Re: Why Debian

2013-11-10 Thread Conrad Nelson
t licenses do have an impact how individuals, groups, and businesses will end up using the software. On Nov 9, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2013 09 Nov 10:49 -0600, Conrad Nelson wrote: I like Debian. My only real beef with it is the DFSG. Debian developers (And a lot o

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Conrad Nelson
I left Ubuntu clear back in 2008 when I saw very clearly that their developers (Especially in Canonical.) were starting to care less and less and less about what their community actually wanted. I saw the disastrous integration of Pulseaudio and how the developers and various "authorities" on

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-04 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 11/04/2013 12:22 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Conrad Nelson wrote: On 11/03/2013 10:41 AM, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:21:40 + Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 02:06:06AM +0400, Reco wrote: Well, there are some nice features in systemd

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-04 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 11/04/2013 10:22 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:23:02AM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: I find shell scripts the most efficient way to automate system adin tasks. It could be because I am a programmer, but at least init sc

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-04 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 11/04/2013 04:06 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 03.11.2013 10:23, Marko Randjelovic a écrit : On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:58:45 +0100 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: _ sysvinit scripts are scripts. Scripts needs programming skills, and the sh language does not have an easy to

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-04 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 11/03/2013 10:41 AM, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:21:40 + Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 02:06:06AM +0400, Reco wrote: Linux is way ahead of AIX, FreeBSD and HP-UX in this regard even if using good ol' sysvinit. So, Lennart fixed what wasn't broken in the first pl

Re: ANDROID

2013-10-30 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 10/30/2013 08:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:35:37 +1100 Charlie wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:40:27 -0400 "Celejar cele...@gmail.com" sent this: >The point here is that the FSF, who you consider "the right kind of nuts", *discourages* you from using Debia

Re: ANDROID

2013-10-30 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 10/29/2013 11:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 10:56 -0400, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: I shall want to buy a SMARTPHONE with a free O.S (GNU). Many of my friends say to me that ANDROID is a free system, it is LINUX! What do you think about it? http

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 10/11/2013 09:57 AM, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:50:01 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: MATE from upstream does conflict with other software. This isn't good, it's the most worse I can imagine and likely the reason that distros aren't interested to add it to official repositories

Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/25/2013 07:28 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, which seemed to be wholly unable to boot to anything but Windows 8 - there was no option in t

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/03/2013 12:23 PM, Pascal Obry wrote: Le 03/09/2013 19:00, Mike McGinn a écrit : Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? I understand it will not help but I couldn't resist. Free your son and buy him a device offering standard MTP interface (like Android).

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/03/2013 03:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:24 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: What's wrong with MATE? It could cause conflicts with packages from official repositories. Could, could, could. So what? I've seen conflicts of the same nature in the official re

Re: Thanks

2013-09-02 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/02/2013 03:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 02 September 2013 17:24:56 Conrad Nelson wrote: I used to actually be a big KDE user. I still like it but I've found it's gone from being one of the fastest, but still flexible desktop environments around to being one of the absolu

Re: Thanks

2013-09-02 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/31/2013 06:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 07:01 -0400, Thod Motte wrote: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Don't! I

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/27/2013 12:00 PM, Conrad Nelson wrote: On 08/27/2013 10:22 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 27.08.2013 17:07, Conrad Nelson a écrit : Debian's other problem is this need to split packages. A lot. Debian likes to brag about having a HUGE repository, but when you actually

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/27/2013 10:22 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 27.08.2013 17:07, Conrad Nelson a écrit : Debian's other problem is this need to split packages. A lot. Debian likes to brag about having a HUGE repository, but when you actually look at it, it's actually an AVERAGE repos

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/27/2013 07:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 11:55 +, Curt wrote: What a traitor (or not)! "arch traitor" ;) since I prefer Arch Linux and my explanations might be a "traitor's kiss", since I referred to the KISS principle. I am still a big Arch fan myself. But after

Re: what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-28 Thread Conrad Nelson
Welcome to GNOME 3, the desktop environment that attempts to solve a problem that isn't there and changes things for the sake of changing them. Perhaps you'd like MATE, which is a fork of GNOME 2. On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 09:28 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I finally got my drop down menus back by

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
I'm sorry, but if you're using a 32-bit PAE kernel to address more that 4 GiB of RAM on a *64-bit machine* you are completely and utterly doing it wrong (In fact, you're doing it stupid.). PAE is slower, can't address anywhere near as much as native 64-bit can, and isn't as stable. Heck, even the

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
It is a choice, but if you have a 64-bit machine, just use 64-bit. There's really no reason not to unless you're using some specialized application that doesn't work at all with multilib. And the benefits are nothing to dismiss. For one, you're actually getting the full use of your CPU. 32-bit can

Debian Installer can't see my partition table

2013-06-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
Hello Debian Mailing List, I am trying to go back from Debian Sid to Jessie or Wheezy, but when I run the installer (Latest Wheezy netinst disk image.) and go into manual partitioning, it does not see any of the partitions on my primary hard drive. fdisk sees them with no issue: /dev/sda1

Re: Just a question...........

2013-06-20 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 06/20/2013 06:22 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:19:25PM +1000, Charlie wrote: I don't know enough about this hope someone can help: My ISP CEO suggests that this address is BitTorrent: http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib Is that correct?

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 06/18/2013 11:35 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/06/13 10:35 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need features other than loading the kernel... what crucial work do you do with the features of grub? spreadshe

Re: What's the nick name?

2013-06-17 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 06/17/2013 10:37 AM, Nikolas Kallis wrote: For God's sake, what is the nick name of my Debian? I am using Debian 7.0. For God's sake, it's Wheezy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 05/29/2013 04:47 AM, Matej Kosik wrote: On 28/05/13 16:38, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik<5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Matej, On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following "authentication request" ... attached {etc.} Do

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/25/2012 04:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, "Conrad Nelson" <mailto:y...@marupa.net>> wrote: > Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always

Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
Hello everyone! I have a conundrum for you. Today I had rebooted into Windows to take care of something and when I booted right back into debian, my sound became very very very quiet. To confirm my hardware wasn't on the fritz, I rebooted back into Windows to be greeted with normal volume. Ba

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

2012-09-03 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/03/2012 08:47 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio? Thanks Yes. Pulseaudio is merely a sound daemon, not an actual sound core complete with driver API. PA will need either ALSA or OSS to run on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/29/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:21:30 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: (snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
(snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main and aptitude update aptitude