Re: Linux needs a security audit

2025-09-15 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Hello, Michael Paoli wrote on 15/09/2025 at 01:20:23+0200: > "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". > Please point to the evidence. > Both Linux and Tor, OpenSource, > and with source/version control and history, etc. > So if they were compromi

Re: Linux needs a security audit

2025-09-14 Thread Michael Paoli
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Please point to the evidence. Both Linux and Tor, OpenSource, and with source/version control and history, etc. So if they were compromised at any point, or even unintentional compromising bugs introduced, one should well be able to

Linux needs a security audit

2025-09-03 Thread dreamy2004
Hi, I am an investigative journalist, whistleblower, and I use Linux, Tor, and other privacy-preserving technologies. I have studied cybersecurity for over 10 years, networking, Linux, and OPSEC principles. I used Linux and Tor to whistleblow information, on major criminals committing crimes

Re: HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

2025-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 12:18:46AM +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: >  How do you dealwith such "secure BIOS" nonsense? By avoiding abusive vendors [works also in other aspects of life]. Fortunately most free markets (with just a few sad exceptions) have a range of vendors. Thanks, Andy

Re: HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

2025-09-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 00:18:46 +0200 (CEST) lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > Would HP let youaccess their BIOS setup, memory card, ... within > Linux? There are plenty of other vendors besides HP and Dell. I had been eyeing a new computer for a while now. It had to be Linux friendly. In Dece

Re: HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

2025-09-02 Thread Dan Purgert
thin a prescribed area! If I'm reading the manual right, it's basically a verification checksum that the BIOS hasn't been tampered with. No different than say APT failing because a downloaded *deb didn't match the releases.txt entry. >  Would HP let youaccess their BIOS setup, m

HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

2025-09-02 Thread lbrtchx
virtual machine. I would stress test using Windows Subsystemfor Linux just fine. I like the java on Linux environment.  Would HP let youaccess their BIOS setup, memory card, ... within Linux?  How do you dealwith such "secure BIOS" nonsense?  lbrtchx

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-31 Thread Michael Paoli
e were - much interested has waned/faded. But regardless, many do still quite continue and are very useful, etc., just mostly not nearly as numerous and large as they once were. And probably mostly because of multiple factors. Once upon a time, installing Linux and getting it reasonably functioning

Re: how do you clear the cache of a firefox's instance running on Debian/Linux programmatically?

2025-08-29 Thread debian-user
lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > One of the firstthings any data analyst learns while working with > tones of documents(html, pdf texts, ...) is that there are always > edge cases which arenot fully syntactically reducible, that you must > eyeball, you can'tsafely deal with them with code. > > Once y

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-28 Thread Tom Ryder
On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 04:54:12AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: Over the years I've helped other radio amateurs make the switch as they were so inclined. LUGs, are like local amateur radio clubs--on life support. The Internet has allowed us to find others with a niche interest that the local g

how do you clear the cache of a firefox's instance running on Debian/Linux programmatically?

2025-08-28 Thread lbrtchx
One of the firstthings any data analyst learns while working with tones of documents(html, pdf texts, ...) is that there are always edge cases which arenot fully syntactically reducible, that you must eyeball, you can'tsafely deal with them with code. Once you have allURLs of edge cases, the

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-27 Thread Tom Browder
I had a small LUG in Niceville, FL, which had about 10 active participants. Since moving to Gulf Breeze, FL (across the bay from Pensacola) in late 2021 I have not found anyone interested in Linux. And P'Cola is a college town (U. of West Florida0 with technical B.S degrees Getting the wor

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-27 Thread Dan Ritter
f not, why not? The Boston Linux/UNIX Users Group (BLU) is reasonably active, with a meeting each month, usually available via video, and a mailing list which is quieter than it used to be but not inactive. You don't have to be in the Boston area to join or attend, just subscribe to t

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/26/25 10:27 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 11:03:41PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Someone mentioned SVLUG during the discussion. They have a website, but it doesn't look like they've had meetings in years, so I'd consider them dormant. And I don't personally know of any

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
The only LUG I ever participated in has been dead for years. That was the Air Capital LUG (ACLUG) centered around Wichita, KS. The mailing list hasn't sent a message in many years. John Goerzen may have shut it all down, I don't recall. This observation might be a bit unfair, but it seemed most

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread tomas
FSFE supporters group). I still hold contact to them. I'd had the choice of two Linux user groups (which still are around), and lots of other cool initiatives (one of the stars: Topio (https://www.topio.info/) who help "ordinary" people install a free OS on their phone, and even he

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 11:03:41PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Someone mentioned SVLUG during the discussion. They have a website, but it > doesn't look like they've had meetings in years, so I'd consider them > dormant. And I don't personally know of any U.S. based LUGs which are still > o

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
not? Thanks, Karen Back in 1996, I helped found the Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, USA. At our first meeting, I handed out a survey asking why people would want to be part of this group and attend meetings. There were two answers. First, people wanted to be

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
true? If not, why not? Thanks, Karen Twenty-five years ago, getting a copy of GNU/Linux and getting Linux installed was not simple. The installation was via Compac Disc (CD). In Houston, Texas, there was a L.U.G. at Rice University and a L.U.G. at the University of Houston. In those days

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Andy, Thanks for your perspective. I am in Toronto Ontario Canada. The specific LUG list I am on covers the greater Toronto area. On Tue, 26 Aug 2025, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, Background: For almost 25 years I've been involved in the operation of https://lug.org.uk/ which provides details

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 12:19:16AM +0100, alain williams wrote: > Before that were Unix User Groups. The first one that I joined was UKUUG (UK > Unix User Group ‡‡) in the 1980s. I went to a couple of UKUUG conferences in the late 90s / early 2000s. I always paid for my own attendance as no e

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread alain williams
tion, ie the Internet, but also the focus moved on from operating systems to applications - so there were things like Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL conferences -- meet ups more than membership groups. ‡‡ of which I was chair for a while. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, Background: For almost 25 years I've been involved in the operation of https://lug.org.uk/ which provides details of, and hosting for, LUGs in the UK. My company still hosts all of lug.org.uk's infrastructure. On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 06:24:56PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Having a discussi

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Felix Miata
t; someone feels lugs are largely failing. >> Do you find this to be true? >> If not, why not? > > I bite. What is a "lug"? Linux User Group -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, Was going to mark this as off topic. then I realized it may be where many of you engage with Debian. Having a discussion on the board of the lug in my area. someone feels lugs are largely failing. Do you find this to be true? If not, why not? Thanks, Karen

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread alain williams
scussion on the board of the lug in my area. > > someone feels lugs are largely failing. > > Do you find this to be true? > > If not, why not? > > > I bite. What is a "lug"? Linux User Group. They tended to be geographic region based, many would have monthly/.

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi all, > Was going to mark this as off topic. then I realized it may be where many > of you engage with Debian. > Having a discussion on the board of the lug in my area. > someone feels lugs are largely failing. > Do you find this to be t

Question about compiling the linux kernel

2025-08-16 Thread maria.shrivinski
When compiling the kernel with make -j `getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN` deb-pkg the resulting .deb packages are generated in the parent directory. Is there a way to choose a specific directory where those packages will be placed? I have researched this issue and found partial answers about modifying

Re: Any general way of logging output from utilities in Debian/Linux? ...

2025-08-15 Thread Nikolay Tychina
On 8/14/25 20:50, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: I need to log the output of utilities in a way that I always know its version, for which I have been using a file with lines of text, each line containing 5 fields with all you need: |||line>| texlive-extra-utils|pdfcrop|--version|1|3 pdftote

Any general way of logging output from utilities in Debian/Linux? ...

2025-08-14 Thread lbrtchx
I need to log theoutput of utilities in a way that I always know its version, forwhich I have been using a file with lines of text, each linecontaining 5 fields with all you need: texlive-extra-utils|pdfcrop|--version|1|3 pdftotext|pdftotext|-v|1|3 kate|kate|--version|1|2 yt-dlp|y

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed. (Resolved)

2025-07-21 Thread Thomas D Dial
Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions. I tried or has already tried a number of them, including much of Greg Wooledge's nicely detailed recommendation and Michael's below (although not neatly packaged into a pipeline). None was fully successful. In wandering through the various zfs s

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-21 Thread Michael Paoli
ng libc6:amd64 (2.36-9+deb12u10) over (2.36-9+deb12u1) ... > > > > dpkg: error processing archive > > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-UE9ugP/21-libc6_2.36-9+deb12u10_amd64.deb (--unpack): > > unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such &g

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-20 Thread Michael Paoli
Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.36-9+deb12u10) over (2.36-9+deb12u1) ... > > dpkg: error processing archive > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-UE9ugP/21-libc6_2.36-9+deb12u10_amd64.deb (--unpack): > unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such > file or directory > &g

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 10:52:36 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 20/07/2025 13:22, Tom Dial wrote: > > > unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No > > > such fil

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-20 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 20/07/2025 13:22, Tom Dial wrote: > > unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No > > such file or directory > try: "sudo apt update" "sudo apt purge ld-linux" "

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/07/2025 13:22, Tom Dial wrote:  unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory Do you have lib -> usr/lib and lib64 -> usr/lib64 symlinks in / ? Perhaps you may run statically linked tools busybox sh If it is not installed,

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-20 Thread Nicolas George
Thomas Southerland (HE12025-07-20): > pool then chroot into the broken file system. > > At that point, apt update and apt upgrade should work. No, they should not. Booting on another system and chrooting is for when the system does not want to boot or does not want to let you in, but it still req

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-20 Thread Thomas Southerland
) over (2.36-9+deb12u1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-UE9ugP/21-libc6_2.36-9+deb12u10_amd64.deb (--unpack):  unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new libc6:amd64 pac

Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

2025-07-19 Thread Tom Dial
processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-UE9ugP/21-libc6_2.36-9+deb12u10_amd64.deb (--unpack): unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new libc6:amd64 package post-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/p

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-10 Thread David Christensen
On 7/10/25 16:37, rickm...@shaw.ca wrote: On 2025-07-10 04:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On 7/9/25 22:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: In 30 years I've never seen an isolated network. May I ask how this might be done? An alternative example (with no Wi-Fi): * One switch or hub. Connect to power.

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-10 Thread rickmacd
On 2025-07-10 04:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 23:23:29 -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> On 7/9/25 22:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: >>> In 30 years I've never seen an isolated network. May I ask how this >>> might be done? >> Assuming an Internet gateway with 4 LAN ports and Wi-

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-10 Thread Joe
On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:57:10 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 23:23:29 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > On 7/9/25 22:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > In 30 years I've never seen an isolated network. May I ask how > > > this might be done? > > > > Assuming an Internet ga

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 23:23:29 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 7/9/25 22:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > In 30 years I've never seen an isolated network. May I ask how this > > might be done? > > Assuming an Internet gateway with 4 LAN ports and Wi-Fi, and a server with 1 > LAN port, turn off

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread David Christensen
On 7/9/25 22:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 2025-07-09 18:43, David Christensen wrote: On 7/9/25 10:39, Rick Macdonald wrote: I had a question that I forgot to add to my initial long post. This was since "top" didn't show any great CPU usage, could the encryption have been performed on another

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 2025-07-09 18:43, David Christensen wrote: On 7/9/25 10:39, Rick Macdonald wrote: I had a question that I forgot to add to my initial long post. This was since "top" didn't show any great CPU usage, could the encryption have been performed on another machine (Windows or one of my 3 Androi

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread David Christensen
f an attack on it. This is my mother's PC. She passed away at age 100 a year ago. The PC is on and connected to the network, but I don't do much on it. I also booted up 1 of my 3 Android Kodi boxes. No new attacks on my Linux server. I'll look at the other 2 next. The on

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 02:00:15PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I t seems something is opening every file in my Media share: The thing is that something like Kodi will be scanning through all the files it has access to in order to update its media library, for example, as an intended part o

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 2025-07-09 12:26, Šarūnas Burdulis wrote: On 7/9/25 1:39 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote: ... I checked, and sure enough, smb.conf had world-writeable permissions. I've seen where some Kodi web pages suggest this. I've had it this way for many years, but now I have made it read-only. In samba

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread Šarūnas Burdulis
On 7/9/25 1:39 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote: ... I checked, and sure enough, smb.conf had world-writeable permissions. I've seen where some Kodi web pages suggest this. I've had it this way for many years, but now I have made it read-only. In samba logs you might be able to see which hosts did wh

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 2025-07-07 23:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 09:44:11PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: [...] The main point is to find out which system was hit. According to the description it looks like the Linux server itself wasn't hit, but a different system that can access

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 07:17:25AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 07:17:36AM +0200, john doe wrote: > > In this case, a perimeter firewall will not help. > > > > You likely got compromised by downloading something from the internet or > > via e-mail. > > That is unlike

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 07:17:36AM +0200, john doe wrote: In this case, a perimeter firewall will not help. You likely got compromised by downloading something from the internet or via e-mail. That is unlikely if the generated files were owned by nobody rather than the user.

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread David Christensen
On 7/6/25 19:47, Rick Macdonald wrote: After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago. On 7/7/25 17:18, David Christensen wrote: Please boot live media in the server, open a root terminal, mount

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
ńca had guessed. Samba (mis-)configuration probably to blame for user "nobody" (meaning shares were accessible anonymously without password) and "777/666 permissions" (too liberal user mask was set and\or Windows doesn't know how to set linux permissions). So is there

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 09:44:11PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: [...] > The main point is to find out which system was hit. > According to the description it looks like the Linux server itself > wasn't hit, but a different system that can access files on the server > via net

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread David Christensen
On 7/6/25 19:47, Rick Macdonald wrote: I apologize for the length of this question. After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago. I would power off all computers on your network. Only

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 7/7/25 05:28, Karl Vogel wrote: On Sun 06 Jul 2025 at 22:55:22 (-0400), Rick Macdonald wrote: After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago. I have backups, so nothing important has been

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2025-07-07 at 00:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I stopped running samba a year or more ago. If I have something to > get onto > Windows, or something to get off of it, I boot Linux. That need is > rare. It was > probably last year when I last had any reason to boot Windows.

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-07, Karl Vogel wrote: >>> On Sun 06 Jul 2025 at 22:55:22 (-0400), Rick Macdonald wrote: > >> After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that), >> my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago. >> I have bac

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread Kamil Jońca
Rick Macdonald writes: > I apologize for the length of this question. > > After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to > that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 > days ago. I have backups, so nothing important has been lost

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-06 Thread john doe
On 7/7/25 06:02, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:47:22PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago. Another machine running firewall

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-06 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 20:47 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I apologize for the length of this question. > > After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to > that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 > days > ago. I have b

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-06 Thread Felix Miata
Karl Vogel composed on 2025-07-06 23:28 (UTC-0400): > I don't know the attack method, but I'd suspect smb first I stopped running samba a year or more ago. If I have something to get onto Windows, or something to get off of it, I boot Linux. That need is rare. It was probably las

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-06 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 04:02:26AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:47:22PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to > > that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:47:22PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago. Another machine running firewall sofware is cheap (in terms of electricity, noise

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-06 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sun 06 Jul 2025 at 22:55:22 (-0400), Rick Macdonald wrote: > After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that), > my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago. > I have backups, so nothing important has been lost at this point

Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

2025-07-01 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > It appears US President Trump is good for Linux. > > > > >From "This city is dumping Microso

Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

2025-07-01 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > It appears US President Trump is good for Linux. > > >From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice > and Linux - here's why", > <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-d

Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

2025-07-01 Thread Marco Möller
On 01.07.25 21:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: It appears US President Trump is good for Linux. From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux - here's why", <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-on

OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

2025-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
It appears US President Trump is good for Linux. >From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux - here's why", <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/>: Is i

More effective searching (was: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?)

2025-06-30 Thread Jan Claeys
On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 07:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Side Issue -- Google and DuckDuckGo seem more interested in quantity > rather than quality. Any pointers to search engine with friendly > Boolean search? TIA "You" "can" "try" "putting" "double" "quotes" "around" "every" "word" AND "word

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Dan Purgert
; My web search turned up little relevant detail. > > > > > > > > Suggestions? > > > > > > > > TIA > > > The chipset is important. The RTL2832U is working well and is well > > > suported in > > > linux. > > > > >

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 7:53 PM, Van Snyder wrote: On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 06:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to r

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
to a local station while working. I'd also want to record as MP3 for listening at a more convenient time. My web search turned up little relevant detail. Suggestions? TIA The chipset is important. The RTL2832U is working well and is well suported in linux. As GUI most people are using GQR

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
Korea I always tried to get DVB-TV to work on Linux but never found a device and software for it. I usually do not use streaming audio/video from the internet as I use a 5G metered connection to the internet. I get 10 Gig of Hotspot and I have two phones so I get 20 Gig Total hotspot a month. I a

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
so want to record as MP3 for listening at a more convenient time. My web search turned up little relevant detail. Suggestions? TIA The chipset is important. The RTL2832U is working well and is well suported in linux. As GUI most people are using GQRX in linux, but I heard, some windows gui

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 9:28 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 24, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/23/25 9:28 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > [https://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 approaches my goal] > > > > That adafruit one is OK. I'm not a big fan of the MCX connector, since > > you're a bit tied to that

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread 🦓
Op di 24 jun 2025 om 04:05 schreef 🦓 : > arent sum chip antennae good enough to decode fm radio? didya ask > r...@gnu.org? (i was talking software radio hacking your libre foss bluetooth driver without any usb dongles (since wifi antennae have been observing colleagues thru tel aviv university

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 06:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 > so I > can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record > as > MP3 for listening

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > > > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so > > > I can listen to a loca

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Hans
record as > MP3 for listening at a more convenient time. > > My web search turned up little relevant detail. > > Suggestions? > > TIA The chipset is important. The RTL2832U is working well and is well suported in linux. As GUI most people are using GQRX in linux, but I heard

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record as MP3 for

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread John Dow
> On 23 Jun 2025, at 13:10, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. >> I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so >> I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so > I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record > as MP3 for listening at a more convenient tim

Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record as MP3 for listening at a more convenient time. My web search turned up little relevant

[OFF TOPIC] Recommended backup software to clone Android (Linux) phones to image files

2025-06-09 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Subject: Recommended backup software to clone Android (Linux) phones to image files Good day from Singapore, Acronis True Image backup software can be used to clone Windows 10 and 11 to image files with the extension of .tibx. I am wondering if Acronis True Image backup software can be used

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-25 Thread COMCAST
/var/lib/NetworkManager/internal-05c32b5f-6a7e-4b7b-a858-a19fd3d6a5a3-wlo1.lease /var/lib/NetworkManager/internal-4eb92ca8-bc1c-3546-9ba9-cfd0dc4fda00-enp0s25.lease These are the two files I was looking for. I found them quite by accident. I hope you will find them useful.

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-23 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-20, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2025 12:04:16 -0400 > COMCAST wrote: > >> That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can >> publish? > > It's rather good advice, even if it is a bit much and unsolicited. I'll > add to it: insulting people does not end

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 04:39:56PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-05-19, David Christensen wrote: > > When posting to a mailing list, the Subject line is crucial. Yours is > > No, it is not, and it should not contain essential information because > hardly anyone ever gives it more than a rap

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-22 Thread Nicolas George
Greg (HE12025-05-22): > > When posting to a mailing list, the Subject line is crucial. Yours is > No, it is not, Yes it is. >and it should not contain essential information because It definitely should contain all the information essential for deciding if the mail is worth read

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-22 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-19, David Christensen wrote: > > When posting to a mailing list, the Subject line is crucial. Yours is No, it is not, and it should not contain essential information because hardly anyone ever gives it more than a rapid glance. And please refrain, now that we're giving posting advic

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 12:04:16PM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can > publish? If this is your reaction, I'll spare you my drivel, too. You won't hear from me further, promised. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 May 2025 12:04:16 -0400 COMCAST wrote: > That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can > publish? It's rather good advice, even if it is a bit much and unsolicited. I'll add to it: insulting people does not endear you to them. We're all volunteers here, and w

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-20 Thread COMCAST
does in Linux use to the store network address in? On 5/19/25 11:11, COMCAST wrote: Close bu no cooky. My install of Debian docent even have those files. Please proofread your posts and use the spell checker in your mail client. Your posts indicate that you are experiencing the X-Y Problem

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-19 Thread David Christensen
Please use interleaved posting style rather than top-posting style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style On 5/18/25 06:42, COMCAST wrote: > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? On 5/19/25 11:11, COMCAST wrote: Close bu no cooky. My install of Debian doc

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-19 Thread COMCAST
Close bu no cooky. My install of Debian docent even have those files. On 5/18/25 11:35, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2025, 9:16 AM wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? If you mean "what

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 10:35:37 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > If you mean "what file contains the IP address and hostname of my own > server?": It depends whether you use NetworkManager to configure networking > or the older style. > > In the older style the config file goes in /etc/sysconfig

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
M Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025, 9:16 AM wrote: > >> On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: >> > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? >> > > If you mean "what file contains the IP address and hostname

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, May 18, 2025, 9:16 AM wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? > If you mean "what file contains the IP address and hostname of my own server?": It depends whether you

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