Re: [DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-06 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Fri, 5 Mar 2021 18:56:25 + - Simon Hobson : > Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > > > For the sake of completeness and y'all's convenience, here a link to > > the related info in the Debianwiki: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames [quote] * UNPREDICTABILITY it turns ou

Re: [DNG] How to adjust mouse characteristics? SOLVED

2021-02-08 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Sun, 7 Feb 2021 08:37:07 -0500 - Steve Litt : > Could you please tell me the make and model of the mouse? I love > super-sensitive mice. It was (now I am on a basic Logitech mouse) a TeckNet um013 (specs: http://www.tecknet.co.uk/um013-black.html) -- not sure if it falls under the definition of

Re: [DNG] How to adjust mouse characteristics? SOLVED

2021-02-06 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
> The problem was that the mouse was way too sensitive, meaning the > pointer would go too far for a small mouse movement. Hi I had a similar issue some months ago with a sensitive high resolution mouse... For me the solution was simply to use an appropriate mousepad (designed for sensitive h

Re: [DNG] Request for assistance

2021-01-25 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:59:19 -0600 - o1bigtenor : > Greetings > > (Asking this here as so far I've seen some seriously skilled folks > connecting in!) > > I've been working on getting a HiSense 50" TV (3840x2160_30) working > on a Nvidia GTX1050 Ti graphics card. I have a second graphics card > (Nv

Re: [DNG] tor browser can't see current drive

2021-01-20 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:33:13 -0500 - Haines Brown : > Whether I install torbrowser-launcher from Beowulf repository or > download it from www.torproject.org, I find that it insists on > saving files to no longer mounted drive. > > When I browse other save locations, all locations are /dev/sdc, an

Re: [DNG] Linux's sucky cut and paste: was: problematic mouse driver?

2020-11-18 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:40:03 +0200 - "Dimitris T." : > you probably mean clipboard manager(?)... > i'm using parcellite mainly for that. gtk based, but also ran it in LXQT > without issues iirc... There is also ClipIt (forked from Parcellite, adding bugfixes and features). I do not use neither parc

Re: [DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf

2020-10-01 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:36:32 -0700 - Ian Zimmerman : > On 2020-09-30 20:02, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > > > Firefox, from a certain version onwards (sorry but I don't remember > > which one), removed support for ALSA from the default build > > configuration (maybe it w

Re: [DNG] problem with KDE/plasma on Beowulf / pulseaudio too

2020-09-30 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:25:26 -0400 - "." : > [...] > > But I also have issues with LXQT, including similar audio problems as > what others are posting about.  I just tried to "apt remove" pulseaudio, > but apt wants to remove lxqt along with it. Which is one of the main reasons I do not use LXQT an

Re: [DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf

2020-09-30 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:54:14 -0700 - Marc Shapiro : > I have been running Debian for over 20 years, but I want to avoid > systemd, so I am trying out Devuan. > > I installed ASCII a last year and just did an upgrade to Beowulf about a > week ago.  [...] > The issue that I am having is with sound.

Re: [DNG] RFC: wiki software

2020-09-09 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Fri, 4 Sep 2020 00:51:01 -0400 - Mason Loring Bliss : > Hi all! We're looking for opinions about wiki software. First choice at > the moment is TWiki but we want more options and more perspective to get > us to the best possible decision. > > [...] You could consider TikiWiki [1] (which is not T

Re: [DNG] terminology

2020-08-25 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:59:53 -0400 - Hendrik Boom : > There are files and directories. > > Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity > for something which might be a file or a directory? If you mean regular file and directory and you want something descriptive that isn't an acronym,

[DNG] GNU Shepherd user services

2020-07-03 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hello everyone I came across recently on GNU Shepherd user services: `The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd, formerly known as GNU dmd, is a service manager that looks after the herd of system services. It provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any other

Re: [DNG] repository status problem?

2020-06-03 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Mon, 1 Jun 2020 21:47:23 +0100 (BST) - Jim Jackson : > Some googling indicated that this sort of problem might be solved by doing > an > > apt update Indeed... While `apt-get update` not asked me to say Y, `apt update` did, and this solved the problem. Anyway this surprised me, both becau

[DNG] repository status problem?

2020-06-01 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi I am using Beowulf coming as upgrade from ASCII, with my sources.list pointing to (using codenames): deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main After Beowulf has become stable, I can't update anymore doing $ sudo apt-get update which outputs an error about "http://deb.devuan.org/merge

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-05-24 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:29:58 +0100 - al3xu5 / dotcommon : > I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... > Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? > Please, based on your experience and knowledge of Devuan and DEs, can > you help me in choosing (av

Re: [DNG] without-systemd.org not working

2020-05-24 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Fri, 22 May 2020 21:41:17 -0400 - Steve Litt : > > Trace out, please, the mechanism for how > > specifically that worked, according to you. > > 1. Redhat complexifies Linux. > > 2. People have trouble adminning the new Linux and finding folks >capable of adminning the new Linux. > > 3. P

Re: [DNG] without-systemd.org not working

2020-05-22 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Fri, 22 May 2020 01:42:46 -0700 - Rick Moen : > C'mon, Didier. Explain please how adoption of systemd in RHEL and > CentOS either gave RHAT a superior competitive market position relative > to other market-relevant Linux distro companies or improved RHAT's > financial strength. Trace out, please

Re: [DNG] without-systemd.org not working

2020-05-19 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Mon, 18 May 2020 08:57:39 -0700 - Ian Zimmerman : > On 2020-05-18 16:42, Didier Kryn wrote: > > > In particular by porting Window$ on top of Systemd-Gnu-Linux, just > > like MacOS lives on top of FreeBSD and makes big profit. > > How would that work from the legal POV? Linux is still GPL, pret

Re: [DNG] Upto date copy of QGIS ...

2020-05-06 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Tue, 5 May 2020 22:32:34 +0100 (BST) - Jim Jackson : > Hi, I'm seeking advice. > I need a more upto date version of QGIS, geographical information system, > than is in ASCII - I need a version 3. > > On the QGIS downloads site ... > > https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#linux >

[DNG] beowulf qcow2?

2020-04-27 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi all Please, can anyone tell me if a qemu image is available for beowulf? Otherwise, from where can I download safely the latest official devuan quemu image (I saw that in some of the mirrors there are ASCII 2.0 images... But not sure which one to choose...)? Thanks in advance Regards -- al

Re: [DNG] udev errors

2020-04-04 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Sat, 04 Apr 2020 13:48:45 +0900 - Olaf Meeuwissen : > al3xu5 / dotcommon writes: > > > Hi > > > > Examining the system after dis-upgrading from ASCII to Beowulf, I noticed a > > lot of udev errors during boot > > > > I attach the output of `dmesg -l err

[DNG] udev errors

2020-04-03 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi Examining the system after dis-upgrading from ASCII to Beowulf, I noticed a lot of udev errors during boot I attach the output of `dmesg -l err, warn` at the bottom. What can be the cause? What is the solution? Thanks Regards ~~~ $ dmesg -l err,warn [0.005514] ACPI: 2 ACPI AML tables

Re: [DNG] ASCII 2.1 to Beowulf: Report + questions [trash icon fix]

2020-03-28 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:53:17 +0100 - al3xu5 / dotcommon : > Yesterday I dist-upgrade ASCII 2.1 (MATE DM) to Beowulf, following [1]. > > [...] > > 5. Some MATE problems: > > [...] > > 5.2. The trash icon don't work as expected anymore: if the trash can contains >

Re: [DNG] couldn't register with accessibility bus in Beowulf (workaround)

2020-03-26 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:06:57 + - Mark Hindley : > I can conform that slim seems to do the right thing at the AT_SPI_BUS is set > and available. > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 08:06:22AM +, Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've had that problem as well. [...] > > > > To me, it seam

Re: [DNG] ASCII 2.1 to Beowulf: Report + questions

2020-03-23 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:42:59 + - Mark Hindley : > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:32:44AM +0100, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > > > Does `apt install libpam-elogind' fix it? > > > > Hum... that's what I have: > > > > ~~~ > > $ sudo apt-get ins

Re: [DNG] ASCII 2.1 to Beowulf: Report + questions

2020-03-23 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:29:28 -0400 - fsmithred : > On 3/22/20 12:53 PM, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Yesterday I dist-upgrade ASCII 2.1 (MATE DM) to Beowulf, following [1]. > > > > > Now I have: > > ~~~ > > $ uname -a > > Li

Re: [DNG] ASCII 2.1 to Beowulf: Report + questions

2020-03-23 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi Mark Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:28:21 + - Mark Hindley : > > 1- There is one aspect of the upgrade that I don't think is in place, and > > that I would like to point out: elogind, libelogind0, libpam-elogind have > > not been upgraded; indeed these packages are marked as 'upgradable'. How > > sh

[DNG] ASCII 2.1 to Beowulf: Report + questions

2020-03-22 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi all Yesterday I dist-upgrade ASCII 2.1 (MATE DM) to Beowulf, following [1]. Overall, the upgrade appears to have gone well; the process has completed and the system is fully functional. But there are some details (maybe minor issues) I would like to report, also with some questions. Now I hav

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-03-16 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
25/02/2020 16:29:58 +0100 al3xu5 / dotcommon : > So what you suggest should be the first choice to bet on? First of all I would like to thank you all for the many interesting and useful answers. As I mentioned, my desire is to have a highly usable, easily configurable, stable over time

[DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi all I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? Please, based on your experience and knowledge of Devuan and DEs, can you help me in choosing (avoiding me to invest too much time doing long experiments)? Consider that

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-13 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
13/02/2020 19:33:27 +1100 Ralph Ronnquist : > Traversing / directly like that is not a good idea. Rather do: > > # mount -obind / /mnt > # du -sh /mnt/* > > so that you traverse the root file system without traversing all special > mounts (/proc, /sys etc) > > Thenn you'll do > # umount /mnt

[DNG] Hyperbola is ditching the Linux kernel...

2020-01-23 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi I would like to point out an announcement from the Hyperbola website, which I think may be interesting to report here mainly for the reasons they highlight about future choices (see in particular the part 'Reasons for this ...' at the end of the text ... ). Regards https://www.hyperbola.info

Re: [DNG] Problem installing Devuan-ascii

2019-10-26 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
24/10/2019 11:19:14 -0400 Hendrik Boom : > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:04:36AM +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: [...] > > I suggest you could create partitions *before* the installing process, using > > a "live" tool such is: > > https://gparted.org/livecd.php &g

Re: [DNG] Problem installing Devuan-ascii

2019-10-24 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi Robert 14/10/2019 15:38:36 +0700 Robert Parker : > My several attempts at installing this on a desktop amd machine in legacy > mode do nothing but take me to a grub prompt. > Examining the result using system-rescue-cd reveal that no useable > partitions were created during the install. > >

Re: [DNG] Future of gNewSense: Debian or Devuan?

2019-08-04 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno sabato 03/08/2019 12:36:10 -0300 pekman ha scritto: > I think GNewSense is welcome. > > Devuan will be a great basis for your development. The work to do is > not complex. I myself was able to remove all Non-Free Software on my > own and install Linux Libre bundled with Jason Self.

Re: [DNG] Future of gNewSense: Debian or Devuan?

2019-08-02 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno giovedì 01/08/2019 12:26:02 -0400 Steve Litt ha scritto: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:29:39 +0200 > Narcis Garcia wrote: > > > Missatge reenviat > > Assumpte: Re: [gNewSense-users] Stepping down > > Data: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:45:32 +0200 > > De: Sam Geeraerts > > A: gnew

Re: [DNG] usb automount

2019-07-18 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno giovedì 18/07/2019 20:31:20 +0200 Andreas Messer ha scritto: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 08:16:31PM +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > > Please I need your help. > > > > I have installed a fresh ASCII on a small barebone pc to be used as audio > > ser

[DNG] usb automount

2019-07-18 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Please I need your help. I have installed a fresh ASCII on a small barebone pc to be used as audio server. Using MATE and lightdm. I have also installed some multimedia stuff and apt updated & upgraded packages. When I plug any usb stick as normal user, it is not automounted and I get a 'not aut

Re: [DNG] Where to reply for Steve Litt

2019-05-24 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno giovedì 23/05/2019 20:07:17 -0400 Steve Litt ha scritto: > On Thu, 23 May 2019 15:21:30 -0700 > Rick Moen wrote: > > [snip] > > My claws-mail has a reply-to-list, which *usually* does the right thing My cent in this regard... At the ML side: - dng ML user configuration (https:

[DNG] systemd0, login/elogind, udev/eudev, dbus

2019-05-19 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi I have Ascii + Mate-1.16 on a amd64 machine. My system come from Debian Wheezy, which I upgraded to Jessie in August 2016, which I later upgraded to Ascii in July 2018. Looking at the installed packages, I found things that I would like to better understand and manage, with your kind support.

Re: [DNG] New application ready to test: hopman

2019-04-26 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno mercoledì 24/04/2019 01:24:09 +1000 wirelessd...@gmail.com ha scritto: > > On 24 Apr 2019, at 01:06, Didier Kryn wrote: > > > >> Le 23/04/2019 à 13:22, Edward Bartolo via Dng a écrit : > >> Making it a Debian package should be easy. Use dh_make to create a [snip] > May I suggest lo

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-12 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno venerdì 12/04/2019 10:41:53 +0200 Antony Stone ha scritto: > On Friday 12 April 2019 at 00:53:40, Steve Litt wrote: > > > I suggest we pass the following resolution: > > [cut] > Do we want to emphasise purely "sans-systemd", or do we want to promote > "freedom of init choice"? [cu

Re: [DNG] Way forward

2019-04-11 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno giovedì 11/04/2019 13:27:08 +0200 Edward Bartolo ha scritto: > 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. What's surprisin

Re: [DNG] What you saw on devuan.org yesterday was an April's fools joke

2019-04-06 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno venerdì 05/04/2019 11:22:48 -0700 Rick Moen ha scritto: > Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > > > What if Katolaz gets hit by a bus? > > Ah! A proper scientific question. There is precedent for this: > http://web.archive.org/web/2003013913/http

Re: [DNG] frustration with browsers.

2019-04-05 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno venerdì 05/04/2019 13:50:03 + chill...@protonmail.com ha scritto: > Might potentially be a solution if anyone did decide to package another > browser to try to solve the problem, since it comes from the hyperbola > project. Another is the GNU/IceCat browser: - IceCat project https

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

2019-03-15 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno giovedì 14/03/2019 23:23:52 +0100 Edward Bartolo ha scritto: > 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 kn

Re: [DNG] /var/lib/dbus/machine-id -- new dbus version

2019-03-13 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno lunedì 11/03/2019 11:04:53 +0100 aitor_czr ha scritto: > > Unitil I will migrate to Beowulf, I guess adopt this proposed solution: > > > > 1) symlink /etc/machine-id to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id > > > > 2) run boot: echo date +%s%N | md5sum | cut -c 1-32 > > > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id

Re: [DNG] /var/lib/dbus/machine-id -- new dbus version

2019-03-11 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
ave: $ hostid 007f0101 What the best to do about this? Keep this value? Change it to what else? ... Thank you Regards -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and any industrial design restrictions. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@l

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
t; using the `hostid` command, I have (Devuan ASCII): $ hostid 007f0101 which is the same value!!! I wonder... is it a "fixed" id for all Devuan installation as it seems to be? And if it is so,is it correct that it is? Regards -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyrigh

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
f the code "free and open" is inspectable, then it must be done and, in this case for example, that it is also done with respect to privacy ... and I do not think that always happens ... regards -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and any industrial design restri

Re: [DNG] [car...@debian.org: [SECURITY] [DSA 4393-1] systemd security update]

2019-02-19 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
rved to safely store updates :o -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and any industrial design restrictions. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Systemd as tragedy

2019-01-31 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
gt; > ___ > > > > Unfortunately . . . > > "The page you have tried to view (Systemd as tragedy) is currently > available to LWN subscribers only." > > Too bad. Might have been entertaining . . . > &g

[DNG] libreplanet discussing systemd vs sysvinit

2017-03-15 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi all Just a notice on this thread at libreplanet: [libreplanet-discuss] a question to developers (not packagers) re. systemd vs. sysvinit https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2017-03/msg00017.html -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and any

[DNG] wheezy to devuan migration

2016-07-07 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
xpect any problems? c.2) My system is targeted to graphics and realtime audio. Should I expect any problems? Thank you all in advance. Regards -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and any industrial design restrictions. ___ Dn

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-05 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
On 2016-02-04 07:03, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > Do you agree to renaming netman? NO -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and any industrial design restrictions. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Purchasing a new computer/laptop.

2016-01-27 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
rdware, again I install on my laptop a *100%-libre-GNU/Linux-system*! Regards -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and any industrial design restrictions. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng