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Free Speech / Re: Hey My Fellow Sids!

« Last post by edlin on Today at 10:32:18 »

I think you should make a fundamental decision:

- Do you want a distribution that receives few updates because it is based on a stable version (e.g. of Debian)? However, this will mainly only provide you with security updates and will be based on older proven package versions.

- Or would you like to take advantage of a rolling release with up-to-date packages? Then you will have to make friends with regular updates. This also applies to Siduction.

I myself have been using Debian since Potato and later only distributions based on Debian/unstable. With apt and dpkg, Debian has a tried and tested package management system that also makes it easy to manage Siduction in daily use.

I personally update daily so that the process remains manageable. This morning there were 45 packages, but most of them concerned libreoffice. Really big updates are rare and occur during transitions (Perl, switching the time format to 64 bit, ...).

I'm a bit more relaxed about the documentation. All the important things about installation, administration etc. are included in the Siduction manual. Otherwise you can find help here in the forum.

edlin

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Free Speech / Re: Hey My Fellow Sids!

« Last post by devil on Today at 06:27:39 »

Hi there,
with siduction you might as well have 100 updates per day, depending on the chosen desktop and/or installed packages. But that is not every day. For example, if there are updates for Plasma or LibreOffice, that already accounts for many packages. When running siduction, you should not be update-lazy and update at least once per week. Accumulating too many packages could cause clutter. Quite a few of us in the team have been running siduction productive for many years. The install I am writing from is six years old, and I bet there are much older ones around. So, if you know your Debian package management, you have a quite stable OS at your hands, despite its unstable nature. It is a good idea to check the 'Upgrade Warnings' section on the forum before doing your regular dist-upgrade.

When it comes to documentation, of course, we cannot compete with Arch. Who can? But we believe that our siduction manual is quite comprehensive as well. Of course, I am biased, but maybe siduction can stop your wandering days as a distro hopper. Just give it a try,

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Free Speech / Hey My Fellow Sids!

« Last post by Ze_Mind on Yesterday at 23:46:10 »

I have been using Debian ever since Squeeze. Since then I've been going through about every "main" distro (except Gentoo or Knoppix) OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu (cough), Mint + LMDE, and have previously been on Arch. Did vanilla Arch install, but went for the others, like ArcoLinux, Endeavour, Garuda. But right now, I'm using Sparky. A distro based on Debian Test Branch.

The reason I left Arch, is because I didn't like the daily ~100 updates. And if you skip a couple days, you get a HELL lotta updates. Now Debian Testing has a lot of updates too, but as many. Is Siduction like Arch, in a way? Just not as well documented?

Enlighten me, guys.

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Upgrade Warnings / lxqt install -- hold off on full-upgrade

« Last post by mdmarmer on 2024/05/12, 02:08:01 »

If you have an lxqt install -- hold off on full-upgrade  -- right now d-u removes libfm-qt13 lxqt lxqt-core lxqt-panel -- probably not a good idea.

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Upgrade Warnings / Re: GPG Key Expired?

« Last post by ro_sid on 2024/05/10, 21:05:19 »

Access to the "gatech.edu" repository is denied ("forbidden") at all. Try to access it with a browser... May be, just temporarily unavailable.
Has nothing to do with certificates or keys.

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Upgrade Warnings / Re: GPG Key Expired?

« Last post by RunLevelZero on 2024/05/10, 20:26:57 »

hmm, I commented gatech out and used princeton and I'm not seeing the same issue.....

Hit:4 https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/extra unstable InRelease    
Hit:5 https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/fixes unstable InRelease

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Software - Support / Re: deborphan aus Repo entfernt (Ersatz).

« Last post by ro_sid on 2024/05/10, 20:03:26 »

Na ja,

Meine Frage lautet nach Ersatz, nicht nach wiederbeleben.

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der selbst zitierte Link https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1065312 zeigt, wie schwierig bis "unmöglich" derzeit ein Ersatz zu finden ist. Und - siehe den momentan letzten Beitrag dort - vielleicht ergibt sich daraus ja ein Maintainerwechsel.

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Software - Support / Re: Virtuelle Maschinen

« Last post by edlin on 2024/05/10, 19:59:52 »

@Isegrimm666
Der Link „Klick mich“ funktioniert nur unter Betriebssystemen, die Edlin als Editor im Gespann haben, also z. B. die NT-basierten Windowsversionen. Dann öffnet sich beim Klick der Editor Edlin.
Warnung: Wenn du einmal mit Edlin ernsthaft arbeiten musstest, wirst du vi für das beste Officeprogramm der Welt halten.

edlin

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Software - Support / Re: deborphan aus Repo entfernt (Ersatz).

« Last post by hsp on 2024/05/10, 18:26:52 »

Meine Frage lautet nach Ersatz, nicht nach wiederbeleben.

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Software - Support / Re: deborphan aus Repo entfernt (Ersatz).

« Last post by ro_sid on 2024/05/10, 18:14:40 »

*push*

"deborphan" ist aber im (Debian-12/Bookwork-)Repository (noch) verfügbar.
Wer direkt im "pool"-Verzeichnis eines Spiegels "herumwühlen" mag, findet sogar eine noch neuere Version - solange "Testing" das Entfernen nicht nachvollzieht.