Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 07 iun 20, 19:23:24, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind > how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. > > The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. > > I just installed Picard, an

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 07 iun 20, 21:21:07, Marco Möller wrote: > > Yes, design options exist. However, I never tried out if the user root could > be blocked by the graphical session manager only, in the case of KDE usually > sddm is in use. But I know that the login of user root can be blocked in > general: when

Regarding adding my link

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Re: problems compiling linux-source-4.19

2020-06-07 Thread John Covici
Thanks a lot! That gave me a lead to a typo and that has fixed the problem. On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:27:56 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 09:23:17PM -0400, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I am having problems compiling the current linux-source4.19. I > > am using the sam

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 19:30:19 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > > > > Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the > > > > source, build yoursel

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 19:30:19 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > > > Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the > > > source, build yourself or download pre-built thingie

Re: problems compiling linux-source-4.19

2020-06-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 09:23:17PM -0400, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am having problems compiling the current linux-source4.19. I > am using the same config file -- just copied to .config, except that I > had to get rid of the gpg key in the cryptographic api section. I get > the following error

problems compiling linux-source-4.19

2020-06-07 Thread John Covici
Hi. I am having problems compiling the current linux-source4.19. I am using the same config file -- just copied to .config, except that I had to get rid of the gpg key in the cryptographic api section. I get the following error when trying to compile: CC arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.o arch/

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Geoff Reidy
Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. I just installed Picard, and it does not show up in Sound and Vid

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/7/20 12:14 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4  and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze with the following message: The current i

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 11:17:39PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 22:24:56 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 09:07:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Nicolas George states the obvious. All modern VoIP involves immense > > > resources to deliv

Re: Issue with Debian Mate

2020-06-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Analis Dannen wrote: > I recently installed Debian Mate on my computer. I have a question. I > installed the snap store onto my system Tell us how you did that, please? -dsr-

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 07 Jun, 2020 at 20:19:48 +0200, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: >On 6/7/20 7:52 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: [...] > What window manager/desktop suite are you using? > >GNOME Metacity That's unusual these days. Are you getting your application menu from gnome-panel?

Issue with Debian Mate

2020-06-07 Thread Analis Dannen
Greetings I recently installed Debian Mate on my computer. I have a question. I installed the snap store onto my system, only to find that it does not appear in the list of applications. I even tried running it in the command line with no success. If it is somehow disabled, how do I need to enable

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 22:24:56 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 09:07:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > Nicolas George states the obvious. All modern VoIP involves immense > > resources to deliver to users. > > A bit handwawy at that point: do you mean it's a comp

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > > suppose. But really, it's a basic user experience need, not like trying > to set up a server or virtual machine kind of project. :) Those are also user experience needs. The essence of Linux is that at any time, an ordinary user should be able to put on their sysadmin

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > very different. I want to imagine a world of using a stable and secure > computer to achieve much more. Or, perhaps my frustration is influenced > by chastisement from a friend recently, a programmer, who said; life's > short, time is precious, why spend time getting thin

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 7 juin 2020 à 19:23 de notoneofmyse...@gmx.de: > I just installed Picard, and it does not show up in Sound and Video, > where logic would suggest it be. > >From my side, Picard appears under Multimedia>MusicBrainz Picard. Here is the related desktop file (org.musicbrainz.Picard.desktop): [De

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-06-07 at 16:14, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 03:56:17PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Yeah, but that's not building Jitsi; that's installing a prebuilt >> Jitsi, as shipped in those packages. >> >> Presumably, as those packages are for download from the authors' >

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Nicolas George
Russell L. Harris (12020-06-07): > So? It is an open-source alternative to Zoom, and it works. Of > course, if you are worried that the builders put in something > malicious or dangerous which is not in the open source repository, > then you can turn to Zoom, or build your own, or do without... >

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 03:56:17PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: Yeah, but that's not building Jitsi; that's installing a prebuilt Jitsi, as shipped in those packages. Presumably, as those packages are for download from the authors' Website, the authors are the ones who built them. Thus, this doesn

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 7 juin 2020 à 22:03 de notoneofmyse...@gmx.de: > Thanks for your help. Please see above. To be sure, I'm running as > 'root.' Should I log into 'regular' user and do these again? > Please just run the following commands as a simple user (no need to cd to anything): * cat /usr/share/applicati

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 10:22 PM, Marco Möller wrote: I am surprised about Ubuntu in your experience not being as stable and secure as Debian. While Debian is a philosophy and developing an extremely good OS, Ubuntu builds on top of it. Substituting philosophy by commercial interests and that's when I left,

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 09:07:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > Nicolas George states the obvious. All modern VoIP involves immense > resources to deliver to users. A bit handwawy at that point: do you mean it's a complex programming task or it needs network resources (bandwidth, low latency)? >

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 9:33 PM, Joe wrote: Wouldn't that be something like Android? Where the user no longer owns his computer, and therefore cannot break it, where there is one and only one minimally-customisable user interface, where only software approved by the OS vendor is available where the softwa

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Marco Möller
On 07.06.20 19:54, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: (...) And I will add, it was never the ambition of Debian to replace the User experience with Windows or OSX, unlike Ubuntu and many others. I've stuck with Debian for what I cannot find in Ubuntu; stability and security. But user experience is well

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 21:19:08 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:57:54PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > > > No. But I haven't tried, so... > > > > Well, me neither. But if I have not tried personally, I know people who > > have tried a

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 9:24 PM, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: OK, just to be sure, can you please copy/paste in 2 text files the content of: * /usr/share/applications/org.musicbrainz.Picard.desktop * /usr/share/metainfo/org.musicbrainz.Picard.appdata.xml xscreensaver-properties.desktop yelp.desktop zulucrypt-gui.d

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-06-07 at 15:30, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > >> to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): >> >>> Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get >>> the source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. >> >> Do

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. Do you have evidence of somebody other than the authors themselves having m

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-06-07 at 15:34, Nicolas George wrote: > Darac Marjal (12020-06-07): > >> That's a rather ironic thing to say on a Debian mailing list :) > > To the best of my knowledge, Debian is not the author of most > packages, and yet build them from source themselves: that proves the > packages are

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Nicolas George
Darac Marjal (12020-06-07): > That's a rather ironic thing to say on a Debian mailing list :) To the best of my knowledge, Debian is not the author of most packages, and yet build them from source themselves: that proves the packages are actually Libre Software. Again to the best of my knowledge,

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Joe
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 19:54:07 +0200 Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > I've stuck with Debian > for what I cannot find in Ubuntu; stability and security. But user > experience is well below compared to other distros. It's unfortunate, > then it seems, that Linux seems destined for the geek world. This is >

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On 07/06/2020 20:21, Nicolas George wrote: > Seeds Notoneofmy (12020-06-07): >> Having said all that, the instructions to get BBB going seems solid. >> Perhaps someone here with a bit of knowhow will do this and then put a >> guide here? That would be very, very nice: >> >> Here's my contribution:

Re: Issue with disabling Intel turbo boost via systemd

2020-06-07 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 7 juin 2020 à 10:21 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > No, you're supposed to add this line: > > devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo = 1 > > Leading "/sys" is always omitted in sysfsutils. > > >> Or maybe via a specific file in /etc/sysfs.d/ instead (I presume this >> directory is setup so

Re: On the road to a minimalist Debian

2020-06-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 13:30:20 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > CARPE LECTOR: > I said "a minimalist Debian", NOT "the minimalist Debian" ;} Got it. We are on the samelength. > Circumstances have come together allowing me to do multiple installs. > As I have restricted bandwidth and DVD set are a

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread l0f4r0
OK, just to be sure, can you please copy/paste in 2 text files the content of: * /usr/share/applications/org.musicbrainz.Picard.desktop * /usr/share/metainfo/org.musicbrainz.Picard.appdata.xml + give us the output for: desktop-file-validate /usr/share/applications/org.musicbrainz.Picard.desktop B

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Nicolas George
Seeds Notoneofmy (12020-06-07): > Having said all that, the instructions to get BBB going seems solid. > Perhaps someone here with a bit of knowhow will do this and then put a > guide here? That would be very, very nice: > > Here's my contribution: > > https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.h

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-07 Thread Marco Möller
On 07.06.20 02:42, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 7/6/20 8:30 am, Marco Möller wrote: I would easily agree with you concerning not to log into a graphical session as the user root. But Dolphin is also not running with sudo prepended. And here I was thinking that the dolphin issue ran here fo

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:57:54PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > > No. But I haven't tried, so... > > Well, me neither. But if I have not tried personally, I know people who > have tried and failed. > > If only the authors can build a software, it cannot be cons

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/7/20 11:53 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 20:37:55 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. Do you have evidence of somebody other than

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 8:48 PM, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: What is your output of: dpkg -L picard Are you sure you want it, it's pretty long. I've made a text document of it. It's attached, all 8 pages of it. (.odt) Thanks for asking and helping. picard_issues.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendoc

Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4 and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze with the following message: The current input timing is not supported by the monito

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 8:57 PM, Nicolas George wrote: We have to acknowledge: there are no Libre Software solutions for videoconferencing. Having said all that, the instructions to get BBB going seems solid. Perhaps someone here with a bit of knowhow will do this and then put a guide here? That would be v

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 8:57 PM, Nicolas George wrote: We have to acknowledge: there are no Libre Software solutions for videoconferencing. Well, that's about wrap this thread up. Thanks. And I'm glad I did not proceed with the BBB promise. They've been around since 2007, but we cannot say of them, an alte

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 8:37 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Do you have evidence of somebody other than the authors themselves having managed to build it? This made me laugh, as I know where it's coming from; over promise, under deliver. Of course, it works; in theory. But in practice, well, that could take /you

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > No. But I haven't tried, so... Well, me neither. But if I have not tried personally, I know people who have tried and failed. If only the authors can build a software, it cannot be considered Libre Software, since part of the source code is missing. Open Source a

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > > Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the > > source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. > > Do you have evidence of somebody other than the authors themselve

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 20:37:55 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > > Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the > > source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. > > Do you have evidence of somebody other than the authors themselves >

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, June 07, 2020 02:23:04 PM Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > I just looked into this, having had an issue with Zoom recently. And it > seems it allows for installing the server locally? Am I understanding > this right, that one can have their own BBB server and provide access to > others to conne

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread l0f4r0
What is your output of: dpkg -L picard

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-07 Thread leonard morin
Thanks again for all your help. Once again, at this point, I don't remember how I did it, but I cleared the sources list and put in the Debian repository to download Gnome. It's taking me a lot of effort to wield the code since I'm new at this, and I don't want to cause irreparable damage. Be well!

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): > Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the > source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. Do you have evidence of somebody other than the authors themselves having managed to build it? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:23:04PM +0200, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > On 6/5/20 8:57 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > >>Look into Big Blue Button and see if you can get your family to try > >>that instead. > > > >bigbluebutton is interesting. Thanks for the thought. > > > >Many family members use Zoom, a

On the road to a minimalist Debian

2020-06-07 Thread Richard Owlett
CARPE LECTOR: I said "a minimalist Debian", NOT "the minimalist Debian" ;} Circumstances have come together allowing me to do multiple installs. As I have restricted bandwidth and DVD set are available on flash devices, I recently purchased Debian 10.0 for AMD64. I've done three installs today

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
There's also barnard for the linux command line users sometimes needs compiling using go. On Sun, 7 Jun 2020, Admin4 wrote: > Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 14:00:19 > From: Admin4 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Zoom- best practice? > Resent-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 18:00:35 + (UTC)

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/5/20 8:57 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: Look into Big Blue Button and see if you can get your family to try that instead. bigbluebutton is interesting. Thanks for the thought. Many family members use Zoom, and like me, are past seven decades. Several of the younger set use Zoom also. I think I

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 7:52 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 6/7/20 10:23 AM, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. I j

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/7/20 10:23 AM, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. I just installed Picard, and it does not sh

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/5/20 7:09 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: I did not test with Chromium or Firefox or anything else. Just tried it two days ago on Firefox. It was a disaster. No sound. And screensharing did not work, at all.

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Admin4
btw. if audio + chat WOULD be sufficient (it can handle a lot of participants) try mumble! :) https://sourceforge.net/projects/mumble/ the Android App is called "plumble" https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.morlunk.mumbleclient/ * Client + Server is 100% Open Source * mumble server is easy

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 7:37 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/07/2020 12:23 PM, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century.

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 7:37 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/07/2020 12:23 PM, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century.

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/7/20 7:37 PM, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: From my side, Picard appears under Multimedia>MusicBrainz Picard. Here is the related desktop file (org.musicbrainz.Picard.desktop): Thanks a lot. But I do not have 'Multimedia,' instead Applications > Sound & Video Thanks.

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/07/2020 12:23 PM, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. I just installed Picard, and it does not

why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. I just installed Picard, and it does not show up in Sound and Video, where logic would sug

Re: Finding application's description

2020-06-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/07/2020 07:07 AM, David wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 00:37, Richard Owlett wrote: I've just installed Buster and am selecting which apps on my Stretch machine I wish to continue to use. For some reason I had installed Gdebi. I can't find a good description on which base a decision.

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/6/20 10:00 PM, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 6/6/20 3:32 am, john doe wrote: On 6/5/2020 6:28 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about security, duh! Looking f

Encrypted image Debian system backup with Clonezilla in a LUKS/LVM2 environment

2020-06-07 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, I run Debian 10 (UEFI with Secure Boot) on multiple LVM2 partitions inside LUKS as follows: NAME                                              FSTYPE               LABEL              MOUNTPOINT   SIZE nvme0n1                                                                                   

Re: Firefox over JACK in Debian Testing

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 07 iun 20, 00:25:30, riveravaldez wrote: > > By other side, I've seen in Arch a different approach: using a JACK > plugin for ALSA and ad hoc configuration file to make kind of a > "bridge" that sends I/O audio through JACK. It works fine.[4] > Is it possible to do something similar in Debi

Re: Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 iun 20, 14:06:42, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I usually have three different distros installed.  I was wondering if I > could have a separate partition (possibly in an extended partition) > containing /boot and /var/modules that would be mounted in each of the > distros.  This would eliminate h

Re: Finding application's description

2020-06-07 Thread David
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 00:37, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've just installed Buster and am selecting which apps on my Stretch > machine I wish to continue to use. > For some reason I had installed Gdebi. > I can't find a good description on which base a decision. $ apt show gdebi [...] Description:

Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro

2020-06-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > 'systemd-nspawn'. You can use 'debootstrap' to create the Debian chroot, > > > it was explicitly created to run also on other distributions (it's > > > written in shell). > > > > Thanks you, I'll definitely look into that. It that it? > > https://wiki.archlinux

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
The Wanderer wrote: > but you might find some benefit from deborphan, > in the package of the same name. It basically reports the names of > installed packages which are not depended on by anything else. Thank you for the good advice! The first run of "deborphan -a" helped me recall a lot of "fo

Re: Firefox over JACK in Debian Testing

2020-06-07 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 12:25:30AM -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, here's the thing: > > AFAIK Firefox lacks JACK support (in the sense that you can start JACK > and then Firefox and then, automatically, all I/O audio-ports Firefox > generated, appear as available JACK connections, let's say), ev

Re: Issue with disabling Intel turbo boost via systemd

2020-06-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 12:01:58AM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi Reco, > > Thank you for your feedback. > > 6 juin 2020 à 19:55 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > > > On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 05:39:00PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > > >> I have frequent warning/4 entries in my jou

Re: Issue with disabling Intel turbo boost via systemd

2020-06-07 Thread l0f4r0
Hi Joe, 7 juin 2020 à 01:31 de pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu: > Lucky you! My laptop just went ahead and went into thermal shutdown > before the system noticed it was getting hot. > Ow! Frustrating... Frequently? What computer/model do you have? > This doesn't directly address your questions involving c