Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-17 Thread terryc
On Tue, 18 May 2021 02:18:02 +1000 onefang wrote: > On 2021-05-17 23:31:12, terryc wrote: > > I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub > > config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. > > > > In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you > >

Re: [DNG] routing tables.

2021-05-17 Thread Hector Gonzalez Jaime via Dng
On 5/17/21 1:35 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have found several authoritative-looking web pages on instructions to display and edit the routing tables. But none of them explains what the routing tabe entries *mean*. The routing table entries show the way your host can find other networks,

Re: [DNG] routing tables.

2021-05-17 Thread terryc
On Mon, 17 May 2021 14:35:41 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > I now have a new VDSL connexion now, which is supposed to go at > 25Mbits/sec downstream and 10 Mbits/sec upstream. Bell has been here > and has checked that it is working, using their modem. > > Now I'd like to get it to actually work,

Re: [DNG] Collaboration between distros [WAS: FSF and human rights]

2021-05-17 Thread Alexis PM via Dng
>> Standardize the package format of the released versions of each free >> software project would be a total and desirable revolution. The burden >> of offering the available software would shift to software developers >> rather than distributions. > > I disagree. The rich variety of distros

Re: [DNG] routing tables.

2021-05-17 Thread Antony Stone
On Monday 17 May 2021 at 20:35:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The first step is to use a browser to connect to http://192.168.1.1 The second step (in IP terms) is to connect *from* an address that 192.168.1.1 can reply to. > Now that means I have to configure my routing tables so that packets to >

Re: [DNG] Collaboration between distros [WAS: FSF and human rights]

2021-05-17 Thread Alexis PM via Dng
There is also PcLinuxOS even if rpm based but they have the full stack systemd free and could be a source of code for devuan as they already solved somehow most of the problems. Systemd free distros should pool their efforts to avoid duplication and to gain critical mass.

[DNG] routing tables.

2021-05-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
I now have a new VDSL connexion now, which is supposed to go at 25Mbits/sec downstream and 10 Mbits/sec upstream. Bell has been here and has checked that it is working, using their modem. Now I'd like to get it to actually work, which means that *my* modem has to be able to talk VDSL. It turns

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-17 Thread onefang
On 2021-05-17 23:31:12, terryc wrote: > I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub > config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. > > In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you > loaded/updated the linux-image files. But the current system >

[DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-17 Thread terryc
I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you loaded/updated the linux-image files. But the current system automatically trims it to just two, with normal and

Re: [DNG] End of free open source software?

2021-05-17 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
On Sat 15/May/2021 15:50:12 +0200 spiralofhope wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2021 14:27:15 +0200 "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" wrote: On 09.05.21 08:33, tito via Dng wrote: So the first question that arises is: how could open source and free software projects ensure protection from damage up to