Re: CentOS8 VM

2023-02-24 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 25.02.2023 um 05:33 schrieb Robert McBroom via users > : > > Installed CentOS8 on a VM from > > CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso > > Trying to update it gives > > Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream' > Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream' > > I have the rp

Re: CentOS8 VM

2023-02-24 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-02-24 at 23:33 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Installed CentOS8 on a VM from > > CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso > > Trying to update it gives > > Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream' > Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream' You're really post

CentOS8 VM

2023-02-24 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Installed CentOS8 on a VM from CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso Trying to update it gives Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream' Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream' I have the rpm's on a local repository but disabling the repos has no effect on the error and will

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

2023-02-24 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:40 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 2/22/23 16:17, Barry wrote: > > > > Please post under not above what you are commenting on. > > And while you're at it, trim out the parts of the post you're > responding to that aren't relevant, like the boilerplate at the bottom. Also, Ge

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

2023-02-24 Thread Scott Beamer
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Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Go Canes
[quoting is a bit improper here - I have tried to fix it where I noticed] On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:15 PM John Mellor wrote: >> and Go Canes replied > At this point, I doubt that EXT2 is better debugged than BTRFS, and its use > has a number of detrimental effects. For one, it requires that yo

How to create a Fedora 37 image for AWS

2023-02-24 Thread Thomas Cameron via users
Hey, all! I work for AWS, and I put together a quick HOWTO on setting up a Fedora 37 instance using KVM, and then converting it to a format that can be used to create a new EC2 instance on AWS. Note that this is a personal project, is not endorsed by AWS, and was not produced by AWS. It’s just

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Feb 24, 2023, at 09:31, John Mellor wrote: > > Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes > anyway. Nice. So you can casually disregard any comment right away. Clever. > We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora. > However, there

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread John Mellor
Comments inline in blue (sorry to any monocolour readers on this list): On 2023-02-24 12:20 p.m., Go Canes wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: 1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partition? It is no longer required, as the boot process has been able to u

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/24/2023 3:28 PM, John Mellor wrote: On 2023-02-24 12:46 p.m., GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 24/02/2023 15:31, John Mellor wrote: Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora. However,

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-02-24 12:46 p.m., GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 24/02/2023 15:31, John Mellor wrote: Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora. However, there has been almost nothing done to take

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

2023-02-24 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 2/24/23 04:45, t_pol wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:30:21 -0500 Robert McBroom via users wrote: I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread GianPiero Puccioni
On 24/02/2023 15:31, John Mellor wrote: Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora. However, there has been almost nothing done to take advantage of its capabilities. Personally, default

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 8:31 AM John Mellor wrote: > 6) Compression is not the default. Why not? SSDs are 10x slower and > disks are 100x slower than the processors of even 10 years ago, so this > omission is slowing the system down. > I thought zstd level 1 was the default for SSDs and level

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Bill C
I believe LSB calls for the eventual migration to btrfs as default filesystem. For Linux in general from ext. On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 12:18 PM John Mellor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: > > . . . (snipped) > > 1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partit

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: > 1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partition? It is > no longer required, as the boot process has been able to use BTRFS for > years now. /boot is critical and using a well debugged file system for it to me seems like an exce

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread John Mellor
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: . . . (snipped) 1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partition? It is no longer required, as the boot process has been able to use BTRFS for years now. . . . (snipped) On 2023-02-24 09:38, Bill C wrote:

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

2023-02-24 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 2/24/23 04:45, t_pol wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:30:21 -0500 Robert McBroom via users wrote: I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Bill C
Ending of ext? Hopefully never. They are like the fats, old reliable, and over course featureless or simple imo. On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: > Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes > anyway. > > We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem

Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread John Mellor
Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora.  However, there has been almost nothing done to take advantage of its capabilities.  This leads to some obvious questions about future work:

Re: Speech to text software in a Fedora Linux environment

2023-02-24 Thread Ed K
On Thu, 2023-02-23 at 22:32 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Just curious, why did you have to reinstall F37 specifically to run > Whisper? > > Ranjan Longish story: I had whisper running on my main development laptop which is an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX. Originally I was able to install the ROCm tool

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

2023-02-24 Thread t_pol
On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:30:21 -0500 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a > while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. > Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a > gene