Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Hans
Hello Alexander, thank you very much for your response. > Short answer: Not usable. Hmm, that is a pity. > Long answer: > As a rule of thumb, never trust AliExpress product descriptions. > You have to always look up _specifications_ on Intel official website or > websites of other vendors.Sel

Re: OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 11:37:03AM +0100, john doe wrote: > This person is known to try to flame a conversation and is also doing > that kind of trolling on the dnsmasq mailing list. Meanwhile over on debian-devel they are applying cluebats to screen reader users for top posting. Just not a

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I am frustrated that I cannot perceive any performance improvements in > CPUs since the 4th Gen i7s. This is likely due to the software I use > does not gain any perceptible improvement from running on > a faster CPU? Not really, it's simply that, since the end of [Dennard scaling](https://en.wi

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread George at Clug
On Monday, 25-11-2024 at 04:29 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. With only 4 GB, I'm not interested in that > laptop, > but I was maybe most concerned about S-mode (in Windows). Me too. There are many Windows programs I like to install that I do not want to install f

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread George at Clug
On Monday, 25-11-2024 at 03:39 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > a CPU that is less than the performance of an i5. > > Side note: such a description is not very useful because a 10 year old > i7 can be significantly less powerful than a recent i3. While ymmv is valid, I favour i7 CPUs (and Ryzen 7) ov

Re: OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread Bitfox
On 2024-11-25 01:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: For $DEITY's sake, folks. Try to stick to the message, not the person. Everything else makes a mailing list unlivable. Totally agree with you Tomas. Everyone's knowledge background is different, like me who is a beginner. The community should tr

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Re: utelnetd

2024-11-24 Thread peter
From: Greg Wooledge Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:23:38 -0500 > ... inetutils-telnetd which should work out of the box. Of course. Used for years and working now. From: Greg Wooledge Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:41:11 -0500 > Now, I have absolutely no idea what this "utelnetd" does, .

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread rhkramer
Thanks to all who replied. With only 4 GB, I'm not interested in that laptop, but I was maybe most concerned about S-mode (in Windows). I assume that would not keep me from installing Linux, I mean, presumably I can still get into the BIOS (or the newer (to me) style of BIOS) and load Linux fr

Re: utelnetd

2024-11-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/11/2024 23:11, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: An embedded system may have one terminal connected. A connection to an external network is not necessary for communication between utelnetd and telnet client. If the connected system is also connected to an external network, a firewall can prevent i

Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-24 Thread Charlie Gibbs
I have a 20-year-old box which was nonetheless enough to run Debian Bookworm (12.5) - but the video card, equipped with an Nvidia GeForce 610 GPU, was too old. I was getting messages on boot saying that it was only supported by drivers up to version 390, while Bookworm doesn't support drivers tha

Re: utelnetd

2024-11-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
peter wrote: > Retrieved utelnetd 0.1.11 from here. > https://public.pengutronix.de/software/utelnetd/ OK, let's look at this thing. The tarball from the above web site contains: hobbit:~/tmp$ tar tzvf ~/Downloads/utelnetd-0.1.11.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x frogger/frogger 0 2008-08-11 05:44 utelnetd-0

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 12:52 PM wrote: > > Ahh, ok, thanks -- that's pretty clear that there is no memory slot, and, even > though I wouldn't use the laptop for much -- to demo some software "on the > road", 4 MB is very limiting. The SSD might be soldered onto the motherboard, too. I found that

make X11 screen agnostic for media center on receiver

2024-11-24 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi all, tl;dr: how do I set a fixed resolution on X/XFCE and make debian not care what's on the display end? Full story: I'd like to run Kodi media center or similar on a debian 11 machine that's connected to my receiver via hdmi. The machine is an intel N100 and provides graphics, too. When

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 24.11.2024 14:21, Hans wrote: Following the discussion here, iI would like to ask something. I discovered some small laptops (10 inch and 7 inch), with an Intel N100 processor, up to 16 GB RAM and ump to 1 TB disk. But shipped with windows. 2 questions: 1. Does one have any experience, if

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread rhkramer
Ahh, ok, thanks -- that's pretty clear that there is no memory slot, and, even though I wouldn't use the laptop for much -- to demo some software "on the road", 4 MB is very limiting. On Saturday, November 23, 2024 06:39:12 PM George at Clug wrote: > The link you provided about the Laptop states

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 10:07:57PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 03:38:56PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I see an attractive deal on a laptop that is shipped with Windows 11 in > > S-mode > > > > I assume (I know), but am not sure that I will be able to load L

OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread john doe
On 11/24/24 09:51, Geert Stappers wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 10:07:57PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 03:38:56PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Groeten Geert Stappers > This person is known to try to flame a conversation and is also doing that kind of trolling

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread tomas
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 09:51:16AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: [...] > Way too kind. > > Calling cheap asses cheap asses is IMNSHO better kindness for mankind. Don't be so harsh on people. Rather be harsh on the corps fleecing them. Trying to get a cheap computer is understandable if your bud

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Hans
Following the discussion here, iI would like to ask something. I discovered some small laptops (10 inch and 7 inch), with an Intel N100 processor, up to 16 GB RAM and ump to 1 TB disk. But shipped with windows. 2 questions: 1. Does one have any experience, if the N100 cpu is usable for fluent

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Hans wrote: > I discovered some small laptops (10 inch and 7 inch), with an Intel N100 > processor, up to 16 GB RAM and ump to 1 TB disk. But shipped with windows. > > 2 questions: > > 1. Does one have any experience, if the N100 cpu is usable for fluently work? > These processors are also b

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 12:34:17PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > But let me ask you, do you complain to those that quote all or most of the > previous posts in a thread when they have no relevant comment about most of > what they've quoted? Now and then, yes. Though it often doesn't have m

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread rhkramer
You're mostly right, I'm not terribly sorry, but I don't use it on every email or post I make -- on debian-user typically only the first post in a thread I might start or possibly in the first comment I make to a thread. I've fixed the sig separator. But let me ask you, do you complain to those

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> a CPU that is less than the performance of an i5. Side note: such a description is not very useful because a 10 year old i7 can be significantly less powerful than a recent i3. Stefan

Re: OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread tomas
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 11:37:03AM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 11/24/24 09:51, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 10:07:57PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 03:38:56PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Groeten > > Geert Stappers > > > > This person

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 05:56:25PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I have a 20-year-old box which was nonetheless enough to run Debian > Bookworm (12.5) - but the video card, equipped with an Nvidia GeForce > 610 GPU, was too old. I was getting messages on boot saying that it > was only supported by

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-24 Thread George at Clug
Charlie, I think this is what you are looking for (and what I use). # nano /etc/default/grub https://wiki.debian.org/Grub The configuration file is /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but you shouldn't edit it directly. This file is generated by grub v2's update-grub(8)... To configure grub "v2", you should ed