You don't want to do this if you plan on keeping that install around
more than a few months to maybe a couple years. IPv6 is kind of the way
forward.
Seeing how it's been the way forward for the last, what, 10 years,
I wouldn't worry too much about it,
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Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to
the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install
any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy
modified config files, mails, bookmarks, etc?
If you can connect both disks at the same time,
Is there some way to install Sugar in Debian testing?
I tried the aptitude --with-recommends install sugar but it basically
forces me to downgrade most of Gnome to stable.
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I've recently noticed that Firefox redraw is *really* slow on
my Debian testing machines.
I'm not sure if it's only Firefox or if it also affects some
other applications. It doesn't seem specific to a particular X driver
(I see it both with nv and with radeon).
I almost get the impression that
Please see [1]. You probably want sucrose-0.86 for now; sucrose-0.88 still
has a few problems [2,3] (the fixes got delayed by the recent
ries.debian.org outage).
Thanks, sucrose-0.86 indeed seems to install properly.
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will be listed as Pending. Pending sectors are much worse than
Reallocated sectors, as Pending sectors mean lost data (if the sector
Indeed. OTOH Pending sectors can be eliminated by turning them into
Reallocated sectors (just write to the corresponding sector), whereas
Reallocated sectors
I'm thinking to replace this IDE drive with two SATA HDs. One as small as
I can get. Say 100GB or so and make that the boot drive. And a second HD say
500GB or so and moving the LVM over to that.
That begs the question: why exactly do you want 2 drives, and why do you
want one of the two to be
If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use
mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance
here and there (depends on application).
I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not
human error.
And I disagree with that.
With the
Has someone managed to get the IEGD driver working under Debian testing?
If so, which kernel version and Xorg server?
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If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use
mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance
here and there (depends on application).
I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not
human error.
And I disagree with that.
With the
My reason is quite complicated, and is really justified. Briefly, one
person that I know needs to have some report I wrote, but this person
should not be able neither to print it nor to extract content from it,
for a simple reason: this person could transmit a part (or the whole)
[of the]
My debian server will soon get a complete new hardware (motherboard, cpu,
memory, stb.).
Have anybody a good idea how to replace the old computer without reinstall
the whole system?
Yup: use your old disk in the new machine (or make a clone if you want
to use a new disk).
In 99% of the cases,
You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get around
this issue.
Oh right, there's this as well. If you use LVM (can't think of any
reason not to), then it's a non-issue since your volumes are
all labelled.
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What would it be the recommended architecture/versioin to choose for
download an install?
I'd go with an i386 install unless you have more than 3GB of RAM, in
which case I'd go with an amd64 install (or an i386 with a 686-bigmem
kernel).
If you have other i386 machines around, it may be
The 64-bit vs 32-bit argument is multi-faceted. It gets much deeper than
just addressing more than 3GB of RAM:
* twice the transfer width on the bus
Nope, no difference on the bus. Most accesses will be
cache-line-sized anyway at that level.
* no memory split issues
For =3GB systems,
I for one want to get my money out of my hardware. If
you don't want a 64-bit system, then why did you pay for it?
+1
Very few people pay for 64bit and most of those who pay are the same
who used to pay for GHz rather than for performance (read: Pentium 4).
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The 64-bit vs 32-bit argument is multi-faceted. It gets much deeper than
just addressing more than 3GB of RAM:
* twice the transfer width on the bus
Nope, no difference on the bus. Most accesses will be
cache-line-sized anyway at that level.
You're kidding, right?
Not at all.
You can
If you have other i386 machines around, it may be convenient for you to
keep the same architecture so you can share the download bandwidth of
Debian updates, and things like that.
On the other hand, now might be a good time to begin the migration to the
future. 32-bits will be around for a
My recommendation is to stay way from acroread which handles this
use-case very poorly.
Stefan who happens to use pdflatex instead but that makes no
difference in this regard anyway
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I always perceived a lack of interest. Few people really want to work
on it, it seems. I root for Gnash, but I go ahead and use Adobe's
non-free player.
As long as you use adobe's player, you're not really rooting for Gnash.
The former is becoming mooted by the advent of HTML5. The latter
Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack
for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Professional.
In the GNU/Linux world, being able to edit PDF files is not considered
as a worthwhile feature. Better edit the file in some other format, and
only use PDF for
There are many situations where the user has the PDF file but lacks the
original document, and if you want to perform any modification in that
file, we (linux users) are stuck :-/
But in the Free Software world, we usually consider that not having the
course is a problem in itself. Being
I'm not judging whether that attitude is right or not, I'm just giving
it as an explanation why you don't see good support for PDF
editing here. It's a problem that most people don't even bump into
(except when they receive forms from the Windows world).
snip
I would disagree.
You don't
are there any advices for diskless notebooks that is compatible with
Debian Lenny or Squeeze?
What means diskless? Do you mean without a harddrive or without
removable media (like CD/DVD/floppy)? Something else?
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Anyone have any idea why compiz won't work with newer fglrx drivers?
I don't. But I have use the `radeon' driver with compiz. Have you
tried it? It's better for your karma and won't suffer from those kinds
of problems you're experiencing.
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for much. But I am opposed to the removal of lilo. Both grub-legacy and
grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of the master boot record
(cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1). In other words they use cylinder 0, head 0,
sector 2 and possibly subsequent sectors on cylinder 0 head 0.
Really?
For grub2, set GRUB_DEFAULT=saved in /etc/default/grub, run
update-grub, and run grub-set-default x (where x is the default
entry from which you want to boot and the count starts at 0).
The approach is use is that /etc/rc.local does:
cp /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) /boot/vmlinuz-latest
If, we consider that the environment has changed; we have Red Hut,
Ubuntu and Suse; pushing to include every thing into the kernel, what
is the best for them, then we have a huge kernel; which is not the
best for older ordenators, but it is the best for newer boxes. As we
can see, Linus is
Maybe, but ext4 support is not really crucial. Simply make /boot ext2.
Actually ext3 works fine.
Having /boot on a separate partition for robustness, security or
advanced features (encrypted LVM and stuff) is one thing, but having it
because the default bootloader doesn't support current
And so they market it heavily. Thus the Web sites that say To read
this you need Acroread, not To read this you need a PDF viewer.
I try to complain to each one of those websites about the fact that
their site is factually wrong. I encourage every supporter of Free
Software or Open Source
Where do I do that from the debian installer ? (I used option LVM on
entire disk).
If you use LVM then every logical volume already has a name
(independently from the label you may have set or not on each file
system).
So just use that insted of a UUID. I.e. use something like
How could I manage to make the process of using Performance
automatically?
Most likely the setting you currently have is one which automatically
adjusts the frequency based on the amount of work there is for the CPU:
if it's busy, the frequency will climb to 100%.
The computer I am speaking
Ondemand, the same as what appears in the applet, after boot.
However, despite Ondemand, even a huge CPU load does not make Debian
asking for more CPU resources, such as 100%.
Notice that ondemand and such are completely implemented inside the
kernel. So all the relevant parameters are in
How about a PIII-500 machine with 384 MB RAM running from an 1GB USB
stick?
Machines with much smaller memory and slower processor were used as
departmental mail servers not that long ago. Believe me, it's a no
brainer. I run postfix on my Neo Freerunner (128MB RAM) and haven't
noticed it
I was wondering if someone could explain how to install flash player
on debian? Thank you.
I did aptitude install gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash way back then.
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Indeed this is working. ( Test it with 2 identical USB-keys)
But I think this is not a solution because the target usb is not the same
size and make.
It will work as long as the destination is as large or larger than
the source.
If the new key is larger, the added space will stay unused after
I have debian installed onto a 4gb usb stick (my laptops HD crashed
and i'm using this as a temporary solution till i get it fixed). All
works great. The only issue is that periodically, the whole system
will freeze for 1-3 seconds and then come back. It doesn't matter if
I'm just doing some
There's a protocol standards revision in the works, called TRIM, that will
allow the host to tell the flash what parts of the file system can be
erased and what it needs to keep. This will allow smarter garbage
collecting, which can happen in the background.
Actually the TRIM thingy is not
I really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately
acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The
option Fit to printable area in the print dialogue.
[...]
Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any
easy way to achieve the same
I've a file $HOME/.rsync-EXCLUDE (listing files to exclude from my rsync
based backup scripts) but when I try and save it, emacs refuses with
message
File /Users/mkbane/RCS/.rsync-EXCLUDE is not an RCS master file
ANy thoughts? (I need to check this holds for all my emacs... this
So, I was wondering if I get a standard wireless router and feed it
with an internet connection from the laptop, configuring my computer
as a dhcp server.
I can't think of any reason why you couldn't do it (especially if you
install OpenWRT on the router). But I wonder: why have your laptop
I installed the AMD64 Debian on my AMD64 box (emachines T6520 by the
way). Ever since the time I installed it, everytime I ran apt-get,
I was given a couple screenfulls of package names that were no longer
needed and could be removed by apt-get autoremove and 512M of disk
space would be
How can I work around this and what to do? My old kernel 2.6.26 works
fine How to force initrd to load the dm-mod and other
device-mapper kernel modules?
I have added
dm_mod
dm_log
dm_snapshot
dm_mirror
to
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules
file and then
did
dpkg-reconfigure
Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY
commands from Debian OS?
I'll just agree with Johannes here: if you value your data enough to try
and recover deleted files, then you *should* *really* be doing
regular backups. Hardware failures do happen.
Stefan
My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU
It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB)
I have 2 similar boxes, one running 686-bigmem and one running amd64.
Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit
with bigmem kernel. The questions are:
I don't use any
It seems not to work with my Broadcom BCM4322 and kernel 2.6.31 .
It works well for many people under various kernel versions, so you may
want to insist a bit, or at least post a description of the way it
doesn't work (dmesg output would be a good start, along with
a description of what you've
It seems not to work with my Broadcom BCM4322 and kernel 2.6.31 .
It works well for many people under various kernel versions, so you may
want to insist a bit, or at least post a description of the way it
doesn't work (dmesg output would be a good start, along with
a description of what
can the *same* ports be shared among simultaneously running
applications or not?
Depends on what you mean by port and by shared. But IIUC, in your
case you're talking about having several programs listening on the same
port number on the same machine on the same interface, so the answer
would
A friend of mine, said I should look at Redhats GFS, but i dont know how the
co would feel about looking at Redhat.
AFAIK it's not specific to RedHat, they just happen to be the original
designers of it. It should be available under any distribution,
including gNewSense and Debian.
How can I go uninstalling some of the unneeded kernels (particularly
the backports one which didn't meet my needs in the end) and make sure
that *everything* that got installed by their respective packages -- or
built against the particular kernel, such as my wireless and graphics
modules
evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous levels
(95 deg. Celsius). As soon as I start a game, it rises, and as soon as
I stop it it falls.
Sounds like a hardware problem; most likely a fan problem: either it's
clogged, or it's broken, or something.
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an a running system?
There is, but it only works if that partition table is currently
unused (i.e. none of its partitions are mounted).
That's one of the reasons to use LVM where you can grow/shrink volumes
easily without
1. Back up to removable hard drives
2. Span multiple target volumes
3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a single
backup to the user.
4. Maintain an easily monitored index so the user can see which drive
will be needed for a particular backup or restore operation.
5.
3. Buy a 2.5 external HDD. But I'm told that when these fall,
they're much more likely to break than flash.
If you buy an external 2'5 SSD disk, there's no such problem.
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Hello. You do not have to leave your laptop running if it has
wake-on-LAN. To check if your laptop supports this, check your BIOS
for settings such as wake-on-lan, wake-on-ethernet, wol, etc.
You can then start your laptop with etherwake or a similar program.
There are many good guides on
In other words, I have a Debian-based server, connected to amplifier and
speakers and I want to use that server to play my audio. So I'd need a server
software that would listen to data and output it to speakers and I'd also
need a client software that would act as a virtual sound card.
You
When I plug the SD card in, the reader shows an orange light, showing
its detected something, but (for instance) running fdisk -l does not
show it, and I cannot see any devices appearing in /dev (such as
/dev/sd[cdef]1) to indicated the card is seen.
What does `dmesg' say?
Stefan
STFW briefly just now, I don't see VirtualBox OSE Windows binaries.
I recall having the same result the last time I looked.
Luckily we have a good solution for that: use Debian.
Stefan Can you please move that Windows-talk crap elsewhere?
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I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition
to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling.
I have a Live USB Debian system that follows this idea (i.e. it's
just a plain normal Debian install, except it works off of a USB stick).
. clone the lenny partition
I guess the better way is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is
available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and
get an in-depth understanding of how it really works.
I understand just fine how it works: when the network interface is
discovered (typically at boot),
I guess the better way is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is
available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and
get an in-depth understanding of how it really works.
I understand just fine how it works: when the network interface is
discovered (typically at
What always bothers me with boot loaders is that they need a system to
configure manage them. Now, in a multi-boot system, the next question
is which one?
100% agreement. As much as I hate Apple, they got some of the boot
loader right. Grub2 should follow their lead: build up (most of) the
For the money and compatibility you're probably better off going with an
actual SATA controller instead of that Frankenstein adatper.
Agreed, in case you have a choice, go for the SATA controller.
OTOH, I use one of those frankenstein adapters in a small box (wl700ge
home router) where the
As much as I hate Apple, they got some of the boot loader right.
Easy with total control of the hardware.
That's just an excuse: from my Grub2 prompt, I can list the contents of
just about all my partitions, so obviously there's no hardware issues in
the way to let Grub2 look for target kernels
Should I expect it to work out of the box?
Yes, always. If something doesn't work out of the box, it's usually one
of 2 things:
- a bug in GNU/Linux
- a proprietary/crappy piece of junk
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CUPS, install LPRng and configure it to work. But what is interesting
is that LPRng proved better for a network printer than CUPS: its lpq
command does what it is supposed to by showing me the printer queue
status and not merely the local queue status. lprm also works out of
the box.
I
This does not only apply to client applications, but also to computers
configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only set-up and
configure a printer on one server for a whole network. With a default
debian installation, the clients on the network will discover the
printer
Yes, but... Debian specific? :-)
In most respects, this is completely unrelated to the disribution
you use.
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Without kvm support, qemu is *quite a bit* slower. Now, exactly *why*
somebody, in this day and age, would still go on manufacturing
processors without hardware virtualization support built in, is beyond
me. The production costs are in all probability virtually
identical...
It's called
Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/
replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say
Actually, with hybrid cars, the battery cost is pretty high as well.
Batteries in laptops are very important: longer autonomy is an important
selling
Please can you tell me if Debian squeeze 64 bit accepts more than 4GB ram,
ie 8GB?
Yes. And Debian 32bit also supports 8GB.
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Check that there is a tick for
Show printers shared by other systems
IIUC this doesn't exist in the cups version of Debian testing.
Instead you need to install cups-browsed to get this functionality.
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You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in
Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters!
That's because it was Latin-1. If you tried Latin-2 you'd see them ;-)
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1: In fact, I think that meta-packages should only have recommendations and
suggestions, since they are automatically installed by a default Debian
configuration.
I agree that Debian's dependency management would benefit from some
extra refinements. The above suggestion is not quite
Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running
Debian i386 ?
I wouldn't expect it to work if the bottom kernel is i386.
But if the bottom kernel is amd64 (which can be used just fine nowadays
with a 32bit userland), it can be made to work.
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Small or smallish form factor (currently using a slim tower), attractive
SSD (small capacity--everything impt is on a NAS elsewhere, i just want the
system to run fast)
Ability to have two monitors (currently using VGA and HDMI 'cause that's
the ports i have)
Optical drive
Lots
Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running
Debian i386 ?
I wouldn't expect it to work if the bottom kernel is i386.
But if the bottom kernel is amd64 (which can be used just fine nowadays
with a 32bit userland), it can be made to work.
Except for Virtualbox, last time I
There are considerable price increases with each quite small increase in
speed-- hundreds of dollars--, but over two or three years I think the extra
dollars would be worth the performance increase... *IF* there
is a noticeable performance increase.
The rule of thumb, in general is that a
I'm searching for some good CPU synthetic test. I've found a few, but
their last update where from ~1996, and don't know if they are the right
tools to test modern CPU chips.
Any suggestions?
Hard to tell without more data: what kinds of test do you want? What do
you want to measure and
I'd like to create a bridge between 2 WLAN cards. The first one is connected
to the Internet via wpa_supplicant, the second one should act as an AP. Both
cards work in promiscuous mode.
Never tried it myself, but, maybe you could look at hostapd package.
Last I heard, Linux's wifi code
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
Will there be any gain? :-?
I believe - as it has other technologies than i486 CPUs.
I think there's a lack of evidence that it will make
a significant difference.
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I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of
problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you
have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? (I know that my
MMV, but if I start playing with either testing or unstable, I don't
want to get into a problem/find
I could use x64 kernel with x32 system?
Yes.
How to use that?
Just aptitude install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64.
Such 32bit userland on top of a 64bit kernel used to suffer from
corner-case bugs (like wpa_supplicant or s2ram not working) when I first
tried it (like 5 years ago), but nowadays
I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I
have never wanted to manage init scripts. I always wonder. What
are people trying to do?
What is more complicated than this. If you want it then install it.
If you don't want it then remove or purge it. With those two
I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the hard
disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read
only. I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then
I found the CD-ROM is broken, it can not boot from the CD-ROM.
But can they talk to folks using SKYPE?
I talk to folks using Skype every day. I don't use Skype myself, I try
to convince them to switch to something else, but that doesn't prevent
me from talking to them.
Stefan ;-)
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I'm a long-time user of Debian, and also have an e-paper ebook reader.
It occurs to me that something like a Debian laptop with an e-ink screen
would be extremely useful, for, say, sitting on a sunny back porch in the
summer and programming -- a situation where the normal luminous screens
are
Anyone know the cure?
I see many people suggested UUIDs and other funny long names.
What I use instead: LVM. This way you get to name the disks and
partitions with meaningful names which only change when you decide to
change them.
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As I've said several times, it's UUID or LABEL. Period.
And then there's LVM. I recommend LVM as the solution to this problem
because contrary to the UUID the name can be meaningful, and contrary to
the LABEL, the LVM volume names don't depend on the kind of file-system
you use. Also those
The reviews I read said the same or similar, but an Aussie tech
magazine from 2007 said that after the standard installer starts,
Debian is installed as a single file on the Windows partition--no
partitioning needed.
That was not the case for me. I was offered to resize the ntfs
partition to
[35223.216654] usb 1-8: device descriptor read/8, error -110
[35226.942174] usb 1-8: device descriptor read/8, error -71
~
I have read it happens as a protective measure when its interfacing
circuitry notices that the USB cable does not provide enough power
Looks like the problem is in the
I don't care whether or not they are supported in
linux-firmware-nonfree; I want this to work using 100% free software.
I have linux-firmware-nonfree installed here on my desktop based on
a E350. It's not even for 3D (which I never use), but it was needed
just to get console output, IIRC.
I
The system in question is running from an SSD, which I assume changes your
assumptions quite a bit. With a traditional HDDs, the loss of power
causes a head crash, etc which does in turn lessen the life of the drive.
Actually, I fail to see why a power outage would have any negative
effect on
I'm using XFCE here, but the screen saver never kicks in.
And the screen lock doesn't either, even though when I go to the xfce
power manager I have the lock screen when going for suspend/hibernate
selected and the computer is set to sleep if inactive for one hour and
that it indeed suspends to
Does the screen lock when you run
$ xflock4
?
No, it just returns without doing anything.
What screen saver do you use?
Don't know. I just did aptitude install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
xfce4-power-manager and then used XFCE session in GDM.
xfce4-power-manager is installed and running.
Not
I am currently trying to get a device with an Intel GMA 500 graphics chip to
run with Debian Wheezy. However, I don't seem to be able to get anything
other than a standard VGA console out of the hardware.
With a stock Debian kernel and an empty xorg.conf file, it should just
work (it does for
IIRC, Xfce normally uses xscreensaver, which needs to have its daemon
running. What does pgrep xscreensaver produce? You can (re)start the
daemon from the screensaver settings window (File Restart Daemon).
Aha! I installed xscreensaver, went to settings where it directly
asked me to
I am currently trying to get a device with an Intel GMA 500 graphics
chip to run with Debian Wheezy. However, I don't seem to be able to
get anything other than a standard VGA console out of the hardware.
With a stock Debian kernel and an empty xorg.conf file, it should just
work (it does for
The rule of thumb, in general is that a speed increase smaller than
about 30% goes unnoticed.
That 30% sounds about right, but then too I suppose it would also depend
upon how closely the speed is being examined and how perceptually prominent
the executable is and other factors.
Of course.
LMGTFY I understand and agree with, but why the URL shortening? You only
saved...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=viber
... 2 characters and you also hit innocent bystanders like me :p
BTW, LMGTFY was OK for the What's viber? part, but for the Is
it libre? it's a bit trickier since proprietary software
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