[Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

[Hendrik Boom]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 12:56:25PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:55:11PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > continues in 5 mins...
> 
> Yes ... I could not join ... I had set up a jitsi meeting early y/day
> evening ... Firefox could not see my webcam it could a few days ago - but was
> updated on Saturday - which, I suspect, is the issue - nothing else changed.
> 
> That FF update also brought in new options "Allow Firefox to send technical and
> interaction data to Mozilla" and auto-set to on ... I do not recall that I was
> asked :-(
> 
> Time to upgrade my desktop to be able to run Brave (which does work with
> jitsi). I have run RedHat/CentOS for 25 years, but Centos 8 comes with Gnome
> 3 -- which I hate with a passion. I could install Xfce - but prefer Mate - so I
> am prob going to install Linux Mint - a child of Debian.

If you want Mate and do not want systemd, you could start with Devuan and 
install mate as a package.
Mate is not the default desktop, but it is available.

-- hendrik

> 
> My desktop has mirrored disks. I will break the mirror, install on one disk,
> preserve the current installation on the other, run up the current system, run
> the new one as a virtual machine, configure it, copy stuff over, then boot the
> new system native, test, add the old disk as a mirror to the new system (which
> current versions of LVM should let me do).
> 
> I have been putting this off for far too long :-(
> 
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> Alain Williams
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