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dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:17:55 +0000

(wat a calamitY)
(click X on right if no account)

troubled of linux behaviour (or is it devuan=?)

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:32:40 +0000

@chris2be8 ,
if you are interested, created a post over in the apposite forum ~~to hihglight the issue~~,
to some degree, running in background is "desired" behaviour for the "client" since this program , when installed via "deb" is running in background after startup even before login-user, so i might have created a whole lot of noise for little bit noghting.

https://forum.foldingathome.org/viewtop … 77#p374677

old adagios still holdeth true:
those loudesth shoutesth, seldom the brightesth.

Whats growing in your Garden? GNU/Gardening.

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:35:40 +0000

Don't fear the reaper! (you should be wary of this one though, it will mess you up bad)

yet another, xorg yet again, but...

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:25:38 +0000

@greenjeans ouch...

HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat

dummy@example.com (Kristof12) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:10:29 +0000

Zoitechat on stable backports, then noice

[SOLVED] Steam finally broke

dummy@example.com (MoonDog) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:28:14 +0000

PEBKAC!!!

So i fixed it, after reading this thread.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … sues/11921

What could possibly cause the two steam components from not being able to communicate with each other.

So I was trying to set the system so eth0 wasn't enabled at boot until a script in rc.local brought it up at the end (after doing some stuff to the network connection and I forgot I did it). So I spent an hour trying to make this work yesterday. I finally used the networking script in init.d, without even considering that if I told it not to setup networking that it would kill lo as well. So no loopback enabled. eth0 came up on the script like intended, but I never enabled localhost. So it appears steam and steamwebhelper communicate together over localhost and since there was no localhost, it crapped out.

So I typed "ifup lo" and fired up steam and it works, no errors.

You live to learn.

Debian looking to switch to the non-GNU Rust based uutils

dummy@example.com (blackhole) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:41:42 +0000

Anyone capable of thinking for themselves dismisses Lunduke's sensationalist clickbait crap...

[SOLVED] Why hasn't sysvinit been abandoned yet?

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:42:08 +0000

Awww . . . thanks greenjeans and Altoid but I'm not sure for what because I gave up reading steve-v's abusive, fantasy-filled tirades a long time ago. I am so removed from the low-life "culture" in which he swims that the insults he churns out would likely go right over my head. I want to associate with the best of the best not the dregs of our devolving species.

Proposing a a11y and aging friendly user init.

dummy@example.com (stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn) — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:09:09 +0000

concur with @steve_v regarding installers.

is it just me or does anyone else get hot under the collar when installers refuse to install if the hardware is airgapped/offline/etc?

_just_

_NO_

_wtf_

...ahem...cough...sigh...

The story of Mel

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:59:06 +0000

Hello:

stargate-sg1 wrote:

... the "further reading" sub-section contains an image containing Mel Kaye.

Nice find!

Note that the list of students (seated at the table) in the photo includes a spook suit student from the NSA.

Best,

curated pico-distributions (aka curated workflows)

dummy@example.com (chomwitt) — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:13:19 +0000

I wonder if a PPA is one implemanation of my general idea.

So :

a simple curated list of Devuan package names
a PPA
arch package groups @
debian blends
installer current workflow suggestion. Desktop/WM
virtual packages
msys2 @ resembles a pico-distro inside ms windows transfusing not only workflows but a unix style of programming inside windows!! Also msys2 contains arch groups @

I think my proposal is close to an extension of the virtual package idea. It seems more easily to implement. And it wont break a Devuan installation.

But i dont think of my pico-wf-distros as mere collection like arch groups of similar package funtionaliy.

Theoretically you could have a cool webpage where you can create - share - edit - use a pico-distro (curated wf) and the site would validate it and add the necessery dependencies. Then download it and run in from apt. You could even bind it to current popular functionality extending it to accomodate popular pico-distros.

word is that flatpak 2.0 WILL depend on systemd

dummy@example.com (soumya65536) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:31:34 +0000

Long live source code compilation

oxidising our Freedom

dummy@example.com (EDX-0) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:52:07 +0000

not rushing to witch hunt? where is the fun in that?

low end gaming on linux

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:26:15 +0000

But who is the infant? That is the question . . .

About devuan users forum

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:14:20 +0000

@zapper . . . Because as you observed, they are narcissists and think they are soooo clever?