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#1 Re: DIY » Lowest memory footprint obtained. » 2024-03-30 06:21:55
So the question is, who here has a Ryxen 7 5800x3D and can you run linux solely within the 98MB on chip cache?
#2 Re: News & Announcements » X.Org Security Advisory: Security issue in the X server » 2023-04-16 14:43:44
Well, I got stuck this time, no tty's and a non-responsive keys and screen.
Why do I have no tty's?
Even now after a re-config to get the gui again and still no tty's. ona day at a time...
Please post a copy of your
/etc/inittab ?
#3 Re: Devuan Derivatives » An example of how Trinity Desktop Env (TDE) can look on Devuan ASCII » 2023-02-28 19:13:35
The easiest way to settle this is to put Trinity DE devuan on a VM and give the good folk permission to seek exploits, it'll be fun!
#4 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Who has the better Wayland support? Mate or KDE Plasma? » 2023-02-20 09:46:40
Looking at RBOS, kde plasma seems more complete than mate
#5 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2023-02-18 09:56:04
Lucy Blue
Lexie Carroll
Tamzene
#6 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Unity desktop environment » 2023-02-04 19:03:15
I'd like to see this, trip down ubuntu memory lane
#7 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » shut down Daedalus: warning: alsactl store -e HOME= ... » 2023-01-30 19:51:41
Devuan has something missing in the alsa department, there's a value not saved in mate-media : Sound Preferences -> Hardware -> Profile, not persisting over reboot.
#8 Re: Devuan » finit: new init system option for Devuan daedalus » 2023-01-22 21:12:48
When Bookworm is stable and finit is finished, I'll stick it on some eee pc and let you know if it's noticeably faster.
#9 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] How to increase the SWAP partition » 2023-01-10 21:45:39
That's a myth about needing 2x ram of swap.
On the asus eee pc 701 with 493MiB of ram, It can hibernate comfortably* in 300MB of swap. Assuming you close your apps first 
*about half the time, because voodoo
#10 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2023-01-04 14:42:39
.deb files are just archives, so anyone who wants to inspect the contents can just uncompress them and view the files
forgive me shunning scripting etc, but as an old time software tester, I like my boxes unopened
#11 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2023-01-03 16:27:46
Yay! Looks much better in minty dark and green
Any chance of using checkinstall to create a .deb file install?
#12 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] What's the minimum disk space does the most minimalist setup take? » 2023-01-03 16:20:14
I assume it has a usb port? If so then you can have a small boot partition on the first disk, large partition the rest of it, and add another disk or two, put them in raid for a much more useful nearly 2 or 3 GB
Raid0 is on my asus eee pc 2G surfs.
#13 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-30 09:02:14
Please also add:
http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/live/shoutcast/mp3/eieuk.pls
and also selectukradio stream, thanks 
#14 Re: Installation » What is the point of not enabling hot plug of ethernet devices? » 2022-12-30 04:42:52
Is it still the case that you can complete a netinstall without internet? You won't have extra software and your sources will need attention but it will work and you can add software later.
#15 Re: Installation » How many keyrings? » 2022-09-27 06:41:04
From what I can see from installing debian on a day to day laptop and over a dozen eee pc;
Gnome keyring optionally protects you from lazy login security risk on regular laptop.
On the eee pc, there is no browser to secure, having only 3.5GB ssd and half a gig of ram, the savings in space and resources are worth having and there appears to be no advantage in using gnome-keyring.
On a modern desktop or laptop, the eee pc argument is irrelevant.
If gnome-keyring bothers you, remove it but stay safe. If if doesn't bother you, just leave it.
#16 Re: Installation » How many keyrings? » 2022-09-26 13:40:22
I find gnome-keyring useful. Logging in automatically to desktop, gnome-keyring asks for login password when launching google-chrome. I like this because potential thieves can enjoy my music and video collection but not my online stuff, hopefully?
#17 Re: News & Announcements » PeppermintOS now Debian base & soon Devuan based » 2022-09-25 18:11:42
Checking out peppermint devuan on the asus eee pc 900 right now, 32 bit.
The multimedia repo wasn't a problem, I have deadbeef, mint-artwork, and mintmenu with mate desktop.
THERE IS STILL A BUG with devuan's implementation of mate-media - the hardware profile in sound preferences is not persisting.
This works under debian, and also works under a debian system switched to devuan base.
ps, using mintmenu because mate-menu wasnt showing applications!
#18 Re: News & Announcements » [SOLVED] invalid: EXPKEYSIG BB23C00C61FC752C Devuan Repository » 2022-09-06 16:58:32
I am not really qualified to answer this question but imagine it would require something like:
1. Locate all Devuan keys and expiration dates.
2. Set up auto notifications to developers well in advance of expiration dates.
3. Actually remember to do it (or learn how to do it yourself).
Back in March, decided to upgrade machine 2 to ssd, so first upgraded spare machine 1 to small ssd and started using machine 1, so machine 2 could be worked on.
Then there was an emergency, and all projects had to be boxed and shelved.
Last week the emergency finished, then this morning machine 1 had an unbooting grub.
So, back on machine 2, which wouldn't boot, but got it booting by installing lmde5 in a spare partition. 6 month old devuan beowulf booted off the new grub. Apt update resulted in EXPKEYSIG BB23C00C61FC752C Devuan Repository errors.
For a moment, I actually thought about just running it without updates until I got debian working again.
Decided against that, searched these lists. What luck, the keys expired just two days before I needed them!
The real risk here, is users not promptly applying security updates, and I was almost one of them.
#19 Re: News & Announcements » [SOLVED] invalid: EXPKEYSIG BB23C00C61FC752C Devuan Repository » 2022-09-06 15:57:58
What's the procedure for this monitoring? Can anybody do it, or does it require expertise of some kind?
#20 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Getting "Lock Version" in Synaptic to work » 2022-02-24 09:42:36
apt-mark hold <package>
command line apt ignores synaptic locking.
#21 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Linux Mint Devuan Edition? » 2022-02-24 05:12:08
Zapper, based off ubuntu is less scary and more welcoming than based off debian.
Ubuntu is like windows. Not better, but well-known and perceived as safer.
#22 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Linux Mint Devuan Edition? » 2022-02-20 19:45:51
LMDE 5 Elsie repos are active, it's in testing, elsie + chimaera is very nice. Starting from Cindy LMDE3 base, switched to ascii base, upgraded via debbie and beowulf, voila Elsaera!
apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -y --download only && apt upgrade -yis a handy command when upgrading if you have frequent dropouts,
If there ever was a devuan mint, mintupgrade would need to retry it's downloads a few times.
#23 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] apt autoremove wants to remove 243 packages » 2022-02-13 18:17:08
You can fix this easily in synaptic.
Just select all listed as auto-removable and mark them as 'manual' via the menu.
Uninstalling thunar removed your metapackage
#24 Re: Freedom Hacks » Missing init scripts and how to provide them » 2022-02-13 18:09:44
Is there some way to reinstate the missing alsa restore and save sound card state in devuan?
#25 Re: Installation » Changing UUID of /root? » 2022-02-02 10:12:29
Each disk has a unique UUID, you will have to find the new disks UUID first, & then add it to fstab of that disk, then it should boot.
It doesn't boot. Grub complains it can't find the old uuid.
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