Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:37:15 -0700 wes dijo: >On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 1:32 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> Normally release is done with the Right-Ctrl key, but if you're in >> the host and the guest has exclusive control of mouse and keyboard, >> you have no Right-Ctrl key >something is not

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread wes
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 1:32 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:50:09 -0700 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > > Normally release is done with the Right-Ctrl key, but if you're in the > host and the guest has exclusive control of mouse and keyboard, you have > no Right-Ctrl key >

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:50:09 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >Nevertheless I did get it installed, and now it's on to figuring out if >Debian 12 will really work for me. :) And once more I had to power down he computer because the virtual machine had captured the mouse and keyboard, and *after* I

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread Robert Citek
Talking about installing Linux into a VM, I used to use Vagrant. I say "used to" because I haven't run my own VM hypervisor in a while as just about everything I do is either in Docker or in The Cloud. Regards, - Robert On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 1:52 PM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11,

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 05:06 John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I spent two hours trying to get Virtualbox to recognize either the > optical drive or a USB drive where I had installed the Live Debian 12 > ISO that I downloaded. I finally succeeded at getting the virtual > machine to use the optical

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:12:18 -0500 Bill Barry dijo: >> C'mon Debian people, don't you test this stuff? > >I don't see that installing from the Live OS is the recommended path >for installing Debian. The netinst method is one of the recommended >installation methods. I know that net install is

Re: [PLUG] Print a brochure or booklet in LibreOffice Writer

2023-09-11 Thread Steve Dum
Dick Steffens wrote: On 9/7/23 22:04, Russell Senior wrote: On 9/7/23 11:43, Dick Steffens wrote: 20 years ago I used to use Word Perfect in Win 95, and it was easy to print a booklet. I'm trying to achieve the same results in LibreOffice Writer 7.3.7.2 in Xubuntu 22.04. I have

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:06 AM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:26:42 -0700 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > >On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:55:57 -0700 > >Keith Lofstrom dijo: > > > >Re Debian 12 Hookworm > > > >Just for kicks I downloaded the Live Xfce ISO and burned it to a small >

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread markcasimer
Stuff like this happens more and more. Is the reason just because orgs are cutting costs? Or that volunteers are just too pressed for time? The expertise is there. It's just not being used. I share your frustration ... not in this particular case ... but I have my own stories. -Mark -Original

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:26:42 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:55:57 -0700 >Keith Lofstrom dijo: > >Re Debian 12 Hookworm > >Just for kicks I downloaded the Live Xfce ISO and burned it to a small >USB 3.0 drive. I may see what happens if I try to install it in >VirtualBox.