Server rental (OT)

2022-07-24 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! I'm in the process of renting some servers. Would you suggest I configure my 3 x 2 TV HDD as a RAID group ? Or would this be somewhat useless because the service provider (who rents the rack) already does some maintenance and preventive work ? Thanks -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, B

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2022-04-20 08:39, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside, le mer. 20 avril 2022 08:32:13 -0400, a > ecrit: >> Answer bellow this awful piece of text from someone who doesn't know how >> to make a space between line. > > Fo

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
uot;out of the box" in all situation. Take destiny into your own hand. On 2022-04-20 08:32, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Answer bellow this awful piece of text from someone who doesn't know how > to make a space between line. > > On 2022-04-20 06:04, Devin Prat

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Answer bellow this awful piece of text from someone who doesn't know how to make a space between line. On 2022-04-20 06:04, Devin Prater wrote: > I recently tried to install Debian onto my new laptop. It's an HP > Pavilian (can't remember the exact model sorry) with an AMD Rizon 5500 > processor w

Re: Keep both images but stop pretending no-free is unofficial

2022-04-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2022-04-20 04:06, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 01:25:31PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> Similarly, I think it would be reasonable for someone to want to provide >> entirely free Debian media along with a libre laptop. > > Does this exist in the real wo

Re: Another round of open questions

2022-03-22 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, Answer bellow, On 2022-03-20 12:42, dpl-voter wrote: > Hi Andriy and others, > > Andriy Grytsenko mailto:and...@rep.kiev.ua>> wrote: >> Thanks for the comment. It is so, exactly. The war came to an active >> state, Russian nazis launch missiles over our country, trying to conquer >> and set u

Re: Question Re: Advertising in Packages

2021-08-15 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-08-15 10:16 p.m., Antonio Russo wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question that I originally posed in debian-vote, but was directed > here instead: > >"Can one advertise non-free services in a Debian package? > Is doing so a violation of some Debian policy? > > Again, if this is

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-08-12 2:25 a.m., Brian Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 11:19 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:12:37AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: >>> Would you agree that there is an issue with sudo access that is >>> enabled >>> by default on most Debian and Deb

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-20 10:07 p.m., Brian Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 2021-07-20 at 21:13 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> Ended up with a 3 month useless discussion regarding if this would >> give >> a bad impression, that we need to use node for doing develo

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, > Hi Holger, I would have expected a reply like this from you. I do still > use Debian, some of my boxes are still Debian-based. Soon they will > probably be converted to Devuan though. I do still contribute to > Debian, mainly to Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. As long as > these por

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-20 5:51 p.m., Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:15:33PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > [...] >> Debian, the Universal Operating System was used some years ago! > > Svante, fine. You are unhappy with Debian since years, you're not using it > anymore, you are not cont

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, > It is really stunning that the Debian project, including the TC > overrides the dpkg developer and maintainer Guillem, and still using > dpkg for package management. Maybe Debian should switch to some other > software, like rpm-based used by Fedora or even guix used by GNU?? Or > perhaps the

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-20 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-20 3:30 p.m., Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:47:04 +0200, Svante Signell > wrote: >> According to the dpkg developer and maintainer Guillem users can still >> rescue their systems from merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs with the aid of >> dpkg-fsys-usrunmess(8), see >> http

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-18 7:21 p.m., Russ Allbery wrote: > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside writes: > >> Here's my actual config (with 2TB) and yes I have a separate /home > >> What is tmpfs and why is it set to 3.2 GB ? > > tmpfs is a RAM-backed temporary file syste

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-18 6:17 p.m., Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 19, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> So if I get it right... > Except for /boot/, which may be required for technical reasons, there > is no need to further partition your file system unless you actuall

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hello (Hi) ! On 2021-07-18 5:07 p.m., Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I think all of this is quite clearly explained in: > > https://salsa.debian.org/md/usrmerge/raw/master/debian/README.Debian > > which is linked from: > > https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge > > If you think it's not the

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-18 5:07 p.m., Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> My personal opinion is that Debian is going into a mostly "we got the >> best idea in the world but forgot that not

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-18 5:31 p.m., Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, is it OK to forward your mail to debian-devel. I don't think > mailing to debian-user will have any effect on this issue? > Sure ! Honestly it's my mistake to have sent it to debian-user. I get everything in one mailbox. I need to have thi

Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

2021-06-14 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-06-14 12:55 p.m., Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:23:45 -0700, John E Petersen > wrote: >> Thanks Paul, but I'm having a hard time finding the precise version I would >> like to archive on any ftp mirror. My scrape is actually working quite >> correctly now, though, since I ad

Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

2021-06-14 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-14 8:13 a.m., Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 04:47:26PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> This is why your address is being blocked and will continue to do so. > > Writing something like this runs the risk of giving the imp

Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

2021-06-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-12 8:19 p.m., Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 8:15 PM John E Petersen wrote: > >> If I find it is possible to simply download the entire collection, without >> having to host a mirror, I may very well go that route. > > That is definitely possible, there are two sides

Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, > If you are talking about a separate repository to the existing > repository, that sounds like a Debian derivative. Personally I would > encourage people to contribute to Debian rather than starting new > derivatives, except for experiments that will be re-integrated into > Debian. > > https

Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! I'm currently renting a server in a rack. It's not overly powerful but still does the job. I'd like to setup a Debian repository for the community but maybe this will take too much bandwidth. Yes, what I got is unlimited but I must respect a fair use policy. So if someone has some stats about

Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

2021-06-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
iately without being blocked?* > I'm asking permission from the community as a whole, which is why I am > asking the developer mailing list as a whole. If you do not know the > answer to my question, what was the purpose of your ridiculous retorts? > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 9:52 AM

Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

2021-06-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-12 12:21 p.m., John E Petersen wrote: > Hey folks, I’m developing a unique kernel based on Debian Linux, and > I’ve been scraping the website for repositories. After a few thousand, > the servers start to block my ip.  > > I’m just trying to keep the crazy government out of Linux,

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-05 1:01 p.m., Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 03:04:45PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Any of the boards from pine64.org should do and as far as I know have >> quite good support (i.e. there are Debian Installer images for them) and >> all are 64 bit ;) > > +1 to

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-05 12:24 p.m., Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 04:39:08 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> I always appreciate all opinions. But what I surely dislike is people >> that put others option down to raiser their own. > > If that was ta

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-05 4:50 a.m., Christoph Biedl wrote: > Marc Haber wrote... > >> I'd still consider the Raspberry Pi. It's unfortunate that the binary >> non-free blob is already needed to boot the box even if one doesn't >> need/use the GPU after booting, but it is reasonably common that >> people

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-05 4:08 a.m., Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 01:16:44 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> I'm looking for a ARM platform that can easily run Linux. >> Support using terminal over serial port for booting (no need of a GPU). >> >

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-04 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-05 1:52 a.m., Siji Sunny wrote: > > Hi ! > I'm looking for a ARM platform that can easily run Linux. > Support using terminal over serial port for booting (no need of a GPU). > > I know about the Raspberry PI but the GPU drivers are not open source. > I don't r

ARM architectures

2021-06-04 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! I'm looking for a ARM platform that can easily run Linux. Support using terminal over serial port for booting (no need of a GPU). I know about the Raspberry PI but the GPU drivers are not open source. I don't really need a GPU, if I do need graphics then I could always go with a X over Ethern

Re: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1

2021-05-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-05-29 1:55 p.m., Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On 5/29/21, Holger Wansing wrote: >> >> >> Am 29. Mai 2021 18:33:34 MESZ schrieb "Andrew M.A. Cater" >> : >>> Are you using the unoffcial non-free firmware .iso to install from? >>> >>> Are you installing firmware-amdgpu from the non-fre

Debmirror

2021-05-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! I can't seem to get the debian security updates repository using debmirror. It did work for me to get the standard repository, with both amd64 and i386 plus the sources. But I can't do it with security.debian.org It just wait for ever and will fail. Got any hint ? Here's my command name debm

Re: Debian mirror

2021-05-17 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! On 2021-05-17 11:17 p.m., Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:09 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> >> Hi ! >> Maybe this is not the good mailing list, if so, please let me know which >> one to go to. >> I am making a copy of the

Debian mirror

2021-05-17 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! Maybe this is not the good mailing list, if so, please let me know which one to go to. I am making a copy of the Debian repository. In the past I used both debmirror and aptly. With aptly, I can get a possibility to make snapshot. But I need to sign the new mirror with my own key and it can't