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#1 Re: Off-topic » The Crappiness of Modern Laptops » 2024-12-17 07:42:28
To my experience it is a matter of build quality, exchangeability of parts and therefore of price. Thankfully I can afford buying quality notebooks (e.g. Tuxedo, MacBook Pro, HP ProBook) and usually use these for a long time (10 years and more). These models also go very well with Linux.
A Lenovo IdeaPad for about € 300 presumably won't last that long.
#2 Re: Installation » Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo » 2024-12-05 00:26:38
A few weeks ago I installed Devuan 5 i386 by using the netinstall iso on a system consisting of an AsRock K7VT4A Pro motherboard built 2005 with an Athlon XP 3000+ processor and 2 GB of RAM.
The system performs stable and is definitely usuable (using office programs, playing back music, digitizing movie DVDs, recording MIDI and audio, ...). Newly booted, it uses 392 MB of RAM. Web browsing although is a bit slow, opening more than one tab is not advisable. Watching DVD movies is not possible (at least with the momentarily used video card Radeon 9200).
As already written, 512 MB of RAM is tough.
#3 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox 128.3.1esr *not* clearing history on closing » 2024-11-14 08:16:09
One possible solution is to use "bleachbit" to clean caches, cookies, ...
Using bleachbit I never had problems with "destroying my system" by accidentally deleting files, but I make backups and am mindful when using this software :-)
#4 Re: Off-topic » A Libreoffice Writer ODT that Crashes the Devuan Desktop » 2024-11-06 19:23:57
Hi alexkemp!
I download LO 7.6.7.2 from here:
https://downloadarchive.documentfoundat … 6.7.2/deb/
Decide if you need x86 or x64 (the latest working version for x86 is 6.2.8.2).
You need the main package and the language file, maybe you also like the help file.
First unpack the main package to your home folder.
In a terminal enter:
cd Libre*
cd DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
delete the folder Libre... (because the other packages also start with the name Libre...)
Next unpack the language package to your home folder.
Repeat the former commands by using your keyboard's up cursor.
cd Libre*
cd DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
delete the folder Libre... (because the other packages also start with the name Libre...)
Finally unpack the help package to your home folder.
In a terminal enter:
cd Libre*
cd DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
delete the last final folder Libre...
Then LO should appear as several starters in your menu bar.
#5 Re: Off-topic » A Libreoffice Writer ODT that Crashes the Devuan Desktop » 2024-11-06 11:09:42
Hi there!
Here on Devuan 5 Xfce 64 bit with Libre Office 7.6.7.2 there are no problems with this document so far.
LO 7.6.7.2 is the latest version which doesn't need to install additionally python.
EDIT: typed wrong version of LO
#6 Re: Other Issues » What is the real MAC of wlan0 ? » 2024-09-21 14:54:52
The command "sudo lshw" provides this information on my MacBook Pro:
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*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlp3s0b1
version: 02
serial: ce:90:b4:79:b7:53
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=6.1.0-25-rt-amd64 firmware=784.2 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:a0600000-a0603fff
============================================
Does this help?
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