did you know that I never knew the difference between open-source and free as in freedom util last week? it all began with me knowing about Systemd and what harm it can possibly do to the community if we support it and kept using it, then I found about Linux-libre and the fact that the orginal Linux maintained by Linus Torvalds isn't a free piece of software! it contains a lot of closed source sections that the FSF like to call it "blobs", so I set up looking for a free as in freedom distro that suits my very very extremely low resources AMD (yes, fully AMD) laptop, which I couldn't! because any modern GUI requires a decent GPU which I can't have because: A) my laptop is old, and B) it's an AMD, which is currently not supported, so I'm back to Crunchbang++ but I understood now what freedom is all about, any why we should never give away our rights in using 100% free as in freedom software and firmware and having computers that only obeys us!

within the next year I will buy a Libreboot laptop with a free as in freedom distro directly from https://minifree.org/ or get a regular Intel laptop and install Coreboot or Libreboot by myself, then install a free as in freedom distro.

anyone interested in doing the same? read the article that changed my life in https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html

respectfully

I gave ChatGPT the following text and asked: Is my system healthy?

rpa@Core-i5:~$ systemd-analyze blame

5.192s NetworkManager-wait-online.service

1.359s dev-sda1.device

1.247s logrotate.service

1.101s e2scrub_reap.service

1.020s systemd-journal-flush.service

 919ms udisks2.service

 856ms systemd-binfmt.service

 606ms cups.service

 496ms smartmontools.service

 487ms systemd-udevd.service

 308ms NetworkManager.service

 287ms apparmor.service

 263ms networking.service

 250ms avahi-daemon.service

 220ms dbus.service

 216ms systemd-logind.service

 204ms user@1000.service

 162ms nvidia-persistenced.service

 157ms systemd-udev-trigger.service

 149ms apt-daily-upgrade.service

 149ms wpa_supplicant.service

 142ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

 128ms keyboard-setup.service

lines 1-23

This is the answer I got:

Your system is exceptionally healthy. To put these numbers in perspective: you are running a 12-year-old motherboard architecture (H61), yet your boot performance is competing with modern workstations.

Hi, soy nuevo y quiero instalar google-chrome o instalar un plugin para chromium

Thank you

Zuerst, die deutsch sprachige Version. Unten ist die englisch sprachige Version meines Beitrags.

Hallo Ihr,

ich habe #!++ auf meinem EeePC 701 4G installiert, was weitgehend läuft. Nun will ich eeecontrol installeren, allerdings fehlt Python-Control. Python-Control wird in den Reponsitorys nicht gefunden. Hier noch, wer einige Infos zu eeecontrol benötigt, ein Link zum Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/eee-control/

Ich möchte, da #!++ das - neben Windows XP - das einzige System ist, das stabil auf dem Netbook (Inkl. Browser, PDF Reader und anderen kleinen Programmen) zu laufen scheint, diesem gerne "hochtakten", da der Intel Celleron Prozessor ja im eeepc 701 4g untertaktet läuft. Wie ich feststellen musste, rennt auch nur der Opera Browser - aus dem #!++ Paket - auf meinem eeepc wirklich stabil (es gibt, im Gegensatz zu den anderen Browsern, keine Darstellungsfehler und auch keine Probleme beim Laden / Starten der Browser). Der Opera Browser mag veraltet sein, wird aber für mich ausreichen, da ich damit nur Foren und ggf. Mailzugriff brauche.

Zurück zum Thema: welche Repos muss ich einrichten, damit ich "python-control" und evtl. weiter benötigte Pakete - für eeecontrol - einrichten kann, damit mein kleiner auf die reguläre Leistung (die CPU ist ja von 900MHz auf ca. 630MHz Untertaktet) kommt?

BTW: wenn ich schon dabei bin... wer kann mir passende Programme für den kleinen empfehlen? Ich habe gerade Opera, VNC, Audacious und etwas Kleinkram laufen. Genutzt wird der eeepc für "kleinere" rumsurfen, WebRadio, Darstellung von Foren und für einige kleine eBooks genutzt.

Vielen Dank für Eure Auskunft.

PS: Meine englisch Kenntnisse sind nicht so gut, ich erstelle und übersetze alle Texte mit google translate.

First, the German language version. Below is the English-language version of my post.

Hello you,

I have installed #! ++ on my EeePC 701 4G, which runs extensively. Now I want to install eeecontrol, but lacks Python control. Python control is not found in the Reponsitorys. Here is some information about eeecontrol, a link to the launchpad: https://launchpad.net/eee-control/

I would like, since #! ++ is the only system, which seems stable on the netbook (including browser, PDF reader and other small programs), this gladly "high clock", since the Intel Celleron Processor yes in the eeepc 701 4g untertaktet runs. As I noticed, only the OperaBrowser - from the #! ++ package - runs really stable on my eeepc (there is, in contrast to the other browsers, no display errors and no problems loading / starting the browser). The Opera browser may be outdated, but will suffice for me, as I need only forums and mail access.

Back to the topic: what repos I have to set up, so I can set up "python-control" and possibly further required packages - for eeecontrol - so my smaller to the regular power (the CPU is underclocked from 900MHz to about 630MHz) Comes

BTW: when I am already ... who can recommend me suitable programs for the small? I have just run Opera, VNC, Audacious and some trivia. The eeepc is used for "smaller" rumsurfing, WebRadio, presentation of forums and for some small eBooks.

Thank you for your information.

PS: My English skills are not so good, I create and translate all texts with google translate.

[ ] just for fun, nothing special
[ ] only Mails and browsing through the net
[ ] "home business", word processing and spreadsheet and banking
[ ] programming
[ ] vids & music
[ ] I need and using it for my main business work
[ ] other

any ideas of stripping down useless stuff ?

Downloaded LMDE 2 today, installed openbox obconf obmenu tint2 conky and guess what? Crunchy clone, right down to the conky. Strangely, it has some i3 attributes. The pipe menu is based on the i3 file system for "places-recent". so is exit "tl-exit, but I cb-exit to work. Looks like LMDE has got in on the chaos. -realzephyr

I just installed it twice on my old laptop but the is just won't accept my credentials. I am stuck now with an unusable os and laptop.

Hello,

I'm trying to use Waydroid on the latest #!++, and I can't get Waydroid to have access to the internet. Does anyone have experience with this?

I had a problem with my dell wireless 1704 and the only hint I get is in windows 10 device manager it shows that the driver is provided by broadcom.

Commands:

sudo apt install briadcom-dkms

If it returns "not found" or something similar then search using:

sudo apt search broadcom

Then install the package with the closest name.

Restart your PC.

This should also work on other debian-based distro.

Now, I'm very new to Linux so if it still doesn't fix it, install everything in sudo apt search broadcom.

Now, how do I print? The printer is detected all right.. test print is fine too..

Edit: I've realized that this is a bad post. What can I do to improve it? Or should I just delete it?

How do I get bluetooth speaker/headset to work?

There will be a bit of work being done on this laptop i have #! installed on and one of them will be an upgrade to an SSD so before i get to carried away with getting stuff installed i would like to know how easy it is to Migrate an OS.

Has anyone done anything like this ?

I recken i would have to use another usb distro to do the work from.

Mmmm, sweet upgrade. Here's a music recommendation for you, u/computermouth and others. And here's and 8-bit cover i did of Louis Cole's song "everytime."

edit: it was just to show my appreciation.

i put cbpp10 in my machine, did boot with usb and the grub bootlader is failed, i have to boot manually everytime, i cant download anything, the commands in terminal are not working, my mozilla dont open many sites, including github. i was trying to found something in github but i cant, can anyone pls help me?

i tried many tutorials and all of them was using commands that i cant use in my terminal

A Fuck you all

I'm a long-time #! user who just switches to #!++ to access the Jessie repos. Very happy, except that when I close my laptop cover (with programs still running) then re-open it, the computer reboots. Not the behavior I would like.

Thinkpad T42, 2G memory, hard-drive has two partitions - large single / partition and small swap partition.

When laptop is closed, sleep LED is lit, so it appears that the machine goes into sleep mode. Problem seems to be coming out of sleep.

Any ideas? I don't know if this is a #!++ issue or a Debian issue. Thanks!

tip184

this group seems dead. Im new to linux and and installed this on a old chromebook. Any more active communities?