Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Daniel Harris wrote: > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on > earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow Feeling you! My browsing experience has also been steadily declining. I have an i5-6600 with 48 GB of RAM, which is aging, but it shou

Re: homebrew for debian or ubuntu

2023-08-02 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Homebrew only supports the last release or two on MacOS. Today, you > might see support for Version 13: "Ventura" and Version 12: > "Monterey". Anything else and you had to use MacPorts. Or pkgsrc*, which isn't quite as popular but supports (or can be made to support) prett

Vulnerable git in bullseye - what's the process?

2023-01-27 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Hi all, I was surprised to find that the recent git vulnerability hasn't yet been addressed in Bullseye: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-41903 My question isn't about the situation of this package per se but about the process. I found this diagram: https://wiki.debian.org/D

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-27 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Celejar : > I'm curious: do most users of Debian on the desktop (who use MUA > software, as opposed to webmail via a browser) have such a font > installed, or do they see tofu? I too use Sylpheed and get tofu. I must have mistakenly assumed emoji fonts would be installed by default hence this bein

Need to do 'swanctl --load-all' every boot

2021-04-08 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Hi all, I've set up an IPsec + IKEv2 VPN server ('road warrior' set up) on Debian 10 with StrongSwan. It was my understanding that /etc/strongswan.d/swanctl.conf is the modern way to configure it so that's what I did. But now after every boot I have to run 'swanctl --load-all' to be able to be ab

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-04 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Marco Möller wrote: > > In the fairly large number of posts in this thread I don't recall seeing > > file system snapshots suggested. My current preference is ZFS, which I > > know from experience to be up to what I understand to be the goal here. > > (...) > I understand the OP to be in search fo

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-28 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Victor Sudakov wrote: > A production system, especially a desktop system, tends to accumulate > unnecessary packages. Users install software for testing, then forget > about it, or it falls into disuse... > > In FreeBSD, you can always run "pkg delete -a" and return to the > post-install state (we