Re: Kea Experiment Update

2025-08-04 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Aside: note that I'll say because DHCP leases are persisistent, that > complicates things a little -- I try to address in these notes: > >* load-balancing / sharing with failover (in normal operation two (or > more, > iiuc) servers share the load, if one (and

Re: serial console

2025-08-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 04, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > If you're thinking of the physical DE9 port that was typically used for > > connecting "Serial" peripheral devices, you are absolutely correct that >

Re: serial console

2025-08-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 04, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-08-04, wrote: > > > > Note that 'serial console' in Linux usually designates the system's > > boot up messages, that also can be picked-off some pins and watched > > remote. The non-X user interface entered by [alt]+[F] is called > > 'Linux console'. > > I

Re: serial console

2025-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Mike Castle wrote: > > Serial multiplexors used to be common in datacenters. Connect to the > multiplexor over ssh or equivalent, and select which physical device > on the rack to connect to. Most enterprise hardware would output the > boot screens (including BIOS) to the serial port. These da

Re: Handling contact data between Debian, Apple (iCloud) and Gmail (Google)

2025-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > I have been using Google contacts since it became available. I have been > sucked into using Apple's contacts since my first iPhone well over 10 years > ago. Keeping them synched has always been a problem, but it's getting worse > over the years. > > I keep reading about thir

Re: Prospective New Laptop

2025-08-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On Aug 01, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > On 01/08/2025 11:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 7/31/25 4:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100 > > > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > > > I'm being tempted by an ASUS laptop - ASUS-Viv

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

2025-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > On Thu 31 Jul 2025 at 19:07:30 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 08:01:56PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > > > > We have learned in this thread that sudo does already have a check in its > > prerm that prevents its removal if the system has a root account wi

Re: serial console

2025-07-31 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 31, 2025, John Dow wrote: > > > On 31 Jul 2025, at 13:45, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > On Jul 31, 2025, mick.crane wrote: > >> I've never really known what a serial console is. > >> Say in relation to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino > > > &g

Re: serial console

2025-07-31 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 31, 2025, mick.crane wrote: > I've never really known what a serial console is. > Say in relation to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino Skipping a *LOT* of history (and linguistics, etc), a "serial console" is a "console" (user interface) provided remotely to the device in question over a serial com

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

2025-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
José Esteban wrote: > Is it realistic to hope you to remember such many little things like this > each time you setup some system ? How many headless systems usually work > without sudo ? People who install many headless (or any other kind) of system should use an automated management system. a

Re: Storage tuning

2025-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a "server" running 24/7 with a lot of RAM. I would like to speed up > disk system by giving much higher priority to reads and delaying writes. > > YES, I KNOW THE RISK! > > As I understand, there are two things to tune: > > 1. I/O Scheduler. The default is mq

Re: Hello i am Aryan Wankhede

2025-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Aryan Wankhede wrote: > Hello i am Aryan Wankhede i am a user of Debian i wanted an help from you i > am launching a command line tool for linux and Debian and also i want to > launch it on Apt repository so people can easily download it.The name of > the app is Next and it shows gui and command l

looking for interactive free desktop software to transform hand-drawn jpg diagrams to svg

2025-07-28 Thread Dan Hitt
something that is in progress or has been abandoned might also be useful. Thanks in advance for any links or pointers or advice. dan

Re: Improving the Web.

2025-07-24 Thread Dan Ritter
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Ref. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00110.html > > From: David Wright > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:26:54 -0600 > > "Debian helps fix the Web." Not a headline I expect ever to see, ... > > Too simplisitic and a Web topic rather than Debian topic.

Re: how to delete my bug report

2025-07-23 Thread Dan Ritter
масляков дмитрий wrote: > Hello. > how to delete my bug report > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107874 ? > That nothing was opened at this address. > Don't try to delete it. Send a report to 1107...@bugs.debian.org saying: that you found the problem (and what the solution

Re: dkim clarification

2025-07-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 21, 2025, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Is it reasonably accurate (at a simple level) to say that dkim involves > applying a digital signature to an email by the domain (as opposed to a > digital signature applied by the user / sender of an email)? > > And that the domain uses the private k

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 20, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > > And it'd break signatures for those of us who use them. I *hated* yahoo > > groups (and, now, groups.io) for doing that. > > Can you explain what it means? I am subscribed to > <https://f

Re: Open Microsoft Surface

2025-07-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 20, 2025, Andrew W Rambus wrote: > Hello , I have a Microsoft Surface 4 ; I bought at a yard sale. ,and I’m > trying to turn it on , and I can’t get past the Debian login GNU/Linux 12 > login & password !! > Can someone please help me , open this laptop Reinstall your preferred OS over the

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 20, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:48:01PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > Perhaps, the List Administrators could find worthwhile, to add a footer to > > the mailing list messages, something like > > > > "To unsubscribe, change your subscription mode, or view the

Re: Open Source PHP Trouble Ticket System

2025-07-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Hello, > > I have been Googling around trying to find a Trouble Ticket System written > in PHP, JavaScript and MariaDB. Does anyone know of any good ones? I know the best one, but it's not written in PHP. apt install request-tracker5 -dsr-

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 18, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > OK, it makes some more sense now. The range of digits in the octal > system is from 0 to 7, so it would complain with "08" and "09" (but > not with "10" which would then be "8" in octal), but why would command > line utilities assume you are encoding n

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 17, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > Video durations are formatted in youtube's .info.json files as "HH:MM:SS"; > so, I went monkey and did the conversion myself, but I got two errors which I > can't make sense of whatsoever with only two values: > > _HHMMSS="19:09" > _HHMMSS="19:08" >

Re: Old distribution password

2025-07-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Ivan wrote: > Thank you for quick replay, Dan. > > One detail what is grub prompt? You seem to have missed copying the list on this. Common mistake. Grub is one of the possible boot methods that operates between the computer starting itself and the Linux kernel loading. If Raspbia

Re: Old distribution password

2025-07-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Ivan wrote: > Hallo, > > I wonder if you could help me out. > > Some time ago I got my Raspberry pi and installed Debian distribution - I > have a backup copies with name 2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img ... so you > see it is very old one. > > I was not using my Raspberrypi for some time and

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 14, 2025, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:45:56 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > > Only reason my wife's not on linux (anymore) is because the new > > paper-cutter thing (by cricut) needs windows-only drivers and I'm not > > all

Re: Why are bug comment numbers multiples of 5?

2025-07-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > How come messages are numbered like Message #5, #10, #15, rather than > > Message #1, #2, #3, ...? > > You mean like https://bugs.debian.org/1095863 ? But not https://bugs.debian.org/1095866 which starts with 5 and has a lot of multiples of 3 in it. -dsr-

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-14, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > >> I think that's already happened, more or less. The issue is that to get > >> my wife to use Debian it would need to be preinstalled [...] > > > > But that's why she has

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-14, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg (HE12025-07-12): > >> That's fine as long as you realize you are in the vast minority. > > > > As long as you acknowledge that not being in the majority is not a flaw > > in any way… > > I do completely acknowledge that.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Mount permissions weired

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
David wrote: > Something that I am curious to learn more about, if anyone has ideas, is > the discussion at the above link about the need to have at least 'chmod > 111' on mountpoint directories. > > I have not found that necessary, and so I wonder if that advice is > outdated, or somehow not rel

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Do you have a proposal then for a forum (as in, a platform for group > >> discussion) that's more palatable to the youngsters? > > Zulip? > Discourse? > Lemmy? > > Ideally, such a thing would have good&nice bridges to&from email, but in > practice I don't know any that

Re: Mount permissions weired

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Hans wrote: > > You have to chown/chmod the mount point *after* the drive is mounted. If > > you do it before the drive is mounted it won't have any effect on the > > mounted drive. (As you can see.) I really am not sure what else to say, > > this is how it works. > > Ok, I did as adviced. Change

Re: Mount permissions weired

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > I am struggeling with a strange behavior when automounting my inbuilt > harddrives. > > I have 3 harddrives, which are mounted to > > /space(sdc1) ext4 > /daten1 (sdd1) ext4 > /daten2 (sde1) ext4 > > So all are the sam

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Greg (HE12025-07-11): > > > > Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move > > > > rather > > > > than a

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-11, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > >> I use a mail to news gateway (gmane) that I find more convenient than > >> email (to tell the truth, I don't even know how people handle the shitload > >> of emails flooding int

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jul 11, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg (HE12025-07-11): > > > Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move > > > rather > > > than a copy? > > > > The fact that it is on the same disk i

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg (HE12025-07-11): > > Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move rather > > than a copy? > > The fact that it is on the same disk is not relevant. Apart from that, I > suggest you re-read Dan's mail more carefully, everything

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-11, Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:13:05 +0200 > > Philipp Ewald wrote: > > > >> Am 10.07.25 um 15:14 schrieb Andy Smith: > >> > I know a large number of people under the age of 20 who literally > >> > say things like, "email is only for password r

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-11, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg (HE12025-07-11): > >> On 2025-07-11, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > > >> > If the target location is on a different filesystem, a "move" is > >> > a full copy followed by a

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-07-11 10:52, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to > > > > another with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, > > > > when the number o

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
mick.crane wrote: > > When moving files on the same disk impression is, at least with dragging in > the desktop file manager, it seems instant. Whereas to another disk seems to > make new files. I guess that when on the same disk the OS changes only > something about the file description? That's

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Loris Bennett wrote: > John Dow writes: > > > On 11 Jul 2025, at 09:58, Anssi Saari > > wrote: > > > > Andy Smith writes: > > > > I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are > > increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find email

Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, hw wrote: > On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 13:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > Nowadays it seems like scp and sftp are the norm, not ftp. > > (S)FTP is still in use like for cameras, scanners (printers) and phones. > For local usages I don't want to do all the hassle the certi

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > > On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to another > > > with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, when the > > > number of files in the distination folder is about 4,500, t

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, John Dow wrote: > [...] > Granted, I’m an old fuddy-duddy who’s been using Linux since day 1 > (and UNIX before then), but email is the *perfect* medium for this > type of interaction. I'm not, but I agree here. ... though I did just notice the first bit of grey in my beard this

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to another > with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, when the number of > files in the distination folder is about 4,500, the "Files" application > deadly hangs, and only restaring the

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > I don't think removing email workflows (which implies removing mailing > > > lists) is wise. > > > > > > Debian can support new wa

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I don't think removing email workflows (which implies removing mailing > lists) is wise. > > Debian can support new ways to participate, like Social Media and > Chat, for Gen-Z. However, I don't believe it is an either/or > proposition. Debian should support email, mailing

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 10, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 09:44:05AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > What "trend"? That kids don't use (or perhaps understand) stuff they've > > had no real *need* of yet? > > The trend that peo

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 10, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 08:48:18AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > To make it REALLY clear - anybody and everybody is welcome here: if they > > need us to answer questions that should be fine. > > I think it's worth considering the fact that new co

Re: Bugs?

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 10, 2025, Lee Winter wrote: > Got a dell 5400 workstation configured fully (8 cores, 32gb RAM, 160gb > fast disk & 1.0tb slow disk) and I netinstalled debian Bookworm > 12.10.0 on it. I also got the 20 DVDs with 92.5gb of Source packages. > The machine seems OK, but I am finding some [probl

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 10, 2025, songbird wrote: > hello all, some questions at last... it's been a while. :) > > I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them > to my existing setup, but in previous years I recall that there > was some recommendation to leave some part of the SSD unallocated >

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Federico Kircheis wrote: > On 04/07/2025 5:32 pm, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 04 Jul 2025 at 07:04:32 (+0200), Federico Kircheis wrote: > > > Excluding two or three packages is much easier, and the suggested > > > approach of appending a - works perfectly if the package was not > > > installed.

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Federico Kircheis wrote: > On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote: > And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt. > It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core. > It still installs some things I've noticed and to not want, so I need to > inspect which packages are installed, tra

Re: Feature idea: show upstream release dates on packages

2025-07-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Borden wrote: > On a few projects, I've discovered how ancient some software is (like, last > commit more than 15 years ago ancient). Unless I missed something, > `apt-cache show` doesn't show the upstream release date. This runs into problems quickly. Relevant issues include: - no upstream

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-06-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Federico Kircheis wrote: > I could not use tasksel and install only what I want, but then I have to > learn/verify all programs that are required for a functional environment. > Don't use a tasksel desktop. Install one of these metapackages for KDE: kde-full/stable 5:142 amd64 complete KDE S

Re: General question about package building

2025-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Hans wrote: > For my own purposes I want to build a package with my own content. > It will content several wordlists I created and need them as package, when I > build a live image. > > All wordlists shall be in /usr/share/wordlists1/. > > Now my question: Is it correct, that I create a folder

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 25, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/24/25 7:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote: > > > Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett: > > > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > > > > I looking for a USB device to

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-24 Thread Dan Hitt
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 16:33:38 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM wrote: > > > if you want to do everyone a favour, you bounce the original message > > > to to help the list spam team t

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-24 Thread Dan Hitt
that mean forward the message to the report-listspam? Do you need to attach text to it to explain why it is spam? (Is this something i can do from gmail?) Thanks in advance for any info. dan

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 24, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/23/25 9:28 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > [https://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 approaches my goal] > > > > That adafruit one is OK. I'm not a big fan of the MCX connector,

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > > > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debi

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so > I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record > as MP3 for listening at a more convenient tim

Re: unixodbc-bin is not available - what to do?

2025-06-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > I'm trying to install the libraries and drivers required to use a > sqlite3 database with libreoffice writer. However when I try to > install the required packages I get an error:- > > root@t470# apt install unixodbc-dev unixodbc-bin unixodbc > Reading package lists..

Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

2025-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi Dan, thanks for your reply. > > I should precise that the PDF was downloaded. > The poppler-utils package contains: * pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments) * pdfseparate -- page extraction tool * pdfunite -- document merging

Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

2025-06-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi Dan, thanks for your reply. > > I should precise that the PDF was downloaded. Then you're most likely stuck with it. PDF isn't really "editable" in that sense (ignoring Adobe Acrobat or whatever it's called).

Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

2025-06-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PDF file with undesirable attachments: > is there a simple way to delete them ? re-generate the PDF without the embedded files. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 7

Re: OT: Malware that causes insertion point to move randomly?

2025-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, on one of my computers, something was going on that caused my > insertion point to move, quite often, in an incorrect manner. > > Often, on typing any letter, the insertion point would move behind the > character I just typed (such that the next characte

Re: How to mount vfat filesystem read/write?

2025-06-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > I have an SD card which is vfat formatted. There's a file on it that > I want to remove but when automounted it is read only. How can I get > it to mount with write permission? > > This is on debian 12. First, check to see if the SD card has a readonly switch. (Many SD card

Re: when will trixie become stable?

2025-06-08 Thread Dan Ritter
longwi...@yahoo.com wrote: > how big is difference between rc1 and final release? 42* > where can I find such info? > > freebsd seem more transparent in this regard: > > www.freebsd.org/releases/14.3R/schedule/ FreeBSD isn't more transparent; FreeBSD has a different policy. They have target

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-06 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > On 6/6/25 14:44, Dan Ritter wrote: > > ps auwx | grep wm > gene@coyote:~$ ps auwx | grep wm > gene        3863  0.0  0.3 924916 109904 ?       Sl   07:10   0:00 > /usr/bin/akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent --identifier > akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent > ge

Re: virt-manager and networking

2025-06-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Marco Moock wrote: > On 06.06.2025 20:20 Uhr Charles Curley wrote: > > > Is it possible to set things up so that the virtual machines are on > > the same network as the host machine? The host is on > > 192.168.100.0/24. Can I have the virtual machines also on > > 192.168.100.0? > > This is calle

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-06 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > The fly in that soup is that although I thought I''ve installed xfce4 as a > task, htop does not find anything xfce4 listed as running.  AND all the > fetch this and that stuff that has been listed in this thread, supposedly > made to tell what is runnin, are not installed to

Re: Setting up a Thin Client System with Dell Latitude E4300 and OVH VPS

2025-06-05 Thread Dan Ritter
white-wolf wrote: > Hi, > > Apparently, the era of the Minitel is truly over... > 200€ for an acceptable machine, it's clear that given the price of VPS, > my idea is not profitable... > > Another question, how can I offer a managed IT services for > individuals, more or less on a large scale? T

Re: is it possible to use debian with mini PC when display is not connected to hdmi

2025-06-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > > Or unfortunately, firmware will recognize this fact automatically and > > will not allow me to load GRUB and boot The kernel:? > > It's your bios settings, not Debian issue. > > > I do not see at all so I want to use 20 Watts energy comsumption with no > > need to use

Re: Solutions to notify desktop users of new Debian releases

2025-05-31 Thread Dan Ritter
John Scott wrote: > I'm looking to help a couple people I know personally get up and running with > Debian very soon, and I hope to help many more. Speaking from experience, my > primary concern is that Debian on the desktop does not notify users at all > when a new release is made or when the

Re: Compile VLC from source enabling with live555 RTSP streaming support

2025-05-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi folks, > > Our product is using VLC with RTSP support with live555 > (http://www.live555.com/) - which was disabled in Debian because of licensing > changes by live555. > > I want compile VLC with live555 RTSP streaming support, most of the tutorials > or hints I f

Re: amd rx550

2025-05-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Russell L. Harris wrote: > Should I purchase a used computer with AMD RX550 video? I have a Debian desktop with one; it drives 2 4K monitors just fine. I don't play games; that may factor into your decision. -dsr-

Re: How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?

2025-05-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need > the directories > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc > /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi > alongside the already installed > /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi > in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together. > G

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. I > did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upgrade. The upgrade > went through but after I rebooted I did not have any entries in KDE's > application launcher. I created a new acco

Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

2025-05-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 21, 2025, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM BST, Dan Purgert wrote: > > I used /mnt/backup because I only wanted the partition mounted while the > > backup was running (it was one of several on that physical drive). The > > backup script did the m

Re: Repair or Replace

2025-05-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 20, 2025, Steve Matzura wrote: > After a year in storage, I'm trying to get a version 11 system back online. > I connected it to power and network, then booted it. Interestingly, it > appeared on my network not at the address it had when it went into storage, > but one given it by my local D

Re: Trixie - freeze? Questions

2025-05-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > now as trixie is is in frozen state I am asking myself, when best time to > upgrade to trixie. > > My systems are no important product systems, so small failures do not harm > much. > > First question: Would you recommend to upgrade now or just wait until the > o

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 20, 2025, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM BST, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > why not > > > if ! mountpoint /mnt/usb-drive-b ; then ... > > > ? > > > > I'd not heard of either `mountpoint` or `findmnt` before. I see they'

Re: No link with BCM57412 (Broadcom Extreme NetXtreme-E 10Gb)

2025-05-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Mihaly Zachar wrote: > I have never used fibre connection yet. Now I got a server where the HW > (Dell R440) and the network connections are provided by others, my task > is to install a Linux on it. > > I installed a fresh Debian 12, the built-in NIC (BCM5720) is working, it > also can see the

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 19, 2025, Lee wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:04 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > >

Re: Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海 wrote: > When I installed Debian 12.10 on my device : > CPU: 13th GenIntel Core i5-13500x20 > Graphic:Mesa intel UHD Graphics 770(ADL-S GT1) > Memery: 16G > During the installation, it works well, but after finishing the installation, > it will reboot, and then it is stuck wit

Re: kotlin package and dependencies

2025-05-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Federico Kircheis wrote: > I'm using the kotlin package since I wanted to use the kotlinc compiler, and > noticed that it lists following packages as dependencies > > * ant > * libmaven-compiler-plugin-java > * libmaven-plugin-tools-java > * libmaven3-core-java > > > I'm not using ant or ma

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread Dan Ritter
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host > numeric and names > where do they come from Assuming that your shell is bash, it comes from the bash tab completion function, which has an optional package: bash-completion/stable,now 1:2.11-6 all programmabl

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > FYI, some of us have recently re-started an effort to improve the Debian > Wiki. One of the things we need to establish (IMHO) is to determine what > audience the wiki is *for*. For example, it serves a useful function for > Developers, with clusters of pages for Debconfs

Re: "Tips"?

2025-05-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Joe wrote: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager > > Arch Linux, by the way, is based on Debian and has some excellent > documentation, most of which applies to Debian itself. I don't think anyone at the Arch project or the Debian project would say that Arch is based on Debian. It

Re: "Tips"?

2025-05-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Gregory Forster wrote: > Hi, >     On Wednesdays, I volunteer at a Senior Center to teach computers.  Well, > few, if any, showed up. I'm  now known as, "Greg, the gadget guy." helping > people with their cell phones, computers and tablets.  Well, last Wednesday, > nobody showed up for anything. 

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > * If a new machine is genuinely more efficient (and we keep being > >told that they are!), > > The capacity of laptop batteries has been stable around 50-100Wh for > decades, so the detailed and concrete data about potential improvement > in efficiency is readily av

Re: System Crash in LibreOffice When Using Large Fonts with Black Text (Debian, Mint, Kali --Suspected i915 Issue on Debian)

2025-05-09 Thread Dan Purgert
On May 09, 2025, Rohin S Nair wrote: > Dear Debian Team, > > I am experiencing a severe issue on Debian and Debian-based distributions > when using LibreOffice with large fonts. > When attempting to display content particularly with large fonts and black > text the system becomes completely unresp

Re: Issue with ffmpeg hevc_qsv Encoder on Debian Trixie – Unclear Package Responsibility

2025-05-02 Thread Dan Ritter
amir alavi wrote: > Package: ffmpeg > Version: 7:7.1.1-1+b1 > Package: intel-media-va-driver-non-free > Version: 25.1.4+ds1-1 > Dear Maintainers, > I am encountering an issue when attempting to convert files using ffmpeg with > the hevc_qsv encoder (Intel QuickSync) on Debian Trixie. > Previously

Re: Internet connection in rescue mode

2025-05-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicolas George wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02): > > What lesson is that? > > Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it > does. That includes the privilege of being you, a user whose data is close at hand and readable, if not even deletable. Creating a n

Re: route all traffic to a internal socket

2025-05-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > I don't want to use set proxy in firefox and other application, but > I want to send any packets to 127.0.0.1: and my program itself > send to eth0. > > OK, there is an underlying assumption that you are not telling > us. > > Why do you want to do

Re: route all traffic to a internal socket

2025-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: >On 4/30/25 4:29 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Wed Apr 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM BST, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > I want to send any packet to 127.0.0.1: and it sends my packets > to internet. my outgoing interface is eth0. > > You can

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Eben King wrote: > I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to > myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, > just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work > reliably with my email server (which is not gmail). Wh

Re: openssh-server uninstallable

2025-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Andy Wood wrote: > Is anybody else being hit by a problem with openssh-server after the > 1:10.0p1-2 migration into testing the other day? > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > openssh-server : Depends: openssh-client (= 1:9.9p2-2) but 1:10.0p1-2 is to > be installed > E: Unabl

Re: Xpra

2025-04-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Mario Marietto wrote: > ->Thanks. But a full desktop is definitely what I do not want. This is the > great thing about Xpra: like the good old remote X11, but fast and > detachable. > > Exactly. A whole new Linux distro can be made following your approach. The > distro that I have had in mind sin

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