Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

Some suggestions for minor updates to quick start translations. There is a change in devuan that means it's no longer necessary to do "apt-get install sysvinit core" anymore, also "apt-get install basefiles" is not necessary. As mentioned before, adding the user to the disk group is not

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:25:53 + Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Emiliano Marini writes: > > Word from Eric Hameleers, one of the main Slackware maintainers (AKA > > alienbob): > > > >> "...you have to have PA installed because

[DNG] Jack or Pulse

On 18/01/16 05:23, Steve Litt wrote: In all fairness, I've found few softwares as difficult to install and get right as Jack. In fact, of the five times I've tried to install it on various distros, I've succeeded zero times. Jack is extremely flexible, and essential if you want what it does.

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

On 18/01/16 02:23, Steve Litt wrote: In all fairness, I've found few softwares as difficult to install and get right as Jack. In fact, of the five times I've tried to install it on various distros, I've succeeded zero times. So I'd settle for Pulse (or ALSA or OSS) over Jack simply because I

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

On 18/01/16 14:11, Brad Campbell wrote: > On 18/01/16 02:23, Steve Litt wrote: > >> In all fairness, I've found few softwares as difficult to install and >> get right as Jack. In fact, of the five times I've tried to install it >> on various distros, I've succeeded zero times. >> >> So I'd settle

Re: [DNG] Upgrading a MIPSel Jessie to Devuan

> "David" == David Kuehling writes: > Hi, can I perform an "upgrade" from Debian Jessie to Devuan, as > described on devuan.org, on a system running MIPSel architecture > Debian? Replying to myself, just for the mail archives: after some chatting on #debian-fork it looks

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

On 18/01/16 12:34, Daniel Reurich wrote: On 18/01/16 14:11, Brad Campbell wrote: On 18/01/16 02:23, Steve Litt wrote: In all fairness, I've found few softwares as difficult to install and get right as Jack. In fact, of the five times I've tried to install it on various distros, I've succeeded

Re: [DNG] Does dunst require dbus?

On 17/01/16 08:08, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 15:32:11 -0500 Mitt Green wrote: Steve Litt wrote: I'm not for a moment suggesting Devuan should remove Debian's libdbus dependency. We have bigger fish to fry. $ apt-cache rdepends libdbus-1-3 libdbus-1-3

Re: [DNG] Upgrading a MIPSel Jessie to Devuan

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:02:16AM +0100, David Kuehling wrote: > Especially on Mips one may have to work with older or non-official > kernels, which used to be no problem with Debian, until Systemd came > around. Here [1] it says systemd needs Linux > 3.7: I only have <= 3.5 > on my Mips

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

Emiliano Marini writes: > Word from Eric Hameleers, one of the main Slackware maintainers (AKA > alienbob): > >> "...you have to have PA installed because applications are now linking >> against it. What you can still do is configure PA to be an input channel >> for

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

Pulse's long delays are a problem for musicians. If you want to coordinate two sound sources accurately, those delays are a nuisance. But that is something musicians do, not consumers. Consumers do not really care how many thousandths of a second the sound is delayed on its way to the

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

Arnt Gulbrandsen writes: > Pulse's long delays are a problem for musicians. If you want to > coordinate two sound sources accurately, those delays are a > nuisance. But that is something musicians do, not consumers. > Consumers do not really care how many thousandths of

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

* On 2016 17 Jan 07:21 -0600, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > A 'consumer' is - by definition - an entirely passive entity, somewhat > like a refuse bin, who is supposed to swallow whatever is to be > put into him by people who control 'production'. I always had in mind one of those pedal operated