thread Edward Bartolo
I do not use debootstrap for educational purposes but to bypass installer misbehaviour.For instance, I remember using it when the installer obstinately wanted to force me to use LVM (Logical Volume Management). This happened both under Debian and Devuan. On other occasions, the installer came to a

[DNG] [OT] Modification of audio power amplifier.

2018-05-31 Thread Edward Bartolo
The circuit I sent you is not finished yet. Yesterday, I connected it to the output stage to test how it behaves. At first, it oscillated at a frequency of 660kHz. I realised this because the heatsink started getting steadily hotter. To decouple high ultrasonic frequencies I used a decoupling

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