Category: NZTekonverse -> Debian
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Setting up sudo on Debian
Debian is a bit different from Ubuntu and that is the reason I like it. Debian is much more focused for technically advanced people and, for example, has hibernation enabled by default, which contrasts with Ubuntu that makes it difficult to use hibernation, and there are many other differences in Debian that I prefer. One…
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Reinstall KDE system with LXQt [2]; KDE network and display configuration extremely difficult with numerous bugs
As related yesterday I found various issues with KDE on a computer and decided to reinstall Debian 10 with LXQt as the user interface. After completing the installation I attempted to use ConnMan, which is the network configuration manager that comes with LXQt on Debian, to do a manual configuration of the 1.x network adapter…
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Reinstall KDE system with LXQt [1]; KDE network and display configuration extremely difficult with numerous bugs
KDE has some great reputation as a desktop environment in Linux and has won considerable plaudits. It however has numerous unresolved bugs which I have observed in the display and network configurations that are leading me to ditch KDE on one of my desktop computers in favour of LXQt. I have had three computers running…
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Free Linux video editors [3]
Well I have written about free video editors for Linux a number of times, this is the third article in this series. It’s taken me a few years to get to this point of discovering good quality software for Linux because there are so many open source projects that people have started and then abandoned,…
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Ubuntu LTS vs non LTS releases
Good day. As I install various versions of Ubuntu on a few virtual machines and computers and also use Debian on some as well, there is naturally an important comparison to be made between the Debian and Ubuntu release cycles. Ubuntu has stabilised on a twice yearly release cycle but the LTS releases are every…
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Linux video editing, revisited
Some way back, I don’t recall exactly, I talked about Linux video editing. When I set up mediapc the idea was that was going to be its key function. Then I ran into some roadblocks trying to find FOSS software that could do this, and just gave up and stuck with Avidemux, which can do…
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Rolling back a Flatpak application to a previous version
Today on my main graphics editing PC, I decided to update Gimp from 2.10.16 to 2.10.18. Which should have been OK. Except that it wasn’t. I have spent all day dealing with Gimp crashing during saves and trying to work around with ever smaller files to be saved. It did crash last night as well…
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Stopping desktop notification popups on LXQt
I see a fair bit of LXQt, whether it is on my one desktop that is running it on top of a Debian install, or my preference for laptops and virtual machines which is to install Lubuntu for fast pain-free installations, especially with non-free firmware and low resource use. Debian remains my preference for my…
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Rsync Backup System [5]: Ongoing Backup Journey
Since writing the first four articles on this topic, I have not yet figured out how to implement an incremental backup strategy, and so I am still doing only the full backup every few months. Hence right now I am doing my first full backup of mainpc for three months. The first issue that has…
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Debugging Linux startup issues with JournalCtl
My computers running Linux are very reliable but every so often a spanner will be thrown in the works and the computer will refuse to come up beyond a command prompt. When this happens you have to look at the logs to try to work out what is happening in the system and how to…