Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] MS Office 365 in Qubes

On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 15:53 +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > > Office 365 _without_ MS-Windows? Are you kidding? Maybe Microsoft > provides it for other platforms, but _why_ would one use the > Microsoft > product? (I'm using OpenOffice/LibreOffice for years, and it's OK for > me) I use

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] MS Office 365 in Qubes

On 5/26/21 11:01 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: most spammers want "to buy our products" ;-) Still we are not able to use Office 365. That one went straight over my head, possibly been away from Germany for too long (15 years). Sorry for being a bit grumpy. Didn't sleep much last night. For others

Re: [qubes-users] Re: [qubes-devel] Fedora 32 has reached EOL

On 5/25/21 12:02 PM, 'icequbes1' via qubes-users wrote: Dear Qubes Community, Fedora 32 has reached EOL (end-of-life [1]). If you have not already done so, we strongly recommend upgrading [2] your Fedora 32 TemplateVMs and StandaloneVMs to Fedora 33 immediately. We provide a fresh Fedora 33

[qubes-users] error updating qubes-template-centos-7

Hi I'm trying to update the centos-7 template, installed from the community templates repo, using the Qubes Update utility and the process is failing with: Updating centos-7 Error on updating centos-7: Command '['sudo', 'qubesctl', '--skip-dom0', '--targets=centos-7', '--show-output',

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] sys-net problems Intel 8265 / 8275

On 5/26/21 5:45 PM, Ulrich Windl wrote: Do you have some hints how I could try to improve that? Best,  Bernhard See what "journalctl -f" outputs in net-vm. that gave an error message that helped to understand that seemingly mac-randomization-while-scanning and OpenWRT are a bad mixture

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] qubes-dom0-update (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6581)

On 5/26/21 5:23 PM, unman wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:22:39PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: Hi! I know that the issue is marked fixed already, but I wonder if there should have been some more popular notice for this surprising change in the update mechanism. Today I saw there (before

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Dom0 update error (Converting database from bdb to sqlite backend)

On 5/26/21 4:40 PM, unman wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: On 5/14/21 3:22 PM, unman wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 05:30:30AM -0700, load...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 10:00:16 PM UTC+3 awokd wrote: load...@gmail.com: On Monday, May

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] MS Office 365 in Qubes

On 5/26/21 4:24 PM, Sven Semmler wrote: On 5/26/21 8:53 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: On 5/13/21 2:36 PM, 'taran1s' via qubes-users wrote: due to my work assignment, I will need to use MS Office 365 and I would like to keep using my Qubes laptop. IMHO running Office 365 from Qubes OS makes very

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] sys-net problems Intel 8265 / 8275

On 5/24/21 9:09 PM, haaber wrote: I have an build-in Intel 8265 / 8275 wireless controller, and my (debian-10-minimal based) sys-net has more and more problems to connect. It starts to connect and then hangs. That is strange since it used to run perfectly 2 years ago. But now it takes 1-5

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Re: Fedora 32 approaching EOL

On Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:45 AM Ulrich Windl < ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > On 5/13/21 2:36 AM, Steve Coleman wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2021, 5:52 PM Ulrich Windl > > > > wrote: > > > > On 4/30/21 1:31 AM, Andrew David Wong

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Hotspots

On 5/20/21 4:00 PM, '[ NOTIFICATION]' via qubes-users wrote: *_Does Qubes have automated features to conceal tether data as mobile under a tether?_* Why should it when I use WLAN to connect my Smartphone and then share that connection via USB (or Bluetooth)? See: https://bit.ly/343Q14h

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Re: Is swap necessary?

On 5/19/21 5:43 PM, TheGardner wrote: For me, it would be necessary, if you're running Qubes with 4-8GB of RAM. But with 16,32 or even 64 GB of RAM a swap partition may be useless... What about the "swappiness" kernel parameter? Here I see vm.swappiness=60 (default) Having 16GB RAM and only

Re: [qubes-users] qubes-dom0-update (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6581)

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:22:39PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > Hi! > > I know that the issue is marked fixed already, but I wonder if there should > have been some more popular notice for this surprising change in the update > mechanism. > > Today I saw there (before installing updates): >

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Dom0 update error (Converting database from bdb to sqlite backend)

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > On 5/14/21 3:22 PM, unman wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 05:30:30AM -0700, load...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 10:00:16 PM UTC+3 awokd wrote: > > > > > > > load...@gmail.com: > > > > > On Monday, May 10,

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] MS Office 365 in Qubes

On 5/26/21 8:53 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: On 5/13/21 2:36 PM, 'taran1s' via qubes-users wrote: due to my work assignment, I will need to use MS Office 365 and I would like to keep using my Qubes laptop. IMHO running Office 365 from Qubes OS makes very little sense The entire idea of Qubes OS

[qubes-users] qubes-dom0-update (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6581)

Hi! I know that the issue is marked fixed already, but I wonder if there should have been some more popular notice for this surprising change in the update mechanism. Today I saw there (before installing updates): [master@dom0 ~]$ sudo qubes-dom0-update Using sys-firewall as UpdateVM to

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Dom0 update error (Converting database from bdb to sqlite backend)

On 5/14/21 3:22 PM, unman wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 05:30:30AM -0700, load...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 10:00:16 PM UTC+3 awokd wrote: load...@gmail.com: On Monday, May 10, 2021 at 10:06:10 PM UTC+3 awokd wrote: In dom0, check the files in /etc/yum.repos.d for

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Corrupt sys-usb after VeraCrypt accident

On 5/14/21 12:49 PM, 'Cody Smith' via qubes-users wrote: Hey all, I'm going to love anyone who can assist me. So I have VeraCrypt installed on my sys-usb VM so I can mount my encrypted hard drives and usb sticks. I was encrypting a new USB drive (well I thought it was my USB drive) and then

Re: [qubes-users] Salting your Qubes

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 08:25:41PM +, pillule wrote: > > pillule writes: > > > Hi unman. > > > > I am learning to "salting my Qubes", what decided me is your recipe for > > apt-cacher-ng (sometimes my bandwith really matters). > > > > So far I get some things working such as an automated

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] MS Office 365 in Qubes

On 5/13/21 2:36 PM, 'taran1s' via qubes-users wrote: I am using Qubes as my main OS and now it seems that due to my work assignment, I will need to use MS Office 365 and I would like to keep using my Qubes laptop. IMHO running Office 365 from Qubes OS makes very little sense (as you publish

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Re: Fedora 32 approaching EOL

On 5/13/21 2:36 AM, Steve Coleman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2021, 5:52 PM Ulrich Windl > wrote: On 4/30/21 1:31 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: > Dear Qubes Community, > > Fedora 32 is scheduled to reach EOL (end-of-life [1]) on

Re: [qubes-users] Salting your Qubes

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 07:05:40PM +, pillule wrote: > > Hi unman. > > I am learning to "salting my Qubes", what decided me is your recipe for > apt-cacher-ng (sometimes my bandwith really matters). > > So far I get some things working such as an automated >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: sys-net problems Intel 8265 / 8275

This looks cumbersome, but I have a similar situation with my Wi-Fi card and Fedora template. However, the Intel webpage also links https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ (see the note above the table) as a source for newer versions. I remember some