Will someone please explain (or point to, since it's not in release notes), why:
1: /etc/os-release (in Jessie at least) does not include the point release
version as represented by /etc/debian_version
2: 8.5 (as installed here on host gx62b) is not using the (LTS) 4.4 kernel
--
"The wise are
Hi, I like to install some previous releases, like Debian 8.3 and 7.10. But
I failed to get download page from www.debian.org. How/where can I get
them? Thanks in advance.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, at 19:07, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 01/08/2016 à 00:00, Stephen Powell a écrit :
>> one's processor supports PAE, but the motherboard only supports a maximum of
>> 2 GiB of RAM, what does a PAE kernel buy one? Nothing, as far as I can see.
>
> PAE allows to use the NX/XD b
Le 01/08/2016 à 00:00, Stephen Powell a écrit :
one's processor supports PAE, but the motherboard only supports a maximum of
2 GiB of RAM, what does a PAE kernel buy one? Nothing, as far as I can see.
PAE allows to use the NX/XD bit on CPU which support it to prevent
execution of data memory
On Sunday 31 July 2016 23:00:24 Stephen Powell wrote:
> If you like Ubuntu better than Debian, fine. Use Ubuntu. Nobody's
> stopping you. But don't come over here and try to tell us that we should
> be doing things the way Ubuntu does. We're different for a reason. I'm
> not saying there isn't
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, at 03:46, Brian Wengel wrote:
>
> Dear Debian community
>
> Maybe it’s just me, but as a rather new-comer to the Debian world a few
> things puzzles me.
>
> 1: Going to the download section is like being taken 15 years back. Isn’t
> it time to take the step to move away fro
> On Jul 31, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Brian wrote:
>
> A successful ping is an indication of association between interface and
> AP, although there would be other ways of determining this. It says
> little or nothing about the state of routing. Whatever is being pinged
> needn't have a route to the int
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 15:41:48 +0200
Dimitri Chausson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to report a bug / strange behaviour I noticed since my last Debian OS
>update, but I do not know from which package it originates. The symptoms are
>visible in XFCE 's "wor
On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 10:59:44 +0200
"Brian Wengel" wrote:
> I guess I wasn't cleardon't see my post as a wish or argument for
> larger image sizes or the like. Actually the smaller the better, I
> agree. I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase
> CD/DVD from their brian, and
On 07/31/2016 04:59 AM, Brian Wengel wrote:
I guess I wasn't cleardon't see my post as a wish or argument for
larger image sizes or the like. Actually the smaller the better, I
agree. I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase
CD/DVD from their brian, and only focus on the t
On Sat 30 Jul 2016 at 17:21:47 -0600, ghe wrote:
> Fixing ping made everything all better again -- wicd verifies only on static
> wireless configs. There's a question in my mind why anyone would do that,
> but I'm sure it seemed like a good idea to the programmer.
A successful ping is an indicati
On Sat 30 Jul 2016 at 12:45:50 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 29 Jul 2016 at 16:44:43 -0600, ghe wrote:
>
> > When I set up a static IP, wicd fills in the net mask and the default router
> > automatically. I don't know where it gets the info, but the values and the
> > table are the same as the tab
On 2016-07-31 08:32, Andre Majorel wrote:
On 2016-07-31 10:59 +0200, Brian Wengel wrote:
I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase
CD/DVD from their brian, and only focus on the technologies we
use today and have used for many years.
My main computer, the one on which I'm wr
On 7/31/16, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> Brian Wengel wrote:
>> Are we seriously discussing floppy images? :-P
>
> As said, small is beautiful.
Oh, oh, ohh.. I went back to the thread to find a place for my
last thought. THIS is the place. I debootstrap my Debian in. On
locally provided dialup.
On Sun 31 Jul 2016 at 10:59:44 (+0200), Brian Wengel wrote:
> I guess I wasn't cleardon't see my post as a wish or argument for larger
> image sizes or the like.
> Actually the smaller the better, I agree.
> I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase CD/DVD from their
> bri
Hi,
I want to report a bug / strange behaviour I noticed since my last Debian OS
update, but I do not know from which package it originates. The symptoms are
visible in XFCE 's "workspace switcher".
(http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/pager#workspace_switcher)
Can you give me a matching pack
Le 31/07/2016 à 15:32, Andre Majorel a écrit :
> On 2016-07-31 10:59 +0200, Brian Wengel wrote:
>
>> I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase
>> CD/DVD from their brian, and only focus on the technologies we
>> use today and have used for many years.
> My main computer, the one o
On 2016-07-31 10:59 +0200, Brian Wengel wrote:
> I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase
> CD/DVD from their brian, and only focus on the technologies we
> use today and have used for many years.
My main computer, the one on which I'm writing this, cannot boot
off USB. Install
On 7 July 2016 at 08:06, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> So have you followed the suggestion to test whether it is in fact bash that
> you are in fact using?
>
> lisi@Tux-II:~$ echo $SHELL
> /bin/bash
> lisi@Tux-II:~$
In case anyone is unaware, it might be generally helpful to clarify what
this test actual
On 7/31/16, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 31 July 2016 09:59:44 Brian Wengel wrote:
>> I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase CD/DVD from
>> their brian, and only focus on the technologies we use today and have
>> used
>> for many years.
>
> I'm glad that you are rich and live
On Sunday, July 31, 2016 04:14:37 AM Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 at 08:49, Brian Wengel wrote:
...
> > I’m not saying the images should not be DVD compatible, but make the USB
> > the primary media in guides/naming etc….and perhaps make a link at the
> > bottom of the download pag
On Sunday 31 July 2016 09:59:44 Brian Wengel wrote:
> I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase CD/DVD from
> their brian, and only focus on the technologies we use today and have used
> for many years.
I'm glad that you are rich and live in a rich country. Many aren't and don't
On Sunday 31 July 2016 08:46:36 Brian Wengel wrote:
> Dear Debian community
>
> Maybe it’s just me, but as a rather new-comer to the Debian world a few
> things puzzles me.
>
> 1: Going to the download section is like being taken 15 years back. Isn’t
> it time to take the step to move away from the
Hi,
Brian Wengel wrote:
> Are we seriously discussing floppy images? :-P
As said, small is beautiful.
> I think it was a wrong place to target my post,
> as Mark pointed out
debian-cd mailing list would be my guess.
Nevertheless, it's much of a user related topic, too.
> The debian developer
I guess I wasn't cleardon't see my post as a wish or argument for larger
image sizes or the like.
Actually the smaller the better, I agree.
I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase CD/DVD from their
brian, and only focus on the technologies we use today and have used for
Hi,
Brian Wengel wrote:
> I know the CD/DVD images also work on USB but maybe it’s time to actually
> stop calling it CD/DVD images?
"CD/DVD/BD/WholeDisk" images ?
The feature to boot from USB stick is not bound to USB but rather to the
perception of the booting firmware and kernel, that the dev
On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 at 08:49, Brian Wengel wrote:
> Dear Debian community
>
> Maybe it’s just me, but as a rather new-comer to the Debian world a few
> things puzzles me.
>
> 1: Going to the download section is like being taken 15 years back. Isn’t
> it time to take the step to move away from the
Dear Debian community
Maybe it’s just me, but as a rather new-comer to the Debian world a few
things puzzles me.
1: Going to the download section is like being taken 15 years back. Isn’t
it time to take the step to move away from the CD/DVD media and move into
the USB Flash drive arena?
I know th
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