Taking Into Account, Ep. 25 - Systemd, VLC, MongoDB, SuperTuxKart, FSF DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Chulito
Hey Distrohuggers,
I have some exciting news. I am now on hardware with the latest Netrunner Debian Testing Edtion ( a. k. a. Blackbird, build no. 20190112. 0958 ) This is the best experience out of the box, I have encountered since I entered this journey to learn about Linux desktop computering, about 2-1/2 years ago. I guess my first question, is why did it install 16 GB of swap. It could use some additional wallpapers, but I would bet anybody trying Netrunner already is very picky about their custom wallpapers, and have them saved somewhere
( and plus you just can't please everybody. Memory usage only seems slightly higher than other KDE distros that i have tried. It comes pre-installed with Skanlite, and my personal opinion is skanlite sucks, and simple-scan is better. ---I need to master document scanning in Linux, and right now find it to be a headache. ---
I have recently tested versions of KDE Neon and FerenOS-Next. The only perk to Neon is you get daily miniscule updates of KDE software. Neon is worth checking out if you like to play with updated packages, but otherwise, it is not a real distro. FerenOS-Next is probably not yet even at Alpha stage, but the developer's enthusiasm is remarkable. Netrunner on the otherhand is not only polished but they do not have any Ubuntu or Mint things mixed in. The KDE software is a month or 2 behind Neon's development stable edition, and slightly behind OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I have tested my portable Brother 720D scanner and my cloud-based XenFax app, and my Brother color laserprinter HL-L3270CDW. The printer worked out of the box. Scanner required a easy two-step download. ( download deb file from Brother website and run using Qapt )
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Hey Distrohuggers,
I have some exciting news. I am now on hardware with the latest Netrunner Debian Testing Edtion ( a. k. a. Blackbird, build no. 20190112. 0958 ) This is the best experience out of the box, I have encountered since I entered this journey to learn about Linux desktop computering, about 2-1/2 years ago. I guess my first question, is why did it install 16 GB of swap. It could use some additional wallpapers, but I would bet anybody trying Netrunner already is very picky about their custom wallpapers, and have them saved somewhere
( and plus you just can't please everybody. Memory usage only seems slightly higher than other KDE distros that i have tried. It comes pre-installed with Skanlite, and my personal opinion is skanlite sucks, and simple-scan is better. ---I need to master document scanning in Linux, and right now find it to be a headache. ---
I have recently tested versions of KDE Neon and FerenOS-Next. The only perk to Neon is you get daily miniscule updates of KDE software. Neon is worth checking out if you like to play with updated packages, but otherwise, it is not a real distro. FerenOS-Next is probably not yet even at Alpha stage, but the developer's enthusiasm is remarkable. Netrunner on the otherhand is not only polished but they do not have any Ubuntu or Mint things mixed in. The KDE software is a month or 2 behind Neon's development stable edition, and slightly behind OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I have tested my portable Brother 720D scanner and my cloud-based XenFax app, and my Brother color laserprinter HL-L3270CDW. The printer worked out of the box. Scanner required a easy two-step download. ( download deb file from Brother website and run using Qapt )
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Grayson
I'm a huge fan of SystemD, although the only gripe is that PulseAudio is started automatically when I kill the process so I had to tell SystemD to stop restarting PulseAudio as a local user and that resolves my problem. For some reason, the -disabled- seems to be ignored and PulseAudio gets restarted by SystemD during bootup. I'd rather take full control of my system, including PulseAudio.
Of course, I could get rid of PulseAudio and just use ALSA, but I can't get HDMI audio to work with just ALSA. I tried JACK, but JACK won't start for HDMI audio. I have 5. 1 surround sound receiver.
As for MongoDB, UniFi Controller only supports MongoDB 3. 4, so UniFi Controller does not work with Ubuntu 18. 04 LTS. Only 16. 04. I wish Ubiquiti could have switched to mariaDB or SQLite for database management but nah. Won't happen.
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I'm a huge fan of SystemD, although the only gripe is that PulseAudio is started automatically when I kill the process so I had to tell SystemD to stop restarting PulseAudio as a local user and that resolves my problem. For some reason, the -disabled- seems to be ignored and PulseAudio gets restarted by SystemD during bootup. I'd rather take full control of my system, including PulseAudio.
Of course, I could get rid of PulseAudio and just use ALSA, but I can't get HDMI audio to work with just ALSA. I tried JACK, but JACK won't start for HDMI audio. I have 5. 1 surround sound receiver.
As for MongoDB, UniFi Controller only supports MongoDB 3. 4, so UniFi Controller does not work with Ubuntu 18. 04 LTS. Only 16. 04. I wish Ubiquiti could have switched to mariaDB or SQLite for database management but nah. Won't happen.
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Chulito
Hey Distrohuggers,
Today was a historical day in the history of homo sapiens. KDE Neon Developer's Stable Edition is no on Plasma 5. 14. 90. I am in it right now on hardware. I have Firefox 64 running and HTOP shows only 1 GB of memory usage, and my old trusty i5-3400 is barely churning on 2% of each core. I have only been it it long enough to type this message though. Todays update feature point-releases to several KDE Applications 18. 12. 1. x something. Okular got some touch-ups of some kind.
I plan to pull my SSD out tonight and put in a blank one and do some distrohopping. My local computer store ( about 45 minutes away, but I pass it on the way home from work, has 120 GB SSD ( Inland brand ) for $ 20 plus tax, USD. That is 8 candy bars, 3 full meals at Taco Bell.
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Hey Distrohuggers,
Today was a historical day in the history of homo sapiens. KDE Neon Developer's Stable Edition is no on Plasma 5. 14. 90. I am in it right now on hardware. I have Firefox 64 running and HTOP shows only 1 GB of memory usage, and my old trusty i5-3400 is barely churning on 2% of each core. I have only been it it long enough to type this message though. Todays update feature point-releases to several KDE Applications 18. 12. 1. x something. Okular got some touch-ups of some kind.
I plan to pull my SSD out tonight and put in a blank one and do some distrohopping. My local computer store ( about 45 minutes away, but I pass it on the way home from work, has 120 GB SSD ( Inland brand ) for $ 20 plus tax, USD. That is 8 candy bars, 3 full meals at Taco Bell.
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solidstate90
Hey DT and whoever else may see this i know you dont love noob questions i dont think im too big of a noob i have never done a fresh install on a SSD tho and i was wondering if you had any suggestions. I would like to use it as a boot drive so should i put the entire home and file system on it? i know i need to change my swappiness when i have finished and i know how to do that but the install part im a bit hung up on
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Hey DT and whoever else may see this i know you dont love noob questions i dont think im too big of a noob i have never done a fresh install on a SSD tho and i was wondering if you had any suggestions. I would like to use it as a boot drive so should i put the entire home and file system on it? i know i need to change my swappiness when i have finished and i know how to do that but the install part im a bit hung up on
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Yimo
-SystemD has a lot of haters. for ideological reasons- Hah. I don't know why It's hated. I've not dived deep into the details. But it's something about not being so Unix-y? Idk
Can someone explain to me why it's a big issue? (Send a link if you will, I don't want to waste anyone's precious time)
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-SystemD has a lot of haters. for ideological reasons- Hah. I don't know why It's hated. I've not dived deep into the details. But it's something about not being so Unix-y? Idk
Can someone explain to me why it's a big issue? (Send a link if you will, I don't want to waste anyone's precious time)
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Sylver
When I installed a new SSD on my uncle's laptop, the very first thing I installed are Firefox & VLC. You can play virtually everything. Can't believe we have to pay to play DVD & Blu-ray on Windows, when VLC can do it for free.
About MongoDB's dual-license, how is it different from Qt's?
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When I installed a new SSD on my uncle's laptop, the very first thing I installed are Firefox & VLC. You can play virtually everything. Can't believe we have to pay to play DVD & Blu-ray on Windows, when VLC can do it for free.
About MongoDB's dual-license, how is it different from Qt's?
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Zygfryd
3 billion downloads DOES NOT mean 3 billion people downloaded it! what a BS you are saying bro. Once you download it, every update counts. Plus as you said you use it on many comps/platforms - so where is 3 billion vs. 3 billion people you are saying? Bad ideology here.
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3 billion downloads DOES NOT mean 3 billion people downloaded it! what a BS you are saying bro. Once you download it, every update counts. Plus as you said you use it on many comps/platforms - so where is 3 billion vs. 3 billion people you are saying? Bad ideology here.
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LLORITO,
With this news about systemd's vulnerabilities, do we switch to Devuan/MX/Antix/insert-systemd-less distros now? DT, can you review the Devuan ASCII version? =)
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With this news about systemd's vulnerabilities, do we switch to Devuan/MX/Antix/insert-systemd-less distros now? DT, can you review the Devuan ASCII version? =)
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bigpod
SSPL is opensource licence as opensource is development paradigm where you show your source to everyone. THis is just like no true scotsman phalasy
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SSPL is opensource licence as opensource is development paradigm where you show your source to everyone. THis is just like no true scotsman phalasy
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bigpod
that about kernel having bugs was first thing thought of after i found out about systemd bugs why becuase i knew someone will try to attack it
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that about kernel having bugs was first thing thought of after i found out about systemd bugs why becuase i knew someone will try to attack it
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