Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-11 Thread songbird
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: >> Your message to which I am replying contains no HTML. >> >> Likewise the previous one, which is why I wrote "Thank you. That works." > > Ok. Thank you too. Have a good day. thank you both. makes it much easier to read to not have extra included at the bottom.

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Your message to which I am replying contains no HTML. > > Likewise the previous one, which is why I wrote "Thank you. That works." Ok. Thank you too. Have a good day.

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread David
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 13:45, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > Thank you. That works. That's what I do, as another > > Gmail user who attempts to do the right thing here :) > > It does not affect us Gmail users, but it does annoy > > many other people here. > Ok, I just hope that the HTML version

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Thank you. That works. That's what I do, as another > Gmail user who attempts to do the right thing here :) > It does not affect us Gmail users, but it does annoy > many other people here. Ok, I just hope that the HTML version of Gmail defaults to plain text, I'm not using the normal interface

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread David
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 12:53, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > Please note our code of conduct [1] includes: > > "Please don't send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead." > > Note 'instead', not 'in addition to'. > > [1] https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > Yes, I read

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Please note our code of conduct [1] includes: > "Please don't send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead." > Note 'instead', not 'in addition to'. > > [1] https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Yes, I read your code of conduct, I just thought that unformatted text messages

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread David
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 10:50, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > If I recall correctly, that is done as follows: > > Open a Gmail compose window > > -> click the "more" (3 vertical dots) icon in the bottom toolbar > > -> click on "plain text mode" until a tick-mark appears beside it. > > I believe

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> If I recall correctly, that is done as follows: > > Open a Gmail compose window > -> click the "more" (3 vertical dots) icon in the bottom toolbar > -> click on "plain text mode" until a tick-mark appears beside it. > > I believe that setting then applies to all future messages, until turned

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread David
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 08:31, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > You are sending both HTML and plain text, so those of us who dislike > > the HTML can simply read the plain text. > Sorry, I hope it doesn't cause too much problems. > I don't know how to change that behaviour. If I recall correctly,

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Cant you just upgrade the RAM? My Intel Atom N550 netbook supports 2GB - That's good advice: check whether your machine has the RAM soldered on or has an SODIMM: it might be easy to find a pair of old 1GB SODIMMs to replace the likely pair of 512KB SODIMMs you have. [ In my case, when I have

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> You are sending both HTML and plain text, so those of us who dislike > the HTML can simply read the plain text. Sorry, I hope it doesn't cause too much problems. I don't know how to change that behaviour.

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:06:18 -0400 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > only that i wish people would stop posting HTML. > > Sorry, I don't know if I'm posting on HTML, gmail does everything > automatically > and doesn't let me set the messages to be sent as plain text. You are sending both HTML

Re: OT: Footnotes in email (Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 mar 21, 11:30:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I've never heard of an E-mail client that supports automating this, and > > I'm not entirely sure I'd want it automated, although a "did you forget > > to finish this?" reminder such as my Thunderbird configuration provides > > when I type a

Re: OT: Footnotes in email (Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 mar 21, 11:07:49, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-10 at 11:00, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I see that you and a few other people use what I'll call footnotes in > > your emails, e.g. (with lots of things stripped out): > > > > I'm curious how you do that, or more specifically,

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Of course, you can manually download Firefox from the official Website and use it on a older system. It will probably work for a few years until Firefox needs a lib which the old Version does not have. > > But using the version of Firefox from Debian is much more comfortable, as it simply just

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> only that i wish people would stop posting HTML. Sorry, I don't know if I'm posting on HTML, gmail does everything automatically and doesn't let me set the messages to be sent as plain text.

Re: Plasma can be a lightweight (was: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10; and was also: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?)

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
On 10/03/2021 07:23, "Felix Miata" wrote: > > Felix Miata composed on 2021-03-10 05:33 (UTC-0500): > > > Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z composed on 2021-03-09 19:00 (UTC-0400): > > >> I have been reading throughout the Web > >> that Xfce4 is not so lightweight as it was before. > >> Apparently, its

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread mmDebMail2020
Am 10.03.21 um 01:18 schrieb Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z: Well, I could try to wait a little with Debian 9 as I did with Windows 7. That thing of no software updates is very weird. Windows 7 is many years old yet I can still use the latest version of Firefox. Isn't there a way to update user

Re: Multipart HTML emails (was: Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread songbird
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:06:59 AM songbird wrote: >> Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: >> > PS: If I'm not using the mailing list properly, let me know, >> > I never used any before. >> >> only that i wish people would stop posting HTML. > > I don't like HTML in

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/10/2021 09:06 AM, songbird wrote: Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: ... [snip] my preference with that little memory would be to install a lightweight desktop (i use MATE and that works fine for my purposes). I originally used Gnome2 because it was available and tolerated/assumed my

Re: OT: Footnotes in email (Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I've never heard of an E-mail client that supports automating this, and > I'm not entirely sure I'd want it automated, although a "did you forget > to finish this?" reminder such as my Thunderbird configuration provides > when I type a word like "attach" but don't include an attachment might >

Multipart HTML emails (was: Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread rhkramer
Songbird and all, On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:06:59 AM songbird wrote: > Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > PS: If I'm not using the mailing list properly, let me know, > > I never used any before. > > only that i wish people would stop posting HTML. I don't like HTML in emails, but I don't

Re: OT: Footnotes in email (Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-10 at 11:00, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Andrei POPESCU and all: > > I see that you and a few other people use what I'll call footnotes in > your emails, e.g. (with lots of things stripped out): > > On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 09:08:30 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Packages from

OT: Footnotes in email (Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread rhkramer
Andrei POPESCU and all: I see that you and a few other people use what I'll call footnotes in your emails, e.g. (with lots of things stripped out): On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 09:08:30 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Packages from backports are generally good enough to run even on > "important"

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread songbird
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: ... > Hello. > > I'm new to GNU/Linux systems. I would like to know > why the RAM requirements showed here: > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch03s04.en.html > are double the size of those displayed here: >

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 09 mar 21, 20:18:52, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > Sorry, I wasn't very clear there. You are correct that 9 is still > > getting support, especially security updates. However, older versions > > of Debian don't get newer versions of the software. Not all security > > fixes can be

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 09 mar 21, 20:00:15, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > > I'd start with Debian 10 and LXDE or LxQt: > > https://opensource.com/article/19/12/lxqt-lxde-linux-desktop > > > > and switch to the Debian 9 only if they work really slow. > > Sounds reasonable, but I would prefer to not download > 4

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:39:14AM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > By the way: some people use bare window managers instead of full-fledged > desktop environments. "Bare" is such a mean word. I call them traditional window managers. > > Some window managers (like TWM) can run on 8MB of RAM:). The

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Been there. When first using Debian I was on dial-up ;} > There are several vendors with Debian on various media. > See: https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ > > My current connection is faster (via cellular network) and my service has a 2GB/month data cap. > I am currently using >

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/09/2021 06:00 PM, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > How much ram do you have? > If it is 4Gb or less you should probably use i386 instead of the amd64 version of Debian. Yes, I was reading the amd64 version because I was also attempting to install Debian on a 4GB and Intel Core 2 Duo vPro

Re: Plasma can be a lightweight (was: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread Felix Miata
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z composed on 2021-03-09 19:00 (UTC-0400): Stefan Monnier composed on 2021-03-09 17:46 (UTC-0500): ... >> I have a 1GB laptop here >> (with XFCE4) and using Firefox on it has been painful for many >>

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Felix Miata
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z composed on 2021-03-09 19:00 (UTC-0400): Stefan Monnier composed on 2021-03-09 17:46 (UTC-0500): ... >> I have a 1GB laptop here >> (with XFCE4) and using Firefox on it has been painful for many >>

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > KDE is one of the oldest DEs, thus has acquired more features. They need > not be used all at once, so need not generate the giant monolith feeling > many would have you believe. It need not use any more RAM than XFCE: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvJOXypAbk There is a

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Felix Miata
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z composed on 2021-03-09 19:22 (UTC-0400): >> My 2 cents worth, Deb10 with either Mate or xfce desktop. KDE/plasma is > great, but I find it slow to load on i7 with 8G ram and add. It has more > config options, but I've gotten over that. Oh, I don't boot often, but I've > grown

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
>> That thing of no software updates is very weird. >> Windows 7 is many years old yet I can still use the latest version of Firefox. > > Yes, but you can't run the latest Chrome on the Windows XP. And you can't run it on Pentium 3 (because it doesn't support the latest SSE4). > Modern software

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread IL Ka
> > That thing of no software updates is very weird. > Windows 7 is many years old yet I can still use the latest version of > Firefox. > Yes, but you can't run the latest Chrome on the Windows XP. And you can't run it on Pentium 3 (because it doesn't support the latest SSE4). Modern software

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear there. You are correct that 9 is still > getting support, especially security updates. However, older versions > of Debian don't get newer versions of the software. Not all security > fixes can be backported. So there is a slow, imperceptible gap between > older

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I wouldn't know since I use XFCE4 everywhere, but the desktop >> environment only has some impact. When it comes to Firefox, the main >> issue is Firefox itself and the pages you visit. > > I had trouble with Firefox in the past on Windows 7, > I had to change to Chrome then. Surprisingly, >

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 19:44:44 -0400 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > I recommend against Debian 9, as it is getting old. I generally > > recommend keeping to the current Debian release for security > > reasons. > > Hmm, I thought that Debian 9 received enough security updates, and it > still have

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Definitely not) Use the Desktop environment like lxde/lxqt: it uses concepts you are already familiar with: Desktop, main menu, icons etc.. I used a Live CD with LXDE on the other PC, it looked fine but it was a bit disappointing compared to Windows 7 Starter. I could not install a firmware

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> How much ram do you have? > If it is 4Gb or less you should probably use i386 instead of the amd64 version of Debian. Yes, I was reading the amd64 version because I was also attempting to install Debian on a 4GB and Intel Core 2 Duo vPro desktop PC, which I thought could run Debian 10 with KDE.

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread deloptes
IL Ka wrote: > By the way: some people use bare window managers instead of full-fledged > desktop environments. > >> Some window managers (like TWM) can run on 8MB of RAM:). The smallest one > is called CWM (created by OpenBSD). > https://packages.debian.org/buster/cwm > > but it is for these

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> By the way: some people use bare window managers instead of full-fledged desktop environments. > > Some window managers (like TWM) can run on 8MB of RAM:). The smallest one is called CWM (created by OpenBSD). > https://packages.debian.org/buster/cwm > > but it is for these old UNIX gurus who

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread IL Ka
> > Thanks for your advice, I think my laptop is from 2013, > but it is Pineview, id est Intel Atom. > How much ram do you have? If it is 4Gb or less you should probably use i386 instead of the amd64 version of Debian. I'd start with Debian 10 and LXDE or LxQt:

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Tell us more about your laptop. Have you tried booting a Debian live CD > on it? Well, my laptop is an Acer Aspire One D255E, it has 1GB of RAM and an Intel Atom Inside N455 with Intel GMA integrated. > I recommend against Debian 9, as it is getting old. I generally > recommend keeping to the

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread IL Ka
By the way: some people use bare window managers instead of full-fledged desktop environments. > Some window managers (like TWM) can run on 8MB of RAM:). The smallest one is called CWM (created by OpenBSD). https://packages.debian.org/buster/cwm but it is for these old UNIX gurus who never leave

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> IMHO: it is better to use the latest Debian even on the old laptop unless your laptop is 15 years old. > > You can try LXDE: https://wiki.debian.org/LXDE > It is very lightweight:) > > "tasksel" (tool that runs when you install Debian) asks you which DE to enable. You can choose LXDE there. > >

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day My 2 cents worth, Deb10 with either Mate or xfce desktop. KDE/plasma is great, but I find it slow to load on i7 with 8G ram and add. It has more config options, but I've gotten over that. Oh, I don't boot often, but I've grown impatient. As I said, my 2 cents worth. -- Keith

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 18:30:15 -0400 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > I'm new to GNU/Linux systems. I would like to know > why the RAM requirements showed here: > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch03s04.en.html > are double the size of those displayed here: >

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> G'day > > My 2 cents worth, Deb10 with either Mate or xfce desktop. KDE/plasma is great, but I find it slow to load on i7 with 8G ram and add. It has more config options, but I've gotten over that. Oh, I don't boot often, but I've grown impatient. > > As I said, my 2 cents worth. Wow, it looks

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread IL Ka
> > Excuse my ignorance, I have a bit old laptop and I don't know if it would > be better > to have Debian 9 so I can, possibly, load KDE on it, or instead Debian 10 > but having to limit myself to lightweight applications only. > IMHO: it is better to use the latest Debian even on the old laptop

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> Debian testing. I see that you use the latest version of the system, maybe it could have some impact on performance. > I wouldn't know since I use XFCE4 everywhere, but the desktop > environment only has some impact. When it comes to Firefox, the main > issue is Firefox itself and the pages

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:46:16 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have a 1GB laptop here > (with XFCE4) and using Firefox on it has been painful for many > years already. There is a bug in the 686 version of vivaldi, or I would recommend it to you. The amd64 version is great for low memory

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I have a 1GB laptop here (with XFCE4) and using Firefox on it has >> been painful for many years already. > May I ask, what version of Debian do you use? Debian testing. > I have been reading throughout the Web that Xfce4 is not so > lightweight as it was before. Apparently, its performance

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
> I have a 1GB laptop here > (with XFCE4) and using Firefox on it has been painful for many > years already. May I ask, what version of Debian do you use? I have been reading throughout the Web that Xfce4 is not so lightweight as it was before. Apparently, its performance is comparable to that

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm new to GNU/Linux systems. I would like to know > why the RAM requirements showed here: > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch03s04.en.html > are double the size of those displayed here: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s04.html.en I think it just reflects the

Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
Hello. I'm new to GNU/Linux systems. I would like to know why the RAM requirements showed here: https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch03s04.en.html are double the size of those displayed here: https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s04.html.en Excuse my ignorance, I have a