Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-08 Thread Joril via Dng
On 09/04/20 03:56, terryc wrote: This is a hardware question. Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed devuan onto? How difficult was it? HP db1043nl, installed Beowulf in... November? Wifi and graphics drivers didn't work out of the box, so I had to use another ma

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-08 Thread tom
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:56:07 +1000 terryc wrote: > This is a hardware question. > Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed > devuan onto? > How difficult was it? > > Thank You In Advance. > > The long story; I finally have a need to purchase my own personal > laptop

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-08 Thread Rod Rodolico
I tend to purchase used equipment from a refurbisher, so this is old equipment. Dell Latitude E6440 installs fine, but bluetooth does not have drivers that I can find. Some weird Dell labeled part. There was some stuff on their site indicating you could make it work, but I'm lazy so I used a USB d

Re: [DNG] A way of holding telephone-conferences with DEVUAN?

2020-04-08 Thread Rod Rodolico
Did a little test of Jitsi tonight. First thing is there were no appreciable cpu or memory requirement increase when multiple users are connected in a session. However, bandwidth is a consideration. These readings are from the server. Started with two users. Bandwidth was at around 8Mb/s, pretty e

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-08 Thread tempforever
Devuan ascii successfully installed, regularly used on the following laptops: Lenovo Thinkpad T550 -- the sd card reader does not work (think this is a hardware problem though, I did get a refurbished machine) HP Pavillion - not sure the exact model # These next two ran ascii, then upgraded

[DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-08 Thread terryc
This is a hardware question. Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed devuan onto? How difficult was it? Thank You In Advance. The long story; I finally have a need to purchase my own personal laptop and have spent the last few days searching for such a beastie that I

Re: [DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
Simon Hobson wrote on 9/4/20 6:14 am: > It's been a while since I last did anything with VPNs on Linux, and I recall > there being 3 options, some of which were "less well supported" than others. > I'm looking to setup a site-site tunnel so I can remotely access stuff at > mum's (she's in isol

Re: [DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread Rod Rodolico
This is not what you asked for, but I'll put it in anyway. I use vpn appliance distro's for my clients. I either use OPNSense (powerful, more difficult to configure) or IPFire (still pretty good, but simple to configure). I just download the software, install on a device, then configure. Been doing

Re: [DNG] A way of holding telephone-conferences with DEVUAN?

2020-04-08 Thread spiralofhope
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 12:07:56 +0200 Raul Claro wrote: >     is there a way of holding a video- or an audioconference with > Firefox (or Vivaldi) on Devuan?  The ones I have come in contact > with. such als /https://global.gotomeeting.com/, /work only with > Windows or Mac and Chrome. > > A

Re: [DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread g4sra via Dng
On 08/04/2020 21:21, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Wed, 8 Apr 21:14:05 +0100 > Simon Hobson scripsit: >> It's been a while since I last did anything with VPNs on Linux, and I recall >> there being 3 options, some of which were "less well supported" than others. >> I'm looking to s

Re: [DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread Richard Doyle via Dng
On 4/8/20 1:14 PM, Simon Hobson wrote: > It's been a while since I last did anything with VPNs on Linux, and I recall > there being 3 options, some of which were "less well supported" than others. > I'm looking to setup a site-site tunnel so I can remotely access stuff at > mum's (she's in isola

Re: [DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread Simon Hobson
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > vpn easiest way: sshuttle > otherwise just use ssh + vnc (on the mac) Thanks - but not really what I'm looking for. Well something I could do today (or at least, as soon as I pop round to put the Pi in place) is to use SSH and tunnel a local port to the remote machi

Re: [DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2020 Wed, 8 Apr 21:14:05 +0100 Simon Hobson scripsit: > It's been a while since I last did anything with VPNs on Linux, and I recall > there being 3 options, some of which were "less well supported" than others. > I'm looking to setup a site-site tunnel so I can remotely access stuff

[DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

2020-04-08 Thread Simon Hobson
It's been a while since I last did anything with VPNs on Linux, and I recall there being 3 options, some of which were "less well supported" than others. I'm looking to setup a site-site tunnel so I can remotely access stuff at mum's (she's in isolation because of this Covid 19 stuff) and using

Re: [DNG] A way of holding telephone-conferences with DEVUAN?

2020-04-08 Thread tom
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 11:34:19 +0300 Dimitris via Dng wrote: > On 4/7/20 5:17 PM, g4sra via Dng wrote: > > OMG how can you agree with Dal and then go on to suggest the use of > > something cloud based and written in Java ? > > jitsi can be installed anywhere. https://meet.jit.si is cloud based in

Re: [DNG] A way of holding telephone-conferences with DEVUAN?

2020-04-08 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 4/7/20 5:17 PM, g4sra via Dng wrote: > OMG how can you agree with Dal and then go on to suggest the use of something > cloud based and written in Java ? jitsi can be installed anywhere. https://meet.jit.si is cloud based in europe dcs, run by jitsi devs, yes. but you don't have to use that, th