Re: [GTALUG] keeping my systems updated: Windows vs Linux

2022-03-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Nicholas Krause via talk [I've cut out the quotation of my message since Nicholas' message doesn't seem to respond to it.] | I did this What's "this"? | a while ago, but I noticed that exes were about twice as slow | as yum at the time. What are exes? Do you mean Windows .exe files?

Re: [GTALUG] Package Manager upgrades on Linux

2022-03-08 Thread Scott Allen via talk
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 15:59, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > So my questions (yes, there are questions here): does anyone know of > other package management systems? For a time (long ago) I used Gentoo Linux as my main O/S. It uses their own system called Portage. The primary command is emerge.

Re: [GTALUG] Package Manager upgrades on Linux

2022-03-08 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 15:59:16 -0500 Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > So my questions (yes, there are questions here): does anyone know of > other package management systems? I suppose I'm thinking of > OS-specific ones rather than flatpak or snap. How fast are those > other systems relative to

Re: [GTALUG] keeping my systems updated: Windows vs Linux

2022-03-08 Thread Nicholas Krause via talk
On 3/8/22 09:58, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I want to keep my systems up to date. Not everyone does. As I understand it, Windows Update does not update the Linux portion. Yet another step to keep a Windows system safe as possible. My drill: - Run Windows update. If it actually

[GTALUG] Package Manager upgrades on Linux

2022-03-08 Thread Giles Orr via talk
This is curiosity on my part and not meant to start a massive debate. I apologize should it do so. I started using Linux with Slackware. That wasn't really a "managed package system" at the time - you just unpacked tarballs. I moved to RedHat, where "rpm" was a huge improvement in package

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG March Meeting Reminder

2022-03-08 Thread Alan Heighway via talk
*When: *Mar 8, 2022 7:30PM *Speaker:* Trevor Woerner *Topic:* Update Strategies for Embedded Devices *Location:* https://blue.lpi.org/b/eva-zjc-gjy-kgl For various reasons, the strategies for performing a software update on an embedded device have diverged from what is commonly done on the

Re: [GTALUG] Sane Email System?

2022-03-08 Thread Charles Philip Chan via talk
Peter King via talk writes: Hello, > Hello > I've just been informed that "legacy authentication" is going to be > disabled at the University of Toronto for my email account. Well, I > suspected something like this was in the works when they adopted MS Outlook > 365+ as the mail server, but it

[GTALUG] keeping my systems updated: Windows vs Linux

2022-03-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
I want to keep my systems up to date. Not everyone does. As I understand it, Windows Update does not update the Linux portion. Yet another step to keep a Windows system safe as possible. My drill: - Run Windows update. If it actually applied an update, you should run it again in case the

Re: [GTALUG] two or three tricks for installing Linux as a second OS on a Windows box

2022-03-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | But you want a bash shell on windows anyhow, so WSL makes the perfect | CLI on windows. | | I even have samba setup, and never use it, I just scp. | | winscp is a nice tool, but it's no match for a linux shell. Without checking, I would guess that WinSCP is

Re: [GTALUG] two or three tricks for installing Linux as a second OS on a Windows box

2022-03-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 11:28:15AM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2022-03-07 07:39, William Park via talk wrote: > > I used to dual-boot, but now I use separate Linux computer.  If I need > > to copy files, I use ssh/scp in WSL Ubuntu. > > For those times when you need to copy files and