Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

2018-03-29 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 12:33 Russell via talk, wrote: > > I think I just read that Windows 10 now has a virtual linux console. > Yup. I just installed Debian 9 under Windows 10 today. It doesn't feel like a VM, but it's a decidedly odd experience running 'apt' on a Windows

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

2018-03-29 Thread James Knott via talk
On 03/29/2018 11:17 AM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I haven't got my head around the spec enough to know: does the fact > that it's USB-C guarantee that it can deliver 20v and lots'o-watts to > accessories? What about accepting that voltage from a charger? I'd > bet that Asus hasn't bothered to

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

2018-03-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:17:58AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I grabbed Fedora's very latest kernel this morning > (4.15.12-301.fc27.x86_64) given Russell's point that there's been a lot of > new feautures related to this. After a reboot I ran 'lspci' - I have > USB3.0, not 3.1. This is

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

2018-03-29 Thread Giles Orr via talk
On 24 March 2018 at 19:07, Russell wrote: > On March 24, 2018 9:53:59 AM EDT, Russell Reiter > wrote: > >On 24 March 2018 at 08:08, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > >> On 23 March 2018 at 20:01, Scott Sullivan via talk >

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

2018-03-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:35:59PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > My Sun 3/60 has 24 slots. But the largest memory module that it will > accept is 1MiB (note: not 1GiB). So more isn't always better :-) > > As memory systems get faster, fan-out and signal path length matter > more.

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

2018-03-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:59:44PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its over > 6 years old) > has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have that many. > (Just one point for where newer isn't always 'better' (whatever

Re: [GTALUG] OT: UEFI and Windows mysteries [was: New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe]

2018-03-29 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 16:53 Bob Jonkman via talk, wrote: > > I welcome further off-topic insights, although the list moderators may > not be so tolerant. > I think "hardware that refuses to run Linux" is pretty on-topic. The threat of the locked-out BIOS* is still with us. Hugh

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPickerRecipe;

2018-03-29 Thread Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk
Many thanks to so many responders impossible to mention all individually !! Have duly noted around a half-dozen configuration items of the build recipe, for review and no doubt at least some already for revision. All postings greatly appreciated ... Steve --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

2018-03-29 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its > over > | 6 years old) > | has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have