>> Which laptop option is friendly with Debian,
>> The purpose is related to work, not game.
>
>System76 has usually good and nice offers:
>
> https://system76.com/laptops
I can personally vouch for System76. I bought a Darter Pro (darp5) about 6 years
ago and it's still running well. It could
Charles Curley writes:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:37:58 +0100
> lina wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Which laptop option is friendly with Debian,
>> The purpose is related to work, not game.
>>
>> Mainly for computation, R and some bioinformatic analysis,
>>
>> Ideally at least > 16 cores, decent m
sgroup. This is how I access the list.
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Gregory Forster writes:
> I've been looking on Amazon. Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug
> into my desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux
> 12.8? Everything I find specify s for Windows.
I'm currently using this one in Debian 12, KDE Plasma 5. Works
Hans writes:
> No, I am running Plasma in X as well as XFCE. I am no friend of Wayland, so I
> avoiding it.
>
> Best
>
> Hans
>> So is this a difference between Wayland and X then? You run Plasma in
>> Wayland and XFCE in X since it only runs in X?
Have you tried just going in the Shortcut sett
Chris Green writes:
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 01:39:33AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > > That doesn't make sense. Usenet and NNTP is a different protocol than
>> > > mailing lists and various email
Response below/inline for email Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> (original email sent 6 Feb 2025 at 17:52)
>
> On Wed Feb 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM GMT, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with
>> Koreader as well?
>
> It does, yes.
&
David Wright writes:
> On Thu 06 Feb 2025 at 21:20:18 (+), Russell Stinnett wrote:
>> I didn't realize that the posts would be so delayed, or that they
>> were going through at all. I hoped that they would just outright fail
>> until one finally went through and that would be it.
>>
>> So, a
I'm trying to make it so that I can seemlessly post to the list from the group
view in Gnus as if I was posting to the group.
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to use calibre as an OPDS server but had
forgotten about that capability. OPDS works very well for me with
koreader. I don't need syncing as such, just the capability to easily
download books to my ereader.
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ld this work with Koreader
as well?
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less well.
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ers, just the state
of affairs. We do what we must.
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ever, what depresses me is the number of responses suggesting
increasing memory etc. It's a sad state of affairs we have reached
where simple web browsing (and it *should* be simple) requires such
significant resources. Even banking should not lead to lag in window
management.
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individual commands, e.g.
man bash
which will describe in quite some detail how to use the shell and
man -k somekeyword
will allow to search man pages.
bash itself also has a help system: type "help" :-)
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the space after the two dashes.
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I run an xterm then that, too, has to
> small cursor.
I've tried what Felix suggested and it works just fine with the X
terminal emulator I use (lxterminal). The cursor is nice and big if I
specify a size of 64.
I've not tried other terminal emulators. My window manager is EXWM.
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ms would not work reliably on Firefox (or as the direct app). IME,
Edge is typically MS: doesn't follow Linux standards and is a memory
hog.
Caveat: I now have Teams working with Firefox (separate profile which
doesn't block as many things) so haven't used Edge in a few months.
Response below/inline for email Paul M. Foster wrote:
> (original email sent 8 Oct 2024 at 20:50)
>
> Let me provide a dissenting view. I use "pass".
+1
it allows for a hierarchical representation of the different entries and
bonus marks because there is an excellent Emac
Good news everyone,
Sorry that the question may have already been clarified earlier, but I am
not a regular member of the user mailing list, so I ask it again.
Every time I download the Debian image, I am faced with a moral disorder
and philosophically go on a historical journey into the past, so
everal usefull livesystems (I am
> using XBOOT for this, but it is also working with YUMI or some others.
On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 18:36, Hans wrote:
> Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2024, 17:48:39 CET schrieb Eric S Fraga:
> Me again:
>
> Second answer: You can easily install debian 32-bit fr
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ble SD card in the mess that is my office and will try live booting
different versions.
I am not bothered about DE -- simple WM will do. I just want to run
Emacs with org mode as a portable writing and agenda system.
Thanks again,
eric
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s currently
running with a 2.x kernel!
I have found some bits and bobs on the Interweb but I thought I'd ask
here in case somebody in this group/list has direct experience.
Thank you,
eric
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Thanks, i resolved it!
Il giorno Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:49:16 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater" ha scritto:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 05:36:42PM +0100, s...@gmx.com wrote:
> > i try to install jami on Debian from apt..but i have this problem...
> >
> >
> > jami-dae
27, 2023 at 05:36:42PM +0100, s...@gmx.com wrote:
> > i try to install jami on Debian from apt..but i have this problem...
> >
> >
> > jami-daemon : Dipende: libjsoncpp24 (>= 1.9.4) ma non è installabile
> > Dipende: libyaml-cpp0.6 (>= 0.6.2) ma
i try to install jami on Debian from apt..but i have this problem...
jami-daemon : Dipende: libjsoncpp24 (>= 1.9.4) ma non è installabile
Dipende: libyaml-cpp0.6 (>= 0.6.2) ma non è installabile
libqt-jami : Dipende: libavformat58 (>= 7:4.2) ma non è installabile
Di
It looks like the package is already at the latest version?
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On Monday, 11 Dec 2023 at 07:32, Pocket wrote:
> No it is microsoft non sense
I'm not an MS fanboi but please stop blaming MS for something they did
not invent!
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TeX list/group?
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Untested but shouldn't the \mho be within braces, {\mho}?
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On Friday, 8 Dec 2023 at 17:06, Pocket wrote:
> In Unix and Linux there isn't a file extension, that is a microsoft
> invention.
Predates MS by years. Systems like RSTS/E on PDP-11s, just to name one.
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I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can
print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very
infrequently in any case.
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y, is closer to me
than the desktop which is hidden under the back of my desk.
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On Thursday, 9 Nov 2023 at 12:46, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> You may like pass[1]. It's a bash script which uses gpg, so
> it's somewhat familiar to what you've written in a sense.
+1
*and* it has an Emacs interface which is very easy to use.
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available
again?
Thank you,
eric
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quite recent.
Alternatively, you could post on the mobilread.com forum devoted to all
things calibre: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166
It's a very helpful community, I have found.
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On Sunday, 1 Oct 2023 at 15:25, Joe wrote:
> Calibre converts/creates ebooks and is generally a useful accessory for
> a Kindle or other hardware reader. No, I'm not on commission.
+1 for calibre!
I use it for managing my Kobo devices. Works very well.
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Is there a way to get sunrise and sunset time from command interpreter?
I want to use its output for a script!
i have tried installing sway package in debian bookworm but it was not
displaying any thing and also the terminal was getting stuck in the
login page it self when i tried to run sway in the default terminal. i
have tried this in virtual machine several time still the issues
remians same , pleas
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 09:49:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> There's no point debating any further. S M has a unique desire, which
> is not shared by any other person I've ever heard of, and they're going
> to do what they want.
I didn't mean this to be a d
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 02:12:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> Is command-line editing part of POSIX, then? Are you suggesting that dash is
> missing some bit of POSIX compliance? That's possible.
Command-line editing in vi-mode is defined by POSIX, but it's not mandatory as
far as I know.
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 08:00:51PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:45:04PM -0500, S M wrote:
> > Regarding a workaround, I ended up creating a symlink /usr/local/bin/sh
> > pointing to bash and chsh to that.
>
> Why? Why not simply chsh to /bin/ba
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 04:07:03PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Nothing you wrote here is incorrect, but none of it explains the policy
> change that has occurred. I won't even say it's a bad policy change.
> It makes at least a little bit of sense...
Yeah, I'd also like to know what was the re
Good day.
I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that dpkg-reconfigure no
longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from dash to bash. This is
apparently intentional as per the following:
https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/dash/0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-4
I couldn't fin
On 5/20/23 1:15 PM, Richmond wrote:
As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels
above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I did
wonder if Debian 11 can run with kernel 4.
(Nouveaux is no good to me).
I am using the "nvidia-tesla-450-driver" on Debia
On 5/20/23 1:15 PM, Richmond wrote:
As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels
above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I did
wonder if Debian 11 can run with kernel 4.
(Nouveaux is no good to me).
I am using the "nvidia-tesla-450-driver" on Debia
Corporation GP107GL [Quadro
P1000] (rev a1)
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not remember which model, however). xrandr finds all monitors
successfully.
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0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:6010 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
It was also a good opportunity to learn about XPRA and test it.
Albert
On 2/17/23 22:15, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 17 Feb 2023 at 20:57:38 (-0500), Albert S. wrote
Running “xrandr --size 800x600” on a virtual machine affected both
monitors on my workstation. That was completely unexpected and I am
wondering how to explain that.
Below you will find the detailed description.
I run KVM on a Debian 11 server, which has no monitor or keyboard
attached to it.
.cgi?bug=562765
According to that bug report, the problem is on sid. This is not
surprising? If you want stability, stick to stable releases?
cheese works perfectly for me and has done so for a very long time.
I cannot comment on qemu.
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t; so no big database, best perf, easy backup and no mail losses. Gnus use
> standard gpg for encryption. I use swish for indexing and searching mails.
Pretty much the same for me except for notmuch instead of swish for
indexing/searching. Works very well in all respects including gpg.
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It's annoying that it has just the one big partition and I belatedly
realised I should have repartitioned to have a separate root and home
before copying over all of my (home) files. Easily fixed in due course.
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Just in case, what happens if you expand "~" in the path to PROCMAIL?
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emacs?
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hone)... but that's another story.
> Oh, I have no DE, so I mount the cam explicitly. I don't like things
> auto-mounting. But I'm weird :)
I guess I'm weird as well then... ;-)
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ver utility you like. Why is some
> special program needed for this?
Unfortunately because many cameras do not implement USB file store
access, only MTP (media transfer protocol?). If they provide file store
access, life is simple.
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On Friday, 10 Jun 2022 at 06:33, a wrote:
> nm-applet seems to be part of gnome
I guess it does; I never checked as it runs fine with stumpwm but I
probably have gnome dependencies installed. Sorry for the noise.
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suit your needs.
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or apt and have no
problems at all. I've noticed no delay for that server. Just tried
updating right now and the response was immediate.
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Hello
Given I have a program, I want to make it start/stop as the normal
system service such as postfix.
How can I setup this?
thank you.
The dir /var/log/journal/ on my debian host increases quite quickly.
why this happens? Do you know how to suppress it?
Thanks.
On Tuesday, 8 Mar 2022 at 22:47, Richmond wrote:
> Now that I have it working I fear to change it.
And this is exactly my modus operandum. Once I get a system to a stable
productive working state, I leave it alone (except for security issues).
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works very well for me and comes with nextcloud as well which is
useful.
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use gnus in Emacs) and davmail sends on
requests to the actual server. Instructions, at least for Outlook, on
the website. Not sure about gmail, mind you.
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On Friday, 4 Mar 2022 at 05:56, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> xfce: 774 MIB ram used .. 4 GIB / space used
> mate: 719 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used
> mate*: 722 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used
stumpwm: 86 MB, 1.3 GB ;-)
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y nice laptop,
especially the matt screen (which doesn't have touch, a plus in my
mind).
Just my 2¢.
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out the
non-free firmware as it couldn't find the network.
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On Wednesday, 5 Jan 2022 at 11:26, Charles Curley wrote:
> Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use
> dovecot to set up a local imap server.
dovecot is also quite useful for letting those MUAs that do not support
oauth2 access services which require it.
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this mystery. I remain wondering
why it stopped working last year... but it's good to have some mystery
left. ;-)
eric
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lse/default.pa rather than editing /etc/pulse/default.pa .
Okay, I will give this a try. Thank you. Should I leave the udev
auto-detection in there as well?
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spend some time cleaning these up but none seems relevant to the problem
at first glance. The dpkg audit highlighted nothing and neither did the
firmware diagnostic.
Thanks again,
eric
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upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!##
w months typically) and
so have made a note of this to try then. The link you gave is very
helpful.
Thanks again,
eric
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e rebooting. I did do it this time but just
wondering.
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ulseaudio doc gives
> some hints there:
Thank you for the link. I will read that FAQ in case I can find
something to help. I am not sure combining outputs is what I want but
maybe that's what I need to do. I'll play around.
Thank you,
eric
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ther here or in the configuration tab.
The list of modules itemised via pavucontrol includes alsa so I am not
sure why I cannot see the devices that alsa knows about. It's a mystery
(to me, at least).
thank you,
eric
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DMI 2]
but pulseaudio only shows the HDMI interface.
Any hints on getting pulseaudio to find the Intel device would be
welcome.
Thank you,
eric
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cost could be worth it, of
course, but it's not really. I only posted earlier in the thread as a
data point on what things can slow desktop environments down.
Thank you for your suggestions!
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on this
system are definitely on the slow side. I could upgrade but killing
firefox periodically is an easier (and cheaper 😉) solution for me! 🙂
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Thank you all.
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ual processors for each core.
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use jetaudio (rocketplayer instead) but
I name my playlists with an .m3u extension. Maybe try that?
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web related... ;-)) and then close it immediately. No performance
issues then!
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he GPU driver is helpful as I probably don't have
the optimum graphics card settings (I do very little graphical work:
mostly text in Emacs all day long...). I have an nvidia graphics card
and my experience with nvidia has never been positive, to be fair.
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erwise. Drive and memory all test fine.
Only Firefox causes me problems if I let it run for a long time. My
system is up 24/7.
YMMV, of course, and that's great for you. But don't dismiss other
people's experiences so out of hand please.
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My experience is that Firefox, if you open too many tabs and especially
some of the very javascript heavy ones, gets bogged down quite severely
and requires restarting. It can slow the whole system down in my
experience.
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e wheel and being /too-limiting/, implying that LISP is the only way
to go (and I like LISP).
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a product.
I cannot remember any longer which one supplied this one. Might have
been Tiscali?
And, yes, leaving 99 static addresses free might be a reason.
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On Friday, 22 Oct 2021 at 13:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Typically modems and home routers use the .1 address for themselves.
Interesting. My last 2 routers have had *.254 (!) and *.100 as their
address.
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On Sunday, 10 Oct 2021 at 16:53, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> I was using online fora on the U of Illinois' Plato system in 1977.
Blast from that past that! I remember playing with the air flight
simulator with people connected across the continent.
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etc.
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On Saturday, 2 Oct 2021 at 15:39, Brian wrote:
> BTW, I do not think gv accepts an output piped to it.
Well, it does on my Debian system. YMMV, of course.
I did try the command before posting. ;-)
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On Saturday, 2 Oct 2021 at 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> This appears to produce a Postscript stream.
Yes; I was basing my post on the specified need for "dead wood" output.
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the software: I can still generate a PDF of my thesis now
after more than 30 years since I wrote it. Try that in Word... ;-)
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Thank you for posting this. Interesting article.
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Hello alltogether,
the Debian Wiki seems to be down, and I do not know where and how to
send a bug report to. If I go to any side below
https://wiki.debian.org/, I only get the following message:
Forbidden
You are not allowed to access this!
Greetings
Sven
ons of firefox (and Thunderbird
as this was my test vehicle) but got there eventually. Now have gnus
reading email via davmail although hanging after downloading the
emails. I've posted on the gnus mailing list about this aspect.
Thanks again,
eric
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On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 21:09, deloptes wrote:
> The admin says "F**k off" :D
Yep, that's pretty much what's happened (so far... I'm pushing).
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>> are not working because the sticky bits for many files /usr/bin/* were lost.
>> For example, I can't send email with exim because of this error:
>>
>> Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim4//input//1lj87g-0002tS-5J-D:
>> Permission denied
>
> I'm guessing you actually mean setuid/setgid
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