EOMA68-A20 Crowd-funded Laptop and Micro-Desktop

2016-07-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop i've been working on a strategy to make it possible for people to have more control over the hardware that they own, and for it to cost less money for them to do so, long-term. i've had to become an open hardware developer in order to do that. i b

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > which should help answer the question you asked: your work - fantastic > as it is - was *impossible to find*. it doesn't even remotely come up > on the radar of queries. *nobody knows what you've ach

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to apologise for my mail I sent about two hours ago. I have > overreacted mainly because of the length of the email, CAPS INSIDE and > also because it's a topic which is being discussed for more than a year > and which ma

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
adam, i apologise for not being in a position to reply in-thread: as mentioned previously i tried (via gmane) but the entire discussion is completely missing, and i forgot to ask people in the original post to cc me if they would like an ongoing threaded reply. i also notice that you removed debia

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hi, > > On 17 February 2015 at 18:20, claude juif wrote: >> Really rude answer. Really bad. > > I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in > total. Extremely rude. i did apologise in advance, and explained why i to

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:20 PM, claude juif wrote: > > > 2015-02-17 17:55 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura : >> >> Hi Luke, >> >> On 17 February 2015 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >> wrote: >> > <265 lines of text and counting snipped> >

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
ok, so there's been quite a discussion, both on slashdot, where amazingly the comments that filtered to the top were insightful and respectful, and also here on debian-devel and debian-users. as i normally use gmane to reply (and maintain and respect threads) but this discussion is not *on* gmane,

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: >> >> http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ > > > It's funny that when Wheezy (not Jessie!) came out, nobody complained > that

how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ i've documented the process by which it is possible to run some of the debian desktop window managers (TDE, fvwm, twm etc.) without the need for systemd or libsystemd0 or any components related to systemd whatsoever. the process is not without

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2012-01-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. paul, hi, if you're still on the mad scheme of doing everything in a single box, to give yourself hell _and_ high water f

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: > >      * Siemens SpeedStream 4200. This is an ADSL2+ modem running the >        supplied

Re: Bug#636123: Info received (Bug#636123: linux-image-2.6.39-2-amd64: root filesystem not recognised -> new bug report)

2011-10-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
right - _finally_ i've encountered a requirement to upgrade a 2nd system that has lvm2 and (in this 2nd case 2.6.18-486) a linux kernel image, and have encountered the *exact* same problem as is in bugs 636123 and 638896. this time, however, i was anticipating that something might go wrong, so was

DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

2011-09-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any reason, should you buy WD "Green" drives. i've just spent a hair-raising 6 weeks discovering that these drives, when pushed above a mere 40 Centigrade, become so unstable that they can actually become completely unresponsive, shut down,

Re: linux-image-2.6.39 not booting due to older package (not in list of dependencies!)

2011-08-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > now, i've discussed this on the bugtracker and there clearly isn't - > and really shouldn't be - a listed debian dependency between > linux-image-2.6.39 kernel and a userspace library.  however

linux-image-2.6.39 not booting due to older package (not in list of dependencies!)

2011-08-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636123 there's a rather complex set of interdependencies between linux-image-2.6.39, libdevmapper, initramfs-tools and LVM that has resulted in a system which last had 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 installed (and associated packages) failing to boot when the l

Re: 2.6.39-amd64 lvm-based root: fails to boot

2011-07-31 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > folks, hi, > > bug reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636123 > > i was wondering if anyone else has a similar configuration (booting > off of root LVM partitions) and had encountered

2.6.39-amd64 lvm-based root: fails to boot

2011-07-31 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
folks, hi, bug reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636123 i was wondering if anyone else has a similar configuration (booting off of root LVM partitions) and had encountered similar issues of root filesystems being unrecognised. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Experiences on using zram with ARM?

2011-07-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
zram... there actually exists something called "Z-Ram", it was bought by one of the major companies: it's actually 3D (stacked) ram and thus you get a significantly higher memory density. thus, the use of the name "zram" caused some confusion, that you had access to this quite rare type of RAM mem

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-07-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Philip Hands wrote: >>  ok, i bring in phil now, who i was talking to yesterday about this. >> what he said was (and i may get this wrong: it only went in partly) - >> something along the lines of "remember to build the drives with >> individual mdadm bitmaps enab

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:26 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > [2011.06.26.1634 +0200]: >> > Search manpage for "partitions". >> >>  that's odd.  i read around each part (man mdadm^M /partitions^M), >>  para

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:11 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > [2011.06.26.1241 +0200]: >>  * is there an option to mdadm to make it display UUIDs instead of or >> as well as the disk name? > > mdadm -Es oo! yaay! there is, ho

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Anyway the long and short of it is, I can use mdadm without regard to > what devices are found, such as /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc and the like as I > rely purely on the UUID functionality, which as you know, mdadm handles > perfectly

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I hear what you are saying, but I had a related problem which was similar. well... it's funny, because this is exactly what i need. > Anyway the long and short of it is, I can use mdadm without regard to > what devices are found, s

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
ep or concerned for our future food supply i'd find a lamb head-butting fence posts incredibly funny. On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 8:26 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > [2011.06.25.1938 +0200]: >> mdadm i can confirm goes and hunts down the symlink

mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
UUIDs internally? tia, [martin's reply] On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 8:26 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > [2011.06.25.1938 +0200]: >> mdadm i can confirm goes and hunts down the symlinks and adds >> /dev/sdd!  i don

potential debian GPL violation needs investigating

2010-12-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://www.limefree.org/download/TWR-MPC5125-Recovering-File-System.rar http://www.limefree.org/down.asp not entirely sure whom should be notified but this needs to be investigated. has anyone encountered any LimeOS products at actual retail stores in Copyright-enforcing countries? whilst i know

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Oscar Morante wrote: > Have you seen this project [1]? It looks like they have been already > thinking about the git+bittorrent idea. > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/ yes. it's effectively shelved. the name "gittorrent" was abandoned and the name "mi

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Just - Wow... thanks! > > Hopefully digesting of this tasty post would not cause too much of farting ;-) :) > seems might be worth adding (if I am not missing the point), then the > concept of "derivatives" would then converge finally

following in footsteps of open-pandora.org with a 100% free software laptop - anyone interested?

2010-04-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i'm contacting this list because i believe that it will have a high concentration of people who may be interested in having a non-Intel-based 100% free software compatible laptop: if i am mistaken in that assumption, i apologise: feel free to hit delete and ignore this message. in order to avoid s

Re: [SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:59:21AM -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Russell Coker wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 03:01, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's actually disabled again (compiled in but disabled) in SuSE because > > > the performance hit was muc

[SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
This is a status / progress report for Debian / SE/Linux integration. I look forward to the day when it need no longer be maintained, which will be when all of the outstanding issues have been addressed. The constant work-in-progress version of this report will always be available from: h

utterly strange single-pixel font problem

2004-04-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi, i have installed a lot of debian systems and this one is the strangest and most frustrating issue i've ever come across, and i seriously need help or i will blow this machine away with a reinstall. yes, that's right - a debian system that i will be forced to treat as lowlife scum like windows: