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 1
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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In a related topic to my previous post. As I am now using Debian. I was looking for the application in the menu called ‘passwords and keys‘ It turns out that this is in fact called ‘seahorse’. This offers an easy to use interface for GnuPG, ssh keys and security certificates. So a good…
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If you use tools such as GNU Privacy Guard to sign and or encrypt e-mail then you have the facility in Thunderbird, with the Enigmail extension to attach your public key (.asc file) to your e-mails. This is found as an option within the e-mail compose window. Enigmail Menu — > attach My Public…
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More updates to the ToriOS manual. Starting to add information on the various applications that come with the Operating System and also update and maintain other parts of the manual. Help with this and documentation for free software generally is always welcome. https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv21 forks.1 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: README.md updated from https://stackedit.io/, Paul Sutton add…
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I spent a few hours last night (12/1/2018) re-writing the ToriOS manual in LaTeX using Overleaf. This is and important step forward. ToriOS is now based purely on Debian, due to the continuing support for older systems. This has gone well. Overleaf allows projects to be downloaded the project (zip file) and the pdf…
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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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Just a quick update. I will hopefully running the Paignton Code Club from 15th September 2018. I am NOT taking over on a permanent basis, but want to keep the club running until the group leader is able to take over and carry on. I can then go back to just helping out…
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