Re: [DNG] Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-21 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 20:01:06 +1100 Tom wrote among other things: |One thing that I couldn’t find in the Debian Bullseye release notes |is that the Nvidia 340xx legacy driver is no longer present in |Debian Bullseye/Devuan Chimaera. | |For anyone with older hardware only supported by the 340xx driv

Re: [DNG] Warning about Wicd in Chimaera

2021-10-15 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
>But I also found a wicd replacement, just in case I want to reconfigure wlan0 >one day. It's a Perl script called Ceni and it's available as a package in >Chimaera. It's the default on Michael's Devuan. It works great! __ Lawrence De Coste Cell/Text/Signal: +1 401-275-3712 __

Re: [DNG] CORRECTION: Sneak peak at runit presentation materials

2021-07-08 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 08:06:56 -0500 o1bigtenor wrote among other things: ... |See the previous email - - - - the presentation was made available |even before it 'aired'. | |Regards NOT so as of now: http://troubleshooters.com/runit only yields http://troubleshooters.com/linux/presentations/golu

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-09 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 09:50:53 -0500 Steve Litt wrote among other things: |Likewise, when I used Ubuntu, I wanted to get rid of Plymouth, which |in my opinion is eye-candy for Windows Weenies. I tried and failed |with package-manager-fu. I tried and failed with several other |approaches. Finally I ju

Re: [DNG] file managers

2020-11-21 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
Good afternoon Tito via Dng, On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:55:17 -0800 Tito via Dng wrote among other things: |I do run a little file manager -- xfe. Lightweight. Make things so |much easier. I'd dread having to use the commandline instead. :) |Comes with text editor, image viewer and package manager

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-16 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:49:19 +0200 Tito via Dng wrote among other things: |we should team up with other distributions that are no-systemd, |e.g pclinuxos (but there are others debian based) which have resolved |this problems already having various flavors of full-fledged DEs. antiX has a great

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of laptop have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
Good morning terryc, On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:56:07 +1000 terryc wrote among other things: |This is a hardware question. |Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed |devuan onto? |How difficult was it? | |Thank You In Advance. I wasn't going to suggest it because I beli

Re: [DNG] (forw) Re: Fw: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-14 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
-Original Message- From: Steve Litt To: dng@lists.dyne.org Sent: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [DNG] (forw) Re: Fw: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd And people wonder why I despise the Debian project. === Not me. Don't forget Obarun & S6. The latest JWM

Re: [DNG] Devuan as a rescue CD?

2019-10-27 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
That was supposed to say "systemd". No thanks to spell correction. -- Lawrence De Coste Cell/Txt/Signal: +1 (401)275-3712 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Devuan as a rescue CD?

2019-10-27 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
-- Lawrence De Coste Cell/Txt/Signal: +1 (401)275-3712 -Original Message- From: Steve Litt To: dng@lists.dyne.org Sent: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan as a rescue CD? On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:41:36 -0400 fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 10/26/19 5:06 PM, Steve Litt

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-23 Thread Larry De Coste via Dng
|fsmithred wrote among other things: |" I don't know if it operates like that in alternate realities, and i think you might be in one." Just the way I think of chroot!! __ Lawrence De Coste Cell/Text/Signal/Telegram: +1 401-275-3712 ___ Dng mailin