Google Summer of Code 2019 and Debian For the Debian team, all the hard work in applying to be part of this years Google Summer of Code (GSoC) has paid off. Info. If you’re not sure what this is please see the main GSoC page. But to quote the GSoC website “Google Summer of Code…
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Stretch to Buster
I decided to upgrade a spare netbook from Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster). This went really well, just a case of editing /etc/apt/source.list then running apt update && apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade I didn’t see any messages during this process. Not the process is not fully automated here, it will stop and ask…
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NETHACK Nethack website From the Nethack wiki “NetHack is a roguelike computer game, and the most famous and popular of its kind. The latest version is 3.6.1, released on April 28th, 2018.” Download page As Nethack-vulture is no longer available in the Debian / Ubuntu / Mint respositories I have gone back and decided to…
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VECTOROIDS APPLICABLE TO DEBIAN 9.x (STRETCH) Vectoroids – is a rock based shooting game, along the same lines as the old 8bit arcade classic asteroids. you can install using apt install vectoroids on Debian. (use root, either with su or sudo). vectoroids/stable,now 1.1.0-13+b1 amd64 [installed] vector-based rock-shooting This version comes with Debian 9 Stretch. By default…
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If you have been following my posts on Public Keys and email then the following my be of interest. To add more security to your system you can encrypt any messages saved in your Drafts folder (Thunderbird). As per This is perhaps useful as some messages such as those on IMAP mail servers will…
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I am now running Debian Linux 9.5. This is the current stable release. So far this seems really stable. I have installed the most recent build of Weechat IRC Client from the backports. So feel free to chat to me (zleap) on Freenode. I’ll still hang out in the Linuxmint support channel on…
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I spent a few hours this afternoon migrating my netbook from Lubuntu to Debian 9.5 (Stretch), this went really well. There were no issues with hardware support as I had already tested this before migration. So having installed the base OS, installed extra software and copied back all my backed up files. I am…
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## December 2017 write up. This month was another successful tech jam, with lots going on. The Physical computing section was set up early with Pi’s, monitors etc, along with some extra monitors for use by visitors. This area has become pretty much self sufficient. This month, we again had our switch setup, so each…
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The next release of the Debian OS 9.0 (Stretch) is scheduled on 17-6-2017 More details on this announcement can be found on the Debian mailing list Archive. https://www.debian.org/
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Parts 2 and 3 of this series seem to be in limbo until I figure out what the issues are. However I have now solved another issue. With the server PC, I have on-board graphics and an AGP slot with a graphics card in. This AGP card was enabled for the install. I found…
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