off-topic - Ryzen cpu purchasing question
by David
I have all the basic components ready for a new pc build
except for the CPU.
I can get by easily with a Ryzen 3, but that processor
would not be much better than my old Intel. But it
would allow me to finish my build faster, and be up
and running with Fedora on my new NVMe M.2 drive.
Where I live, ordering online at Walmart is about $ 10
cheaper than other services.
I will be using this computer for basic household task
while at the same time reporting my experiences with
Fedora and likely just the Rawhide isos. I hope to
install several Rawhide isos on my new NVMe in the
coming months, and probably other distros too.
I have no reason to hurry with this build other than being
anxious to report how it works with various Linux distros and especially
Fedora.
I assume it would be silly to waste money on a $ 300 cpu.
Right ? But if I can restrain myself, and take a deep breath,
then I should be able to place an order
the new Ryzen 5 3600XT in about a month. Those are currently
$ 250 plus tax U.S.A. dollars. I can not really justify doing that
today. Today, I could order the Ryzen 3 for $ 75, and start my
build next week. Does anybody really care how the Ryzen 3 now
performs in 2020 on Fedora ( on a desktop pc ) ?? I imagine that
would now only be relevant on a laptop.
David Locklear
3 years, 9 months
crond
by Patrick Dupre
Running
systemctl status crond
I get
crond.service - Command Scheduler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; enabled; vendor pre>
Active: active (running) since Wed 2020-07-08 20:44:30 CEST; 1h 42min ago
Main PID: 1415 (crond)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 9349)
Memory: 3.6M
CPU: 342ms
CGroup: /system.slice/crond.service
└─1415 /usr/sbin/crond -n
Jul 08 20:44:31 Teucidide crond[1415]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify suppor>
Jul 08 21:01:01 Teucidide CROND[4007]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Jul 08 21:01:01 Teucidide anacron[4016]: Anacron started on 2020-07-08
Jul 08 21:01:01 Teucidide anacron[4016]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 28 min.
Jul 08 21:01:01 Teucidide anacron[4016]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
Jul 08 21:01:01 Teucidide run-parts[4018]: (/etc/cron.hourly) finished 0anacron
Jul 08 21:29:01 Teucidide anacron[4016]: Job `cron.daily' started
Jul 08 21:29:01 Teucidide anacron[4016]: Job `cron.daily' terminated
Jul 08 21:29:01 Teucidide anacron[4016]: Normal exit (1 job run)
Jul 08 22:01:01 Teucidide CROND[8390]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Why cron.weekly does not show up?
Thanks
===========================================================================
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Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
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3 years, 9 months
Migrqate from Legacy to EUFI?
by toddandmargo
Hi All,
I need to migrate a Fedora server from a mechanical hard drive
running legacy boot to an NVMe drive that requires EUFI to
boot.
Am I stuck reinstalling everything?
Many thanks,
-T
3 years, 9 months
newbie question about version numbers of Linux software
by David
According to some programs in Gnome, the version number is
"bumped up," even though there were no changes.
This ideology seems odd to me.
Example the Gnome game, "Hitori."
And while I have your attention,
I still have not figured out
the game-launcher "Athenaeum." I can't get any of the
games installed with that to update. Is there a separate
updater inside the game-launcher ? Maybe they are up
to date, but Gnome Software does not think so. Try
Hitori for example, since it is so tiny, and you might be
able to verify my issue. I have not yet check in terminal
to see if the version number matches what Gnome Software
is claiming.
David Locklear
3 years, 9 months
f32 libinput :: stop it from disabling the keyboard
by Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! Does anyone have an idea how can i stop that libinput crap forcing
my latop in tablet mode and by this disabling the keyboard and touchpad?
This effectively bricked my latop! is not longer usable!
This happened just just after an update, but because there were many
packages i cannot narrow it down.
I already tried to downgrade libinput, the keyboard is still disabled
This in an HP Pavilion 11 x360 convertible.
Thank you!!
Adrian
3 years, 9 months
Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
by Robin Lee
I'm trying to do a very simple task on my Fedora 32 desktop but somehow
I can't make it happen.
I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from microsoft.com that I
put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical machine,
but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu, but
it won't boot.
I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went fine.
I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two different
USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
What am I doing wrong? Or is this nefarious scheming by Linux to stop
people from experimenting with alternative operating systems?
3 years, 9 months
pulseaudio over network
by Richard Shaw
I plan on doing a demonstration for an Emergency Management meeting and I
need to have two computers cross connected via audio.
Ideally this would be between two sound cards but laptops with a single
3.5mm audio jack seem to be problematic. I've ordered another USB->Audio
adapter but it won't get here in time.
I basically want to pipe the audio Comp1-out -> Comp2-in, and Comp2-out ->
Comp1-in.
I can find an Arch wiki on how to set this up (kinda) but wasn't sure it
100% translated to Fedora.
Anybody have any suggestions or links on how to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Richard
3 years, 9 months
Start CUPS -
by Bob Goodwin
What is the command to start the cups printer administration display in
Fedora 32?
It always was available when I entered "631" in the Firefox address
window. I guess I need the exact command but cant find it. systemctl
status says it loaded and active but it is hiding from me if it is?
Bob
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FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
3 years, 9 months
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> 1. Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad) (Samuel Sieb)
> 2. Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file (Robin Lee)
> 3. Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file (Samuel Sieb)
> 4. Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file (Robin Lee)
> 5. Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file (Samuel Sieb)
> 6. Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad) (Beartooth)
> 7. Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad) (Samuel Sieb)
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> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 11:43:01 -0700
> From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
> Subject: Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID: <d4be6549-3280-da0d-903f-bff1585845d8(a)sieb.net>
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> On 7/5/20 10:52 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 12:59:10 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> [....]
>>> I'm pretty sure those are in /etc, not /etc/dnf. If they're in the
>>> latter, can you confirm that and check what package provides them (rpm
>>> -qf /etc/dnf/DIR_COLORS*)? I don't see anything providing them.
>>
>> You're right. My bad. They're in /etc. And I get # rpm -qf /etc/
>> dnf/DIR_COLORS*
>> error: file /etc/dnf/DIR_COLORS*: No such file or directory
>
> But this is the wrong file anyway. The configuration for dnf colors is
> in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. See "man dnf.conf" for details, see the section
> under "[MAIN] OPTIONS - COLORS".
>
>> Am I remembering wrong? Istr that I could tell a given machine
>> *once* that I want to see dot files, and it would *always* display them.
>
> I don't know how you would do that. Maybe there's a config for ls or
> you can add "-a" to the ls alias.
>
>>> After you edit it, you must source /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh to pick up
>>> the changes.
>>
>> "source" is a verb?? Sorry -- you lost me. What does it mean?
>
> There's a bash command called "source" that executes the script file in
> the current context. That means that any environment variables that are
> set will stay in effect.
>
>>> You can also copy the proper DIR_COLORS* file to your home dir to avoid
>>> having a clean install overwrite your changes in /etc. The paths which
>>> the colorls.sh script uses are:
>>>
>>> $HOME/.dir_colors.$TERM $HOME/.dircolors.$TERM $HOME/.dir_colors
>>> $HOME/.dircolors
>>>
>>> The first one found is used.
>>
>> Sigh. The curse of the autodidact strikes again. I know that
>> "HOME" in all upper case has a standard meaning, and I suppose "TERM"
>> must, too. But I can never remember what it is, nor where to look it up.
>
> Those are environment variables. "HOME" contains the current home
> directory and "TERM" contains the name of the current terminal emulation.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:01:11 +0200
> From: Robin Lee <robinlee(a)mailbox.org>
> Subject: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID:
> <06f83eb8b1df03e25b0dbd10876b74fb40ddb015.camel(a)mailbox.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> I'm trying to do a very simple task on my Fedora 32 desktop but somehow
> I can't make it happen.
>
> I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from microsoft.com that I
> put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical machine,
> but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu, but
> it won't boot.
>
> I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went fine.
> I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two different
> USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Or is this nefarious scheming by Linux to stop
> people from experimenting with alternative operating systems?
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:21:07 -0700
> From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
> Subject: Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID: <fdbec98f-6201-af8c-2350-eef4d576e163(a)sieb.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
> On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
>> I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from microsoft.com that I
>> put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical machine,
>> but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu, but
>> it won't boot.
>>
>> I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went fine.
>> I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two different
>> USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
>
> Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
>
> Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would just
> use dd to write it to the flash drive.
>
> In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
> sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:48:03 +0200
> From: Robin Lee <robinlee(a)mailbox.org>
> Subject: Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
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>
> On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
>> > I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from microsoft.com
>> > that I
>> > put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical
>> > machine,
>> > but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu,
>> > but
>> > it won't boot.
>> >
>> > I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went
>> > fine.
>> > I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two
>> > different
>> > USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
>>
>> Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
>>
>> Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would
>> just
>> use dd to write it to the flash drive.
>>
>> In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
>> sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
>
> Same result.
>
> Also tested creating a bootable USB-stick with a Centos ISO-file. No
> problem.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:51:18 -0700
> From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
> Subject: Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
> On 7/5/20 12:48 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
>> On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
>>>> I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from microsoft.com
>>>> that I
>>>> put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical
>>>> machine,
>>>> but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu,
>>>> but
>>>> it won't boot.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went
>>>> fine.
>>>> I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two
>>>> different
>>>> USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
>>>
>>> Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
>>>
>>> Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would
>>> just
>>> use dd to write it to the flash drive.
>>>
>>> In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
>>> sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
>>
>> Same result.
>>
>> Also tested creating a bootable USB-stick with a Centos ISO-file. No
>> problem.
>
> Maybe that file can't be booted from usb. Are there any instructions
> from Microsoft about how to do it? I know I have done it a couple of
> times in the past.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 19:58:09 -0000 (UTC)
> From: Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID: <rdtbch$2i6$3(a)ciao.gmane.io>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:43:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> [....]
>> But this is the wrong file anyway. The configuration for dnf colors is
>> in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. See "man dnf.conf" for details, see the section
>> under "[MAIN] OPTIONS - COLORS".
>
> Well, as /etc/dnf/dnf.conf I see only this:
>
> [main]
> gpgcheck=1
> installonly_limit=3
> clean_requirements_on_remove=True
> best=False
> skip_if_unavailable=True
>
> I'll make a separate post for the rest, with effusive thanks for
> the clarifications.
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
> Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 13:01:44 -0700
> From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
> Subject: Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID: <d3739daf-bf3f-42cb-845f-caf6aa64bdfe(a)sieb.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
> On 7/5/20 12:58 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:43:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> [....]
>>> But this is the wrong file anyway. The configuration for dnf colors is
>>> in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. See "man dnf.conf" for details, see the section
>>> under "[MAIN] OPTIONS - COLORS".
>>
>> Well, as /etc/dnf/dnf.conf I see only this:
>
> If you want to override the default values, you need to add them there
> as described in the man page.
>
>> I'll make a separate post for the rest, with effusive thanks for
>> the clarifications.
>
> Ok, if you can't figure it out, then I'll reply there.
>
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