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#1 Re: Off-topic » Ken Thompson and Linux » Today 00:43:19
#3 Re: Off-topic » [SOLVED] Question, about immutable distros » 2025-12-08 23:06:20
An immutable Linux distribution has its core system locked as read-only.
Strictly speaking that's not the same as ext2+ immutable files. FreeBSD uses immutable system files extensively.
Both Devuan and Debian have had the option to install read only root FS for many years now. That's my recommended setup in fact.
#4 Re: Freedom Hacks » Switching to GTK2 from GTK3 on Post-Beowulf Devuan Releases » 2025-12-03 20:32:13
Has anyone managed to build spacefm
https://codeberg.org/Matlib/SpaceFM/src/branch/next
branch next
Download links are under the ellipsis button on the right side.
./configure --with-gtk2 --prefix=/usr/local/spacefm --disable-video-thumbnails --sysconfdir=/usr/local/spacefm/etc
make
make installVideo thumbnails need some extra libs. I disabled because I don't need that.
Also GIMP 2.10:
https://codeberg.org/Matlib/gimp2
Launch autogen.sh and follow instructions. I built it agains latest GEGL, but the one from packages should be fine too.
#5 Re: Other Issues » amd64-microcode update for transient scheduler attacks » 2025-11-28 17:55:43
What's the point of shipping those microcode packages if the packagers themselves do not believe they're safe to apply? And because it's disabled by default, 99.several nines % of users who never look at the /etc/modprobe.d directory don't even know this package does nothing.
Is there a way to download a microcode directly from CPU manufacturer? Duck.ai sais no. There is a github repo with collection of firmwares.
#6 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Devuan Daedalus 32-bit to Excalibur » 2025-11-15 18:16:29
I've upgraded one of my VPSes to the new stable, and I'm going to upgrade the other one too. Kernels are still available in the oldstable repository. If they stop releasing kernels I'm going to compile them myself like I used to do for my first 15 years with Linux distributions. Back then stock kernels used to be a disaster.
Other than that everything else seems to work.
The reality is a i686 system uses a lot less memory for some reason.
#7 Re: Other Issues » Stardict - possibly problematic application? » 2025-08-11 16:45:12
Looks like it's not the first time this has been reported.
2009: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=534731
2015: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=806960
Translated sentence is send even if local dictionary of local central European language is used and even if "Enable Network dictionaries" in setting is disabled.
#8 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] uncomplete SSH disconnect on reboot » 2024-08-14 22:10:38
Actually it's Enter ~ ., although Enter is usually the last key pressed.
If the network gets deconfigured for some reason (for example dhcpcd killed) before sshd is terminated, then the system has no chance to properly close the connection.
AIX has a nice feature that redirects console output to the ssh session that initiated shutdown, so you can see rc messages when the system is shutting down.
#9 Re: Off-topic » The Crappiness of Modern Laptops » 2024-08-07 23:19:15
I've got HP Dev One at work, and I'm pretty happy with it. It has a trackpoint along with touchpad. There are tiny annoyances like the power button right above backspace 
I regret not buying one for myself when they were still available.
#10 Re: Off-topic » Secure Boot? Yes, we've heard of it ... » 2024-08-07 23:06:06
Good laptops allow uploading your own key. In theory It allows using TPM to decrypt volumes, so that it doesn't ask for password on boot. But you need to trust laptop's BIOS (I wouldn't), and this is susceptible to cold boot attacks.
Apart from being compromised, the default PKE needs to be used with boot loader called “shim”, and it has had vulnerabilities too.
#11 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » A devuan wiki page on virt-manager » 2024-03-19 19:43:55
I also use command line and spicy to connect to the console.
To set up a network bridge (all commands assume that the user executing qemu belongs to group kvm and VMs' IP numbers start with 192.168.128.2):
set up qemu-bridge-helper (has to be done once after upgrade):
chgrp kvm /usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper chmod 554 /usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper setcap CAP_NET_ADMIN,CAP_NET_RAW,CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE=ep /usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helperenable bridge at boot:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ip link add name brvm type bridge ip addr add 192.168.128.1/24 dev brvm ip link set up brvm iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.128.0/24 -o eth+ -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.128.0/24 -o wlan+ -j MASQUERADEpass this parameter when launching qemu:
-netdev tap,id=eth,br=brvm,helper=/usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper
It is also possible to attach dhcpd and/or radvd to brvm for automatic address space management. By changing those ip commands above you may bridge brvm with workstation's ethernet interface and allow attaching VMs directly to the LAN.
#12 Re: Installation » Install ZFS » 2022-10-31 22:37:41
apulse doesn't always work unfortunately. It causes Firefox to freeze on my laptop.
One very bad thing about DKMS is that it launches all build commands as root. After some decades they finally moved wget to _apt, so maybe module builder will also get its own user _dkms by the end of 2030's.
#13 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » How disable apparmor? » 2022-10-31 22:23:35
Nothing. If you don't use it though it is safe to remove it.
Apparmor is on linux-image's recommended list, and that's why it may get selected automatically whenever a new kernel appears.
#14 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » amixer-gtk » 2022-09-11 13:54:24
This app obviously lacks some features like sound device selection. However it's pretty fine for a 0.1 release 👍
* Ungoogled Chromium - Works with ALSA
Googled Chrome also works with ALSA. It's just Firefox developers who decided to relegate their browser back to the silent fim era.
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