Re: [DNG] ..tenacity replaces Audacity like Devuan replaces Debian? Tenacity ditches spyware.

2021-08-22 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2021 Mon, 23 Aug 02:33:36 +0200 Arnt Karlsen scripsit: > [...] > ..thanks to Tim for pushing me to investigate that story, Jim did > indeed say that, initially. And wise people update as they learn > more... > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-edito

Re: [DNG] ..tenacity replaces Audacity like Devuan replaces Debian? Tenacity ditches spyware.

2021-08-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 03:34:46 -0700, spiralofh...@spiralofhope.com wrote in message <20210709033446.7...@spiralofhope.com>: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 07:09:18 +0200 > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..tenacity replaces Audacity like Devuan replaces Debian? Tenacity > > ditches spyware: FLOSS Audacity Fo

Re: [DNG] Displaying adequately sized UTF8 characters in a terminal

2021-08-22 Thread g4sra via Dng
<--snip--> If you wish to play around (view) what the fonts you have installed actually look like, 'apt-get install x11-utils' will provide you with 'xfontsel' which is mouse driven. It also indicates fonts missing from the system that it knows about as 'greyed out' in the menu selection, so yo

Re: [DNG] Displaying adequately sized UTF8 characters in a terminal. SOLVED

2021-08-22 Thread dvalin
  On 22.08.21 05:33, . wrote:   > This link had some good info:   >   > https://askubuntu.com/questions/161652/how-to-change-the-default-font-size-of-xterm   >   >   > I set up a .Xresources file and used "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources" to   > activate it.  Here's my .Xresources file:   >   > > xter

Re: [DNG] Displaying adequately sized UTF8 characters in a terminal

2021-08-22 Thread dvalin
On 22.08.21 10:45, al3xu5 wrote:   > Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:48:15 +0930 - dva...@internode.on.net:   >   > I have the `fonts-dejavu` package installed (not ttf-dejavu) with a   > very large Unicode character set; then running:   Looks like I have that one:   $ dpkg -l fonts-dejavu   Desired=Unknow

Re: [DNG] Cannot install on W10 laptop (was: Re: Reinstalling unbootable laptop...) [SOLVED]

2021-08-22 Thread al3xu5
> > Using beowulf netinstaller (3.1.1), it starts with a blocking error: > > > > ~~~ > > Loading Devuan beowulf installer in standard mode... > > > > error: invalid sector size 0 > > error: you need to load the kernel first. > > ~~~ -- Sun, 22 Aug 2021 10:15:26 +0200 - "Dr. Nikolau

Re: [DNG] Cannot install on W10 laptop (was: Re: Reinstalling unbootable laptop...)

2021-08-22 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 09:21:33 +0200 al3xu5 wrote: > Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:05:19 +0200 - al3xu5 : > ... > So now I'm trying to reinstall it with Devuan, but I can't. > > Using beowulf netinstaller (3.1.1), it starts with a blocking error: > > ~~~ > Loading Devuan beowulf installer in standard

Re: [DNG] Displaying adequately sized UTF8 characters in a terminal

2021-08-22 Thread al3xu5
Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:48:15 +0930 - dva...@internode.on.net: > After having trouble displaying apostrophe and hyphen in recent > posts  on several lists, I've found that it is not "xterm -u8" or > uxterm which  are intrinsically deficient, but rather it is my "-fn > 10x20" option which  is selecting

Re: [DNG] Cannot install on W10 laptop (was: Re: Reinstalling unbootable laptop...)

2021-08-22 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2021 Sun, 22 Aug 09:21:33 +0200 al3xu5 scripsit: > Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:05:19 +0200 - al3xu5 : > > > About one or two years ago I had installed Devuan on my brother's laptop. > > > > It is a Lenovo B50-10 (model 80QR), with a 64bit Intel N3540 CPU, 4GB > > DDR1600 RAM and a mechanical

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-08-22 Thread aitor
Hi Alessandro, On 15/8/21 18:08, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: I guess we all ended up developing something similar. My take: http://www.tana.it/svn/zdkimfilter/trunk/src/cstring.h http://www.tana.it/svn/zdkimfilter/trunk/src/cstring.c It's harsh as it assumes the caller _always_ checks retu

Re: [DNG] snetaid debs...

2021-08-22 Thread aitor
Hi, On 22/8/21 8:33, al3xu5 wrote: Hi all I am running Devuan Beowulf && LXDE, and I want to try snetaid && simple-netaid-cdk || simple-netaid-gtk... Thanks for your interest on simple-netaid. I have found some debs are at: http://packages.gnuinos.org/gnuinos/pool/main/s/ Please, can anyo

[DNG] Cannot install on W10 laptop (was: Re: Reinstalling unbootable laptop...)

2021-08-22 Thread al3xu5
Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:05:19 +0200 - al3xu5 : > About one or two years ago I had installed Devuan on my brother's laptop. > > It is a Lenovo B50-10 (model 80QR), with a 64bit Intel N3540 CPU, 4GB > DDR1600 RAM and a mechanical 500GB HDD (see: > https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/cr/en/products/laptops-and