Re: appimage magic

2024-11-12 Thread Anssi Saari
fxkl4...@protonmail.com writes: > i don't see anything in that about appimage AppImages are ELF binaries. So the answer to your question "how does my debian powered device know what to do", is that it knows how to run ELF format binaries. I'd assume there are technical descriptions available on h

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Chris Green writes: > But there is no Python 2 available for Debian 12... That's just what's in the package manager. Python source code is available and from that any Python version can be built. Pyenv is a tool which makes that easy.

Re: How do I submit a game to a distribution?

2024-11-12 Thread debian-user
Steven Peckham wrote: > >I would really want to address this in detail after the Copyright > >goes through. > >No. After the Copyright is in effect, I will be happy to provide the > >code under the GPL3 license restrictions. It doesn't sound like you understand copyright and licensing very well.

Re: why this new stick fail to boot

2024-11-12 Thread hlyg
easiest way to identify usb3 is look at color, both connector and connectee shall be blue after i install freebsd and reboot, POST can't finish, i have to unplug power cord it's easy to explain why booting is bug-prone, it involves 2 parties, bios maker and OS developer at first i thoug

Re: why this new stick fail to boot

2024-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
hlyg wrote: > > easiest way to identify usb3 is look at color, both connector and connectee > shall be blue As it turns out, that's not a requirement. USB A ports can be white, black, blue, red, yellow, green, teal or purple... or pretty much any other color in the future. It's normal for a ma

Re: appimage magic

2024-11-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 05:14:50 (+), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 02:47:21 (+), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > >> i down loaded super_program.appimage > >> on the command line i type ./super_program.appimage > >> how do

Re: How do I submit a game to a distribution?

2024-11-12 Thread Steven Peckham
On Monday, November 11, 2024 at 11:53:07 PM EST, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 6:42 PM Steven Peckham wrote: Hi, I retired and decided to learn some computer languages. I wrote an Adventure game in C++ (mostly just C using SDL to handle the screen and sounds) in orde

Re: why this new stick fail to boot

2024-11-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 22:52:09 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > > /var/log/installer/syslog might not be helpful, because everything > proceeds smoothly and normally during installation Agreed. The idea was to see the verbose context in which any Grub-install error and warning messages would be discovered.

Re: why this new stick fail to boot

2024-11-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/12/24 1:52 PM, David Wright wrote: [snip] I don't know how one tells USB2 and USB3 sticks apart,... https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22identify%22%20%22USB2%22%20%22USB3%22 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/112143/which-usb-slot-is-2-0-or-3-0-how-do-i-know https://forums.t

Re: why this new stick fail to boot

2024-11-12 Thread tomas
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 06:07:48PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > hlyg wrote: > > > > easiest way to identify usb3 is look at color, both connector and connectee > > shall be blue > > As it turns out, that's not a requirement. Just a recommendation: "USB 3.0 Type-A and B connectors are usually b

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-12 Thread Chris Green
Anssi Saari wrote: > Chris Green writes: > > > But there is no Python 2 available for Debian 12... > > That's just what's in the package manager. Python source code is > available and from that any Python version can be built. Pyenv is a tool > which makes that easy. It's not just Python 2, it

Re: lsb_release interface

2024-11-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:24:59 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 10:08:18AM +, Corey wrote: > > Hello > > > > Do you know in C language what's the better way to get the info like the > > output by lsb_release? > > > > $ lsb_release -cd > > Description:Ubuntu

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> With multi-seat (ISTR the term originated at Redhat), people started > to re-invent what a "user session" means. In a confusingly and quite > irritatingly new manner, mind you. So you now (yay!) can have two Gnome > sessions. But you pay the price that a Gnome session is quite a different > beast

lsb_release interface

2024-11-12 Thread Corey
Hello Do you know in C language what's the better way to get the info like the output by lsb_release? $ lsb_release -cd Description:Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Codename: jammy i know there is system call. but is there a native way? Thanks.

Re: lsb_release interface

2024-11-12 Thread tomas
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 10:08:18AM +, Corey wrote: > Hello > > Do you know in C language what's the better way to get the info like the > output by lsb_release? > > $ lsb_release -cd > Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS > Codename: jammy > > > i know there is system call. but is there a