Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Daniel Harris [Mon, Jan 13 2025, 02:26:06PM]: >Hello >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 and why For the start, please open a tab with "about:processes" (or "about:performa

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-18 Thread Richmond
I don't think anyone mentioned the command line option --new-instance firefox --new-instance Probably you should use it with --ProfileManager firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager Alternatively you can enter about:profiles in the location bar and start a new one from there. If firefox is slo

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-16 Thread John Hasler
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. writes: > I run [both uBlock-origin and NoScript], here. Noscript being the > most recently added. It does make a nontrivial difference... Likewise. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-16 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 15 January 2025 09:49:15 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 14/01/2025 17:11, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > > btw, you need to install noscripts from the extensions panel AND UBlock > > origin or Adblock plus at least if you want to get rid of all ads and > > javascripts code that have

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 14/01/2025 17:11, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > > btw, you need to install noscripts from the extensions panel AND UBlock > > origin or Adblock plus at least if you want to get rid of all ads and > > javascripts code that have nothing to with the actual content of the

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/01/2025 17:11, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: btw, you need to install noscripts from the extensions panel AND UBlock origin or Adblock plus at least if you want to get rid of all ads and javascripts code that have nothing to with the actual content of the sites you browse (and are here

Browsers on remote DISPLAY (was: Re: What is going on with firefox)

2025-01-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/01/2025 00:38, Tim Woodall wrote: I don't think you understand my setup. Remote XDMCP thin client. I have not checked current state of affairs. I believed that it was working greet 20 years ago before hardware graphics acceleration and client-side font rendering. That is why I mentioned

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: On 14/01/2025 16:32, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote: I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/01/2025 16:32, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 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. 

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Stefan writes: > Yes. But it's often(usually?) bugs in the code run within the systems > rather than bugs in the systems themselves. In browsers, the code run > "within the system" is in large part the Javascript code downloaded > from random sites. Install an unloader extension such as New Tab

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> If that fails, it's time to stop and restart FF. I usually clean the >>> sqlite DBs by going to my FF profile directory and running this (buried >>> in a larger cleanup script): >> A browser, like Windows or any other non-operating system, has to be >> rebooted from time to time. >> The ritual

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 01:34:41PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > On 14/01/2025 11:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > The rituals of rebirth and that. > > Am I the only one to see this as a bug ? I tend to see browsers (as Windows) as big feasts of bugs. Cheers -- t signature.

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 14/01/2025 11:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 04:40:38AM -0500, Karl Vogel wrote: [...] If that fails, it's time to stop and restart FF. I usually clean the sqlite DBs by going to my FF profile directory and running this (buried in a larger cleanup script): A

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 11:03:13 +0100, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: > 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 shouldn't > struggle having a few video tabs open. YouTube's UI is often actively > lagging, with hov

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 04:40:38 -0500, Karl Vogel wrote: > for file in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.sqlite' -print); do Just be aware that this is *not* safe in general. It will fail if any of the pathnames contain whitespace. It may work fine on your Firefox directory, but other applicati

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 04:40:38AM -0500, Karl Vogel wrote: [...] > If that fails, it's time to stop and restart FF. I usually clean the > sqlite DBs by going to my FF profile directory and running this (buried > in a larger cleanup script): A browser, like Windows or any other non-operating sy

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
hello :) Le 13/01/2025 à 16:18, Daniel Harris a écrit : 12 Gen i9 processor 16 core 24 threads 64GB ram onboard intel Alderlake GT1 gpu should be sufficient to run firefox pretty well with not many tabs running and light cpu usage and lots of free mem. sure :) btw, you need to install noscr

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: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Karl Vogel
I run Firefox for weeks at a time with about 40 tabs open, and I noticed it slowing down as it chewed up more swap. I was able to "fix" this by using cron to disable and enable swap hourly to force everything back into memory. If that fails, it's time to stop and restart FF. I usually clean the

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 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 and why is it not possible to h

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 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 and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. It's n

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Daniel Harris
So are we saying that chromium is not allowing youtube to do that and that is why it is more responsive On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 21:34:39 +, Daniel Harris wrote: > > So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 07:21, Greg Woo ledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 21:34:39 +, Daniel Harris wrote: So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos playing, and without switching to any other t

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 21:34:39 +, Daniel Harris wrote: > So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am > watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos > playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process Manager > tab.

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Daniel Harris
only ublock origin and one youtube page no video playing consumes 1GB ram that seems a lot On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/1/25 05:34, Daniel Harris wrote: > > So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I > > am watching the process Manager,

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello 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 and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. It's not possible with chromium either.

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 05:34, Daniel Harris wrote: So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process Manager tab.  The cpu keeps spiking from

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Daniel Harris
So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process Manager tab. The cpu keeps spiking from .25% to over 100% on different youtube pro

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:49:49 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > I generally work on being able to open and keep open, a Firefox > window, for each GB of RAM, which seems to work most of the time, with > one or more Windows, having multiple youtube tabs open. > > at present, on a system with 128GB RAM

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 01:35, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM From: "Bret Busby" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What is going on with firefox On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello I am a very long time happy firefox user using deb

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread pocket
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM > From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What is going on with firefox > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:35:41PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:35:41PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: [...] > I don't have any rams, but I do have some ewes. Poking fun at people because of some typo is not only lame, but also infantile. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread pocket
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM > From: "Bret Busby" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What is going on with firefox > > On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am a very long time happy firefox us

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Daniel Harris
Thanks Bret. I didnt know about Process Manager. Its probably over my head but its helpful to know its there when things slow down. with dxtrade it slows down usually within hours youtube is a bit more unpredictable. I tend not to ever shutdown my computer only suspend every night. I have jus

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 00:14, Daniel Harris wrote:   Now its possible something to do with ublockorigin but the two sites that show a slowdown are youtube and another piece of software called dxtrade (I think i disabled ublock on dxtrade).  Everything seems to start off fine but the longer the windows a

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/13/25 9:55 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): 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 Can you give a specific example o

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 00:33, Bret Busby wrote: On 14/1/25 00:19, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 23:55, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): Come on firefox devs Probably not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if t

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 00:19, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 23:55, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): Come on firefox devs Probably not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if there are, a post to an unrelated mail

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/1/25 23:55, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): Come on firefox devs Probably not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if there are, a post to an unrelated mailing list is not the way to file bug r

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Daniel Harris
Sorry Bret now sent to the list 2 windows open that dont use the same profile: so when running in private mode I am not running as the same user logged on to the other instance(window). so I am not logged into youtube when surfing in private mode but in normal mode (eg the other window) I am signe

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): > 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 Can you give a specific example of a situation when the browser is slow? Whic

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Daniel Harris
12 Gen i9 processor 16 core 24 threads 64GB ram onboard intel Alderlake GT1 gpu should be sufficient to run firefox pretty well with not many tabs running and light cpu usage and lots of free mem. Thanks Dan On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris w

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/1/25 23:03, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello 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 and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. So,

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel Harris wrote: > Hello > > 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 and why is > it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. > > I have to say that reluctantly I have started using

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello 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 and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. So, how many RAMs do you have, and, what

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:26:06PM +, Daniel Harris wrote: > Hello > > 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 and why is > it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. > > I have to

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/6/24 02:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 11:49:37PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 11:26:38 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] It is part of Microsoft's promise that anyone can be sysadmin [...] Isn't that what modern networking is striving t

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-05 Thread tomas
On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 11:49:37PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 11:26:38 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > It is part of Microsoft's promise that anyone can be sysadmin [...] > Isn't that what modern networking is striving to attain? Whoever "modern networking" i

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-05 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 11:26:38 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:56:42PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > What is the purpose of mDNS ?  > > > >  It seems to be for multicast?   > > It is not /for/ multicast IP, it /uses/ multicast for name resolution. > In a nutshell

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On 03/08/2024 21:08, Lee wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM George at Clug wrote: Hi, What is the purpose of mDNS ? "zero-configuration networking" seems to be the search term eg -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) It seems to be for multicast? no, it _uses_ multicast.

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread Lee
On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM George at Clug wrote: > > Hi, > > What is the purpose of mDNS ? "zero-configuration networking" seems to be the search term eg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) > It seems to be for multicast? no, it _uses_ multicast. when did "utilize" replace

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/8/24 18:35, George at Clug wrote: Thanks for your comments, Tomas and Jeremy. George On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 19:43 jeremy ardley wrote: On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread George at Clug
Thanks for your comments, Tomas and Jeremy. George On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 19:43 jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. > > In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local netw

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local network asking "who is called Fritz here?", and Fritz answers with its IP. So sys-non- admins don't have to set up a name ser

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread tomas
On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:56:42PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > Hi, > > > What is the purpose of mDNS ?  > > >  It seems to be for multicast?   It is not /for/ multicast IP, it /uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local network asking "who

Re: what is a tasklet

2023-12-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On 06/12/2023 12:32, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: DI: DI: tasklet schedule cost 12ms. this interesting message started showing up in syslog a week or so ago i've never noticed them before any ideas whet this is According to https://lwn.net/Articles/830964/, they were a way to defer the ex

Re: what is NEW/experimental in debian tracker?

2022-12-27 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 01:15:41PM +, jindam.v...@disroot.org wrote: > libreoffice tracker [1] contains NEW/experimental: 1:7.5.0~rc1-1 > what is NEW/experimental in debian tracker? > is it possible to install from NEW/experimental? If you are very lucky, yes, but most of the time: no. And it

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 16 May 2022, Stella Ashburne wrote: Hi guys I connect to the internet using one of the following methods: It's really hard to understand what you're wanting to do. option 1. Use a mapping You have "interfaces" like wlo1-doozy wlo1-home wlo1-cafe And a script whose job is to retur

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread David Wright
On Mon 16 May 2022 at 09:26:22 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2022 22:42:26 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > > Alternatively, you could move the ones you want activated into > > /etc/network/interfaces.d/, and move the ones that you don't > > somewhere else, like /etc/network/unused-

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread Stella Ashburne
Mon cher > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 at 11:26 PM > From: "Charles Curley" > To: "Debian Users" > Subject: Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in > /etc/network/interfaces.d ? > > > Or put them all in /etc/network/unused-interfaces/, and ma

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread David Wright
On Mon 16 May 2022 at 13:03:27 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 at 11:42 AM > > From: "David Wright" > > > > You now have six files: lan, usb0, wlo1-nw22, wlo1-nw15, wlo1-nw51, > > wlo1-nw70, > > which you can handle in a similar manner to however you presently > > s

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 15 May 2022 22:42:26 -0500 David Wright wrote: > Alternatively, you could move the ones you want activated into > /etc/network/interfaces.d/, and move the ones that you don't > somewhere else, like /etc/network/unused-interfaces/. Or put them all in /etc/network/unused-interfaces/, and m

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread Stella Ashburne
You're right, mon cher. My typos have indeed led to confusion and they're inexcusable. Mea culpa > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 at 7:15 PM > From: "Greg Wooledge" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What is the neat way of organizing files

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 01:03:27PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > So I moved wlo1-nw15, wlo1-nw51 and wlo1-nw70 to > /etc/network/unused-interfaces/ leaving only wl01-nw22 in > /etc/network/interfaces.d > > However, when I typed the following in a termminal > > sudo ifdown wlo1-nw22 > ifdown:

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread Stella Ashburne
Mon cher It's been quite a while since I heard from you. I hope everything's well with you and your family! > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 at 11:42 AM > From: "David Wright" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What is the neat way of organizing files

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread Stella Ashburne
Mon cher Thanks for your reply. > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 at 9:33 AM > From: "Charles Curley" > To: "Debian Users" > Subject: Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in > /etc/network/interfaces.d ? > > Network Manager. > No thank you. I wo

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-15 Thread David Wright
On Mon 16 May 2022 at 01:10:20 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote: > 2. In the file called wlo1, I have four parts that correspond to the four > different wireless networks. is there a neater way of doing it? Yes. Put each wlo1 configuration into a separate file called either: wlo1-nw1, wlo1-nw2,

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 May 2022 01:10:20 +0200 Stella Ashburne wrote: > I. Depending on how I connect to the internet, I create a file each > called lan, usb0 and wlo1 and place them in > /etc/network/interfaces.d. Is there a neater way of doing it? Network Manager. If you insist on writing your own script

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-04-30 Thread Dekks Herton
z3fold a choice for zsap compressor module, normally if your seeing a problem you need to add z3fold to initramfs modules file and rebuild. see https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/setting-up-zswap-in-debian-11-gnu-linux/

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Mar 2022, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > ~$ sudo find /lib/modules/ -iname "*z3fold*" > /lib/modules/4.19.0-17-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > /lib/modules/4.19.0-14-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > > > Then why doesn't it load up? update-initramfs -u

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:21:57PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] > In some sense, if you're using synaptic and a desktop environment you've > already lost a minimal install. A very good point, BTW. My daily driver has no synaptic, for example, and yet it is a far cry from a minimal insta

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-04-16 at 16:21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be >> used by *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. > > The goal of the installer - debian-installer - i

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 02:24:32PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/16/2022 09:21 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be used by > > > *ALL* people to use for *ANY* p

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Apr 2022 at 14:31:49 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be used by > > *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. > > Including yours… > > [problems with Debi

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Apr 2022 at 08:50:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be used by > *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. This is your gloss. The goal of d-i is to install Debian. That is its only goal. > I find the resulting system

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/16/2022 09:21 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be used by *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. I find the resulting system: 1. consumes more disk space t

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be used by > *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. Including yours… [problems with Debian installer] > I plan to get around these problems by creating

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

2022-04-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be used by > *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. > > I find the resulting system: > 1. consumes more disk space than necessary. > 2. consumes excessive ba

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-03-03 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 07:25:01 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: (...) > > /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: > > z3fold: not found > > Well, as your file says, this is supposed to be a kernel module. On my > system, I have this: > > unicorn:~$ locate z3fold > /lib/m

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-03-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 10:21:45AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I was following this guide: > https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/speed-mint.html#ID1.2 > > So I added: > > # cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf > # List of modules that you want to include in your initramfs. > # Th

Re: What is libc5-i686 | lib32gcc1 (for proliant)

2021-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 26 oct 21, 20:11:25, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, and > doesn't install because of it. It got damaged somehow during the last > dist-upgrade. I think I'd better re-install it. Do you have a typo in your Subjec

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-25 Thread sp...@caiway.net
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:53:21 +0100 "sp...@caiway.net" wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:59:06 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:23:23AM +0100, sp...@caiway.net wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: > > > > > > sort01ei

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-25 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Marc Auslander wrote: On 11/24/2021 10:40 PM, sp...@caiway.net wrote: Hello, My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: sort01ei1t sort01Eq7u sort01sLAs ... sortzZZtvv the files are approx. 13 Gb each. In 24 hours > 6000 are written. My big partition is fil

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-25 Thread Marc Auslander
On 11/24/2021 10:40 PM, sp...@caiway.net wrote: Hello, My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: sort01ei1t sort01Eq7u sort01sLAs ... sortzZZtvv the files are approx. 13 Gb each. In 24 hours > 6000 are written. My big partition is filled by it until the system freezes. The file

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-25 Thread sp...@caiway.net
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 04:23:23 +0100 "sp...@caiway.net" wrote: > Hello, > > My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: > > sort01ei1t > sort01Eq7u > sort01sLAs > ... > sortzZZtvv > > > the files are approx. 13 Gb each. > In 24 hours > 6000 are written. > they are approx. 13 Mb eac

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-25 Thread sp...@caiway.net
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:59:06 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:23:23AM +0100, sp...@caiway.net wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: > > > > sort01ei1t > > sort01Eq7u > > sort01sLAs > > ... > > sortzZZtvv > > > > > > the files a

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/24/21, sp...@caiway.net wrote: > Hello, > > My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: > > sort01ei1t > sort01Eq7u > sort01sLAs > ... > sortzZZtvv > > > the files are approx. 13 Gb each. > In 24 hours > 6000 are written. > > My big partition is filled by it until the system freez

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:23:23AM +0100, sp...@caiway.net wrote: > Hello, > > My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: > > sort01ei1t > sort01Eq7u > sort01sLAs > ... > sortzZZtvv > > > the files are approx. 13 Gb each. > In 24 hours > 6000 are written. > How can I find out which

Re: what is the best package to design the layout of the house

2021-11-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/11/21 9:09 pm, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 11/3/21, deloptes wrote: Reco wrote: I don't know about garden design, but I used sweethome3d for an apartment design back in the day. Written in Java, but works reasonably fast. I can second Sweethome3D for interior. It helped us save a lot o

Re: what is the best package to design the layout of the house

2021-11-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/3/21, deloptes wrote: > Reco wrote: > >> I don't know about garden design, but I used sweethome3d for an >> apartment design back in the day. >> >> Written in Java, but works reasonably fast. > > I can second Sweethome3D for interior. It helped us save a lot of time > planing furniture layou

Re: what is the best package to design the layout of the house

2021-11-03 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > I don't know about garden design, but I used sweethome3d for an > apartment design back in the day. > > Written in Java, but works reasonably fast. I can second Sweethome3D for interior. It helped us save a lot of time planing furniture layout BR -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 472

Re: What is libc5-i686 | lib32gcc1 (proliant package dependencies)

2021-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-10-27 at 06:57, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, > and doesn't install because of it. It got damaged somehow during the > last dist-upgrade. I think I'd better re-install it. > > I have both libc6:i386 and lib32

Re: what is the best package to design the layout of the house

2021-10-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:34:08AM +0200, lina wrote: > What is the best/user-friendly package that can be used to design a simple > house, if it comes with garden design it would be a bonus. I don't know about garden design, but I used sweethome3d for an apartment design back in the

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

2021-05-07 Thread Weaver
On 08-05-2021 11:31, Richard Hector wrote: > On 6/05/21 7:59 am, Weaver wrote: > >> >> https://jami.net/ > > I get puzzled by sites like that that don't seem to say _what_it_is_ ... > > Luckily I can get that info from the debian package info :-) It's a rebranding of the old `Ring' package. Che

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

2021-05-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 6/05/21 7:59 am, Weaver wrote: https://jami.net/ I get puzzled by sites like that that don't seem to say _what_it_is_ ... Luckily I can get that info from the debian package info :-) Richard

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

2021-05-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
I think Linphone used to have a CLI interface, so you might want to look into it. I haven't used it in a long time, so I don't know what is its current status. I basically gave up on SIP (partly because of very spotty support for encrypted communications and for async messages like SMS) and recom

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

2021-05-05 Thread Richmond
Emanuel Berg writes: > Dan Ritter wrote: > >> They all speak the SIP protocol > > OK, what client should I get then? I use Zoiper on android. They seem to have a debian package available but I haven't tried it. https://www.zoiper.com/en/voip-softphone/download/current

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

2021-05-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Emanuel Berg wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > If you want more advice, you'll need to tell us what you > > want to do and what your constraints are. > > communicate my style pretty fast I guess. I'm in Emacs all the > time, including now with Gnus, in a Linux VT, other than that > I use tmux in

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

2021-05-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Emanuel Berg wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > They all speak the SIP protocol > > OK, what client should I get then? You could read about those three, and try out any or all of them. If you want more advice, you'll need to tell us what you want to do and what your constraints are. -dsr-

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

2021-05-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Emanuel Berg wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > I'm not sure why you want each VM to have a softphone. > > > > Debian packages linphone, empathy and twinkle > > Can you then call other people with those or corresponding > software or can you call an actual smartphone using some app > or something?

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