Quoting Clarke Sideroad via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org):
> I think the purpose was to avoid tainting the initial installation
> with proprietary firmware, but not have the lack of it it ruin the
> party.
Proprietary firmware files divide broadly into two categories:
1. Copyright owner granted suffi
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com):
> Ubuntu installs as easily as Windows' first boot nonsense. Devuan isn't
> far behind, on most hardware.
Interesting point about that, which I'll get to, near the end.
> What Eric objected to, and I agreed, was lack of proper handling of
> proprie
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 11:29:29AM +, Simon Hobson wrote:
> In part, Linux adoption is held back by it's perceived difficulty - such
> as having to go and find drivers for your hardware.
Well, about that... Not so long ago I helped a relative by installing
Redmontware. It was a long, arduous
On 2018-12-20 6:00 p.m., Steve Litt wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:07:11 -0800
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk):
In part, Linux adoption is held back by its perceived
difficulty
Just a brief comment about this in passing, as this is an antique
debate point a
Le 20/12/2018 à 23:50, Steve Litt a écrit :
Didier Kryn wrote:
What's the purpose of kexec ? I see one main: using a Linux
session as the bootloader, a bootloader more heavily customizable
than Grub. Additionally it saves a few seconds. Are there any other ?
Didier
Wow. Ar
On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:07:11 -0800
Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk):
>
> > In part, Linux adoption is held back by its perceived
> > difficulty
>
> Just a brief comment about this in passing, as this is an antique
> debate point ages ago stomped into the gr
On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:38:01 +0100
Didier Kryn wrote:
> What's the purpose of kexec ? I see one main: using a Linux
> session as the bootloader, a bootloader more heavily customizable
> than Grub. Additionally it saves a few seconds. Are there any other ?
>
> Didier
Wow. Are you
Rick Moen wrote:
>> In part, Linux adoption is held back by its perceived difficulty
>
> Just a brief comment about this in passing, as this is an antique debate
> point ages ago stomped into the ground on comp.os.*.advocacy and other
> places: An operating system one must install (not pre
Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk):
> In part, Linux adoption is held back by its perceived difficulty
Just a brief comment about this in passing, as this is an antique debate
point ages ago stomped into the ground on comp.os.*.advocacy and other
places: An operating system one mus
On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:09:27 -0600, lpb+dev...@kandl.houston.tx.us
wrote in message
<7cc26988-7303-e0c5-99f4-88c7fa678...@kandl.houston.tx.us>:
> On 12/20/18 8:40 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:35:45 -0600, lpb+dev...@kandl.houston.tx.us
> > wrote in message
> > :
> >
> >> I
Le 20/12/2018 à 16:22, Adam Borowski a écrit :
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 03:38:01PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
What's the purpose of kexec ? I see one main: using a Linux session as
the bootloader, a bootloader more heavily customizable than Grub.
Additionally it saves a few seconds. Are ther
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 03:38:01PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 20/12/2018 à 15:32, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:59:35 +1100, Ralph wrote in message
> > :
> >
> > > There is this notion of "kexec boot"; I've never tried it, but it's
> > > documentation claims "kexec is a s
On 12/20/18 8:40 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:35:45 -0600, lpb+dev...@kandl.houston.tx.us
> wrote in message
> :
>
>> I'm all of a sudden having trouble using the .onion addresses. They've
>> worked fine for me for months. I'm getting "could not connect to
>> devuanfwojg73k6r
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:35:45 -0600, lpb+dev...@kandl.houston.tx.us
wrote in message
:
> I'm all of a sudden having trouble using the .onion addresses. They've
> worked fine for me for months. I'm getting "could not connect to
> devuanfwojg73k6r.onion (0.0.0.0:0) due to: Host unreachable (6)"
>
>
Le 20/12/2018 à 15:32, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:59:35 +1100, Ralph wrote in message
:
There is this notion of "kexec boot"; I've never tried it, but it's
documentation claims "kexec is a system call that enables you to
load and boot into another kernel from the currently
On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:59:35 +1100, Ralph wrote in message
:
> There is this notion of "kexec boot"; I've never tried it, but it's
> documentation claims "kexec is a system call that enables you to
> load and boot into another kernel from the currently running kernel."
>
> Maybe it comes with
Le 20/12/2018 à 15:26, Didier Kryn a écrit :
Le 19/12/2018 à 19:02, Pontus Goffe a écrit :
On 2018-12-19 18:23, Didier Kryn wrote:
Seems it can only work for one user because now it doesn't work
for me any more (~:
I got your patch to work nicely but only if I did not use "auto ethx"
Le 19/12/2018 à 19:02, Pontus Goffe a écrit :
On 2018-12-19 18:23, Didier Kryn wrote:
Seems it can only work for one user because now it doesn't work
for me any more (~:
I got your patch to work nicely but only if I did not use "auto ethx"
in /etc/network/interfaces.
I use only "allow
Rick Moen wrote:
>> I agree. The more GNU/Linux blows off prospective users by making them
>> jump through hoops, the more Linux becomes a niche. The nichier Linux
>> becomes, the more the hardware manufacturers ignore it. Let GNU/Linux
>> get up to 25% on the desktop, and the manufacturers will
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