Re: [arch-general] The differences among bootx64.efi, loader.efi and grubx64.efi.

2019-11-19 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 8:31 AM Hongyi Zhao via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Hongyi Zhao 于2019年11月15日周五 下午9:13写道: > > > > Ralph Corderoy 于2019年11月15日周五 下午8:57写道: > > > > > > > > Hi Hongyi, > > > > > > > I noticed that for many distro's install iso, there are some efi >

Re: [arch-general] Dual boot Arch with Windows 10

2019-05-27 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> I will go through the links guys, thanks a lot.. > > And Yi Zheng, me neither like UEFI, but what to do, nowadays all laptops > comes as UEFI.. and to change it to MBR i have to wipe the entire drive :( > It's actually much easier to dual boot with UEFI once you become familiar with it. If your

Re: [arch-general] Automatic login

2017-07-18 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
If you're going to use automatic login, why not cut out the middle man and ditch the display manager entirely? Relevant wiki articles/sections: Getty#Automatic_login_to_virtual_console Xinit#Autostart_X_at_login KDE#Manual On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general <

Re: [arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

2017-03-07 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > So what? Is linux now about restricting user choice? > Arch is a pragmatic distribution, both for the users and developers. Upstream decided to make pulseaudio a hard dependency specifically to reduce maintenance costs on their end. Arch devs really aren't in the business of adopting such

Re: [arch-general] Inquiry about research paper

2017-02-21 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > Not about systemd, but about your request. This is the wrong list for > such a request and apart from this, it's the wrong time to ask those > questions. You are years too late with those questions. > I agree. This would be better suited for the Arch forums. We have a section for general

Re: [arch-general] Intel graphics issue

2017-02-21 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > How can I get rid of this annoying flashing line. > > This is the currently used xorg.conf: > Does the problem persist if you remove your X config so it just runs the defaults? In my experience Intel generally requires little to no configuration to work well with X.

Re: [arch-general] user namespaces

2017-02-01 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > All those distros, everyone except arch has decided at some point to no > longer restrict the use of unprivileged user namespaces. > In no way whatsoever does Arch restrict the use of unprivileged user namespaces. Rebuilding your kernel with them enabled is a trivial task for any user

Re: [arch-general] ofono install

2017-02-01 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > I get an error about a conflict between .SRCINFO and PKGBUILD - how can I > resolve this problem? > I'm not getting that error, have you tried cloning a fresh copy from AUR? Regardless, you don't need to care about .SRCINFO unless you're the maintainer. Just delete it. Max

Re: [arch-general] arch-security: CVE and ASA wiki logging

2017-01-17 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > CVE / ASA logging or however you call it is now officially hosted on > https://security.archlinux.org > > The wiki is dead, long live the new awesome tracker :) > I will archive the old wiki articles in about a week. Get your arguments in now if you want them to stick around.

Re: [arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs

2016-12-05 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > Allan has already declared that he will not change the default > makepkg.conf, on the grounds that #2 is the most likely scenario for > people getting malicious packages. > He also wants everyone to know that updpkgsums and makepkg are perfectly > okay with maintainers changing the defaults,

Re: [arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs

2016-12-04 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > So what do you guys think if we make our implicit standards available > somewhere on the wiki. This would make it more transparent on how we > build stuff, how TUs should package and give a guideline for AUR > maintainers, as they might not know about some details like this. > The best way to

Re: [arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs

2016-12-03 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > You mean the source files that you downloaded and then hashed... > Yes. If the source files are being modified via a MITM attack (which is trivial if the host uses HTTP) the checksum is still useful.

Re: [arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs

2016-12-03 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > I agree that we should use a strong hash by default where it makes > sense. But in the absense ob effective validation of upstream packages, > this is meaningless. > It would at least indicate that the source file has been tampered with in some way. Even though there would be no way to know

Re: [arch-general] Updates blocked by ttf-dejavu

2016-11-01 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> Morning. Try this, sudo pacman -Syu --force. Please do not run that command unless the Arch site specifically recommends it. Forcing a full system upgrade is extremely dangerous. The safe solution is to force only ttf-dejavu.

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation

2016-09-28 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> > Do you Have any pointer to good opensource hardware ? Not exactly open-source/FSF-endorsed but https://system76.com/ sells laptops with Ubuntu-preinstalled so those are also guaranteed to run Arch.

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

2016-09-22 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:12 AM, mike lojkovic via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I'm in favor of the merge as well. For beginners there are plenty of > Youtube videos that cover common desktop setups. That should be more than > enough for users who are first learning how to