Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

On 03/29/2018 09:39 PM, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 12:33 Russell via talk, > wrote: > > > I think I just read that Windows 10 now has a virtual linux console. > > > Yup. I just installed Debian 9 under Windows 10 today. It doesn't feel > lik

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 12:33 Russell via talk, wrote: > > I think I just read that Windows 10 now has a virtual linux console. > Yup. I just installed Debian 9 under Windows 10 today. It doesn't feel like a VM, but it's a decidedly odd experience running 'apt' on a Windows machine The X integrat

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

On March 29, 2018 11:35:07 AM EDT, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: >On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:17:58AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: >> I grabbed Fedora's very latest kernel this morning >> (4.15.12-301.fc27.x86_64) given Russell's point that there's been a >lot of >> new feautures related

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

On 03/29/2018 11:17 AM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I haven't got my head around the spec enough to know: does the fact > that it's USB-C guarantee that it can deliver 20v and lots'o-watts to > accessories? What about accepting that voltage from a charger? I'd > bet that Asus hasn't bothered to s

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:17:58AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I grabbed Fedora's very latest kernel this morning > (4.15.12-301.fc27.x86_64) given Russell's point that there's been a lot of > new feautures related to this. After a reboot I ran 'lspci' - I have > USB3.0, not 3.1. This is b

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

On 24 March 2018 at 19:07, Russell wrote: > On March 24, 2018 9:53:59 AM EDT, Russell Reiter > wrote: > >On 24 March 2018 at 08:08, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > >> On 23 March 2018 at 20:01, Scott Sullivan via talk > >wrote: > >>> > >>> On 2018-03-23 12:50 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > >

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:35:59PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > My Sun 3/60 has 24 slots. But the largest memory module that it will > accept is 1MiB (note: not 1GiB). So more isn't always better :-) > > As memory systems get faster, fan-out and signal path length matter > more.

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:59:44PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its over > 6 years old) > has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have that many. > (Just one point for where newer isn't always 'better' (whatever t

Re: [GTALUG] OT: UEFI and Windows mysteries [was: New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 16:53 Bob Jonkman via talk, wrote: > > I welcome further off-topic insights, although the list moderators may > not be so tolerant. > I think "hardware that refuses to run Linux" is pretty on-topic. The threat of the locked-out BIOS* is still with us. Hugh and Scott's conti

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 07:43:39PM -0400, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > That'd be a totally brute-force solution. If the kernel pushed all dirty > pages into swap then there should only be the page tables and other core > stuff needing to go out, sleep, and be read back in before it could star

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPickerRecipe;

Many thanks to so many responders impossible to mention all individually !! Have duly noted around a half-dozen configuration items of the build recipe, for review and no doubt at least some already for revision. All postings greatly appreciated ... Steve --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org h

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its > over > | 6 years old) > | has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have that many. > | (Ju