Re: Debian versions

2023-08-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 13:50 -0600, Alan Serrano Peña wrote: > Is there a commercial version of Debian? > Any version with technical support? The Debian project provides the Debian operating system for free and provides technical support for free by volunteers. In addition, there are a number of

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any > package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or > explicitly acquiring privilege of) user. The general idea of a safe way to allow users to manage sys

PSA: anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed

2022-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
Hi folks, If you run Debian testing/unstable and ever installed anacron 2.3-33 on a systemd based system, then anacron will no longer be enabled and the daily/weekly/monthly cron jobs will not be run until it is. Since not all cron jobs have migrated to systemd timers, Debian testing/unstable sys

Re: List-Archive URLs and slashes in Message Ids

2022-08-17 Thread Paul Wise
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > something's wrong with the msgid-search URLs for Message-Ids with "/". This issue has been present for a long time unfortunately. > Does anybody have an idea how to follow the List-Archive hint without > entering the Message-Id part manually into lists.debian.org/msgid-se

Re: Dell UltraSharp WB7022 4K UHD HDR USB Webcam

2022-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
David asks: > Anybody got this camera working on Debian. I don't have this camera, but according to the Linux Hardware website, it supports the generic USB video camera protocol, so should work fine. There is one probe on the site that says the camera works fine too and that the submitter of the

Re: VMD in Debian?

2022-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
Boyan Penkov asked: > Is https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/vmd maintained? > Is there a recommended way to get [vmd] installed in Debian? Looks like that hasn't been touched since 2013. It seems that vmd cannot be included in Debian due to license reasons. Probably you could build a Debian p

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

2022-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
Roman asked: > Can I install Debian operating systems for money for my clients? Yes. You can also get Debian to advertise your services. Register here if you are selling Debian CD/DVD/USB media: https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ Register here if you are selling devices with Debian preinstalle

Re: Bullseye (mostly) not booting on Proliant DL380 G7

2021-06-30 Thread Paul Wise
Claudio Kuenzler wrote: > I currently suspect a Kernel bug in 5.10. You could try booting a bullseye install with the buster kernel, if that works then it sounds like you need a kernel git bisect. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/GitBisect -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise s

Re: Cross compilation error

2021-06-17 Thread Paul Wise
Jonathan Tremesaygues wrote: > If you don’t mind, I would prefer that you take care of the bug > report. Will do. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Cross compilation error

2021-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
tomas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 06:07:00PM +0200, Jonathan Tremesaygues wrote: > > But it is not the job of ’dpkg-buildpackage -a’ to set the > > right compiler and other stuff? Neither the wiki, the manpage nor > > the unofficial guides found on Internet say I have to set manually > > the

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:51 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > I got that tar ball and I think i am doing the right thing, but > something is not going well: The firmware-b43-installer package uses b43-fwcutter to extract the firmware from the tarball, I suggest using firmware-b43-installer instead o

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:43 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > Thank you for all the leads and I was installing > firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all > dependencies firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the > Internet to some lwfinder? > > Resolving http://www.lw

Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community

2019-05-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:27 PM Vipul wrote: > I've been using Debian from couples of years but haven't contributed yet back > to community. There are a number of different ways to contribute to Debian: https://www.debian.org/intro/help > I want to contribute to Debian by maintaining packages a

Re: install archived debian from minimal / network-console image

2018-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:11 PM, basti wrote: > hello, i need to install debian squeeze because newer versions have > different errors for example bug #699667. That particular bug is fixed in jessie and later. If you have any other issues, please report bugs about them. > kernel 3.16 and newer

Re: Frustration over Debian naming

2018-02-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 6:17 AM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Tangentially to that, it seems that someone needs to pick up the dropped > baton and update the pictures. Those are all copies of a diagram by Claudio Filho, if anyone updates it, please send him a pull request to update the offic

Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ?

2017-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Yanhao Mo wrote: > but what I really want to know is that is there such a list that display > all debian packages with their licenses, just like the following link > about rhel[1]. There is no single list of licenses for each Debian package, just the individual co

Re: [Stable] Trouble with openvpn

2017-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
Try looking at the openvpn logs or systemd journal while you start openvpn via the three different methods. If you compare the logs, you might get a hint about what is happening. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Coorperation

2017-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:21 AM, 李松林 wrote: > I am a sales from Archermind Technology , we work together with Mstar , > and we want to debug Debian os , If you have a specific issue with Debian, please report a bug about it: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting If you are not sure which p

Re: Kicad Installation Issue Regard Of 4.0.4 Its Only Install 4.0.2 In Debian Jessie 8.5

2016-11-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:24 AM, ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > We Are Try To Install Kicad 4.0.4 In Debain Jessie 8.5 But It Only Install > 4.0.2 Can You Please Help Us How To Install Kicad 4.0.4 In Debian Jessie 8.5 > We Are Try To Build And We Try Using PPA But It Install Only Kicad 4.0.2 Please c

Re: Dead links on wiki.debian.org diagrams page

2016-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Thomas Ross wrote: > Well, The files still exist but they are just not in the same spot as > they were before. The links on the wiki will still need to be updated. All done. I've added links to some more of kevix's images. Anyone know of any other Debian diagrams

Re: xscreensaver (5.30-1+deb8u1)

2016-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Norbert Gruener wrote: > Is there a chance that there will be a "newer" version for Debian > Jessie available? You may want to read through the bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/819703 -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Fortunately, this works, but there are sites where doesn't. Do you have any examples of sites that still need Flash? Obviously flash game sites still need it but surely almost all of the web has moved away from it at this point? -- bye

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Fonts providing emojis?

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
A project providing a FLOSS font focused on Emoji: http://www.emojione.com/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.de

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Darius Jahandarie wrote: > Although Debian *developers* can't find and fix all upstream bugs, the > Debian project, as the funnel between code and users, provides an > interesting location to perform this sort of automated static analysis > on all source code flowi

Re: sync apt/dpkg state between systems?

2013-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 11:54 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Do you have a backup of /var/lib/dpkg? Or of /var/backups? Those > contain the state of the previous system. Yes, I have a backup of these directories: /var/lib/aptitude /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/apt /var/cache/apt /var/cache/debconf Sorry,

sync apt/dpkg state between systems?

2013-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
[Please CC me in reply] I recently had a hardware failure and had to reinstall my system. I had a backup of my apt and dpkg state directories (but not /usr). I now want to synchronize the old state to my newly installed system. So, install all packages I had before, with the correct automatically/

Re: Name errors on the Project Participants page.

2012-12-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 22 dec 12, 21:47:38, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 02:28:49PM +0900, Tae Wong wrote: >> > Post errors for names, including spelling errors and more, and the >> > team will fix these errors. Here we go. >> > >> > Deb

Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party!

2012-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
Have you ever wondered how to start getting involved in Debian/Ubuntu? Do you enjoy discovering new games and playing them? You might want to come to the games screenshot party! We hope that the party will be a fun, easy, low-commitment way to get involved. The Debian/Ubuntu games team is organisi

single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: * Siemens SpeedStream 4200. This is an ADSL2+ modem running the supplied OS. It is running in bridge mode, DSL port plugged into

Re: Planning a Debian Pure Blend: Halconix

2011-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Luis Arturo Roa Mora wrote: > * Using the Debian Pure Blend approach. Are you sure about that? It sounds like what you want to do is the opposite of a Debian Pure Blend. > * We plan to use Gnome 2.32 desktop environment for its stability and for > their support o

Re: MediaWiki 1.17.0 new stable release from Wikimedia

2011-07-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, John W Foster wrote: > There is a new stable release from Wikimedia of MediaWiki 1.17.0  Any > idea when we will see it packaged for Debian. It is said to support > substitution// {{subst}} & {{safesubst}} // so that the error message we > are getting with Ver. 1.

Debian on smartphones, how to make it happen!

2011-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Anyone who wants Debian running on their smartphone and is willing to help make it happen, please check out the wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone#Howto If you are interested, please join the #debian-smartphone IRC channel on irc.debian.org to co-ordinate activities. More conta

test

2010-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
test -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1284809607.7334.35.ca...@chianamo

Re: Testing upgrade Failures:

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:29 AM, JW Foster wrote: > I just tried to do an upgrade on testing & I,m getting several errors. > First snip of output is regarding unknown types. I have no idea what > this is but I seen it before. ... > Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-alchemy' ... Found via G

Re: Xorg epilepsy?

2009-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 23:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Recently (in the past couple of weeks) my laptop with Debian squeeze > installed starting getting epilepsy when I close the lid and open it > again. By epilepsy I mean the screen flashes as everything redraws > constantly and the

Xorg epilepsy?

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Recently (in the past couple of weeks) my laptop with Debian squeeze installed starting getting epilepsy when I close the lid and open it again. By epilepsy I mean the screen flashes as everything redraws constantly and the mouse cursor jumps diagonally back and forth. Happens no matter wh

Re: New list debian-user-dutch started

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > If you have an idea how to give this more publicity, I am interested to > know how. Mention it on debian lists whenever a user uses Dutch on the wrong list. Mention it on the Debian microblogging site: http://twitter.debian.net/ Mentio

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the R61 I could not get my wifi working. > Here is an some of the output of dmesg: > [ 64.897496] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection > driver for Linux, 1.2.23ks You have wireless hardware t

last chance to participate in the Debian user survey

2008-05-27 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, The deadline for submissions for the Debian user survey is fast approaching (1am UTC June 1 2008), after this the survey will be closed and mails to the survey address will be rejected. So if you would like to participate, please reply to this mail: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2

closing the Debian user survey soon

2008-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I'll soon be closing the Debian-user survey. The deadline for submissions is now 1am UTC time on the 1st of June 2008, after this the survey will be closed and mails to the survey address will be rejected. So if you would like to participate, please reply to this mail: http://lists.debi

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 21:51 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Since one of Debian's priorities is our users, I'd like to see a "bits > from the users" on d-d-a (debian-devel-announce). I also had the thought > of a separate email for developers only on d-p (debian-private) an

bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, [Please CC me in all replies] We've had bits from the DPL (Debian Project Leader)[1][2], bits from the release team[3], bits from the listmasters[4] and bits from other people and groups within Debian[5][6][7][8][9]. "Bits from someone" simply means interesting news and other information

Re: DSL modems over USB?

2008-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 01:21 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Why not place hub or switch between modem and other computers... Don't have one and all the computers only have 1 ethernet. Anyway, not important since most of the time only one computer needs Internet. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/

Re: DSL modems over USB?

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 22:29 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > As I see web pages, Speedstream 4200 supports ethernet too. Why not > connect it by ethernet unless you have some feature limitted version. I wanted to connect 2 computers to it - one via USB and one via DHCP. After finding the drivers fo

DSL modems over USB?

2008-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, [Please CC me on any replies] Does GNU/Linux have any support for using DSL modems over USB? I'm mainly interested in the Speedstream 4200 since I'm at a house that uses it :( lsusb: Bus 004 Device 003: ID 067c:e240 Efficient Networks, Inc. Device Descriptor: bLength1

Re: disable mounting of bogus CD device on Toshiba USB stick?

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Wise
They are two separate devices, the cdrom one is not writable, and k3b can't burn stuff to it either. Hopefully the U3 uninstaller will work. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: disable mounting of bogus CD device on Toshiba USB stick?

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 21:19 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > What you have appears to be one of those U3 drives. Visit > http://www.u3.com/uninstall and you will find an uninstall utility using > which you can disable the cdrom 'feature'. Unfortunately, the > uninstaller runs only on windows,

disable mounting of bogus CD device on Toshiba USB stick?

2007-11-04 Thread Paul Wise
Hi, [As indicated in the Reply-To, please CC me on any replies] I got a Toshiba USB stick recently. It exposes two devices; a normal writable USB mass storage device, and a faked USB optical drive. The optical drive contains some windows apps for what seems to be a management application for port

Re: hwclock & /dev/rtc

2007-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:21 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Apologies to Mumia and to Paul: I habitually removal of the original > poster's address and only reply to the list. So, habit bit even though > the explicit request was made to reply directly. My fault, should have been more careful with

Re: hwclock & /dev/rtc

2007-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
[please CC me, I'm not subscribed] On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:36 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > $ lsmod|grep rtc > > rtc12372 0 # lsmod|grep rtc rtc12760 0 I have the rtc module loaded already and hwclock only works when --directisa is used. For now I've mo

hwclock & /dev/rtc

2007-06-02 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, [Please CC me, I'm not subscribed] Can anyone tell me why hwclock --directisa works on this laptop (Dell Inspirion) but /dev/rtc does not (linux 2.6.21 from Debian sid)? # hwclock --directisa --show Fri Jun 1 15:36:11 2007 -0.377827 seconds # hwclock --show select() to /dev/rtc to wai

Re: Gnome in testing

2006-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
Joseph Smidt wrote: > I believe you, however why does distrowatch still say testing only has > gnome 2.10: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian Perhaps they track it manually? > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/meta-gnome2.html still says gnome 2.12 > has still not entered testing

Re: why debian

2004-11-14 Thread paul wise
> apt-get install anarchism I prefer the tshirt version: http://laughingmeme.org/img/release-candidate-1.png -- Bye, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gaim encryption fails to compile

2004-11-10 Thread paul wise
etc...). Hmmm, does anyone have any idea if someone plans to make a gaim-dev package for debian. -- Bye, Paul Wise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread paul wise
; the kernel-source. You can reduce all this stuff to: apt-get install module-assistant module-assistant update module-assistant auto-install nvidia -- Bye, Paul Wise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: client side DNS

2004-10-19 Thread paul wise
rch_contents.pl?word=dig&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=testing http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=nslookup&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=testing -- Bye, Paul Wise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w