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Applications and Porting / Chromium for Ubuntu

« Last post by MauryG5 on November 17, 2024, 11:16:00 am »

By chance I re -examined the Hardisk where I had installed Ubuntu 20.04, I had dismantled it about 3 years ago as it had too many small bugs and in the meantime Debian 11 had arrived which I had liked much more than Debian 10 and so I went to Debian. I noticed with my great surprise that in the meantime, after years, they finally resolved those ugly and annoying bugs that compromised the proper functioning of Firefox and that did not work completely working Thunderbird. I said incredible Wow, considering how little I see used Ubuntu in our Cominita Power, compared to Fedora and Debian above all. I must say that now I am using it again with good satisfaction, however, I miss the only thing and that I cannot use Chromium despite being Ubuntu a direct debian derivative. I was wondering and I would also ask Raptor that I take care of Chromium, is it not possible to have repositories compatible for Chromium? I tried to use those of Debian 12 before and 11 after but nothing. I managed to install the key, the repositories, on the other hand, obviously do not go even if in reality when I try to update after putting the reposoarths, he loads them almost all except one that ignores and I think it happens because they are not the right ones for Ubuntu. I was wondering if there was a way, as Ubuntu was a Debian derivative, to be able to install Chromium too ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« Last post by MauryG5 on November 14, 2024, 03:06:58 pm »

Guys I confirm that currently Fedora 41, at least as far as I'm concerned, has a large system bug that does not even allow the start. After updating mine and lost it, I reformed everything and redo the installation from scratch. Well even by doing this, at the time of the start from Petit Boot, Initrd and end error does not start. So watch out for those who want to update ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« Last post by MauryG5 on November 04, 2024, 12:33:52 pm »

I did what you told me Daniel, I signed up to the Debian mailing list and after they sent me the acceptance response to the subscription, I immediately sent an email to the address: debian-bugs-rc@lists.debian.org and I exposed there the problem of Kernels that from 6.2.X onwards on 12 do not work. Let's see what they answer me and I hope I wrote in the right place...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« Last post by Hasturtium on November 04, 2024, 09:01:20 am »

I look forward to the upgrade, pending any weird issues that crop up. I may defer to ClassicHasClass's probable writeup before taking the plunge.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« Last post by MauryG5 on November 04, 2024, 05:23:09 am »

I upgraded to 41 and boom, after having installed everything correctly, when booting from petit boot it tells me an initrd error and Fedora doesn't start anymore... It's incredible how an upgrade can actually break everything, it's never happened to me with anything. But unfortunately you have to expect anything from Fedora, luckily I switched to Debian a long time ago as my first choice because honestly Fedora always disappoints me, every time I use it it always has a thousand problems and now it's even completely broken after the upgrade, a real disgrace with all due respect!

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« Last post by tle on October 31, 2024, 11:09:34 pm »

"Fedora 41 features a number of package updates like going to LLVM 19, LXQt 2.0, Python 3.13, DNF5, RPM 4.20, PyTorch 2.4, AMD ROCm 6.2, GIMP 3.0 (near final form), replacing Redis with Valkey, and many others. Fedora 41 also features interesting features like self-encrypting drives support within the Anaconda installer, Intel IPU6 camera support for newer Intel Core laptops, Wayland-only GNOME Workstation media, NVIDIA driver support on Secure Boot systems, the new fedora-repoquery tool, a new alternative spin for Fedora Miracle, and more."

More details on changeset could be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/41/ChangeSet

It's yet another great version from Fedora. Everything runs as expected for PPC64LE arch

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: for sale: two workstations, Talos II dual CPU / Radeon RX580 8GB

« Last post by pocock on October 30, 2024, 06:00:02 pm »

The 8-core CPU/HSF/motherboard/RAM combination has been sold

The case from the 8-core system is still available, along with PSU, riser for a GPU, a SATA 4-way cable and a SATA HBA

The Noctua fans have been sold

The other system is still available.  I could move the motherboard with 4-core CPUs into the Fractal case if that is the case you prefer.

One very interesting possibility with the dual 4-core system: you could buy another motherboard, either Blackbird or Talos II Lite, directly from Raptor and then move one of the CPUs to that other motherboard.  Then you have two 4-core systems.

4-core systems are interesting because they use less electricity, generating less heat and less noise but they still give very good performance and they are completely open.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« Last post by pocock on October 29, 2024, 03:27:25 pm »

Daniel I was also thinking of taking the problem directly to the Debian forums at this point, can you tell me which are the main forums where I can write and bring the problem?

Please join the debian-devel mailing list.  That has always been the main place to communicate about issues that span multiple architectures.

From what I understand the problem is not only for us on Power but also on other architectures they are having problems with Debian 12 on the new Kernels... This problem must be solved once and for all because it is absurd not to be able to use the new Kernels on the latest version of Debian and then on the old Debian instead everything works perfectly it makes no sense... I updated because now on 11 they do nothing anymore and they don't update almost anything anymore and we are left behind. I like Gnome 3.38 better than 3.4X but unfortunately now we have to use this but at least everything works damn it...

If you search the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS) for all the reports about Debian installation failures and Debian upgrade failures you will see that I personally spend time testing the upgrades and installations during the freeze process before every release and I share all my feedback about bugs.

Now that Debian has become so political they reject legitimate bug reports without even looking at them.  Even if a found a zero-day security issue, the political filters would block me reporting that.  One bug report from an experienced developer might avoid problems for another 10,000 anonymous users who don't know how to report bugs.

There have been various reports and surveys in 2024 revealing that young people are not getting involved and the existing developers are getting older

Personally, I feel the Code of Conduct gaslighting is a big factor in that.  When young people go out to the pub on a Saturday night, the last thing they hope to see are their parents, their professors or their boss in the same pub.  Yet when you see some reference to Code of Conduct for a weekend event like FOSDEM, it is not a real weekend any more.  If they want to have people behave like their boss is around all the time, why not move FOSDEM to a weekday so more people can ask their company to pay them for the time we spend there?

When people see lawsuits, they don't always know who is right or wrong but they just go somewhere else.

When people see the press team writing statements to denounce a volunteer, people subconsciously reduce their effort to do testing or reporting bugs during the pre-release freeze.

Therefore, the quality of the software declines and we risk getting into some kind of death spiral where the politics pushes some people away and then the lack of reliability pushes even more people away and it becomes harder and harder to recover.

They are always talking about having a "safe space".  If they push everybody out so it is just 15 or 20 core members of the cabal then I'm sure they will feel safe but they won't have a real distribution any more.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« Last post by carlosgonz on October 29, 2024, 02:46:20 pm »

I prefer 64K than 4K. I am using 64K on GnuTrisquel  11 GnuLinux (Libre) v6.11 and all wonderful. I think that PPC deserve 64K. Also it is shame for Debian being friendly with blobs propietary all this is happen because Evil Fedora.
Also i am worried  that pocock it selling all ppc machines. = (

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« Last post by MauryG5 on October 29, 2024, 12:51:03 pm »

Daniel I was also thinking of taking the problem directly to the Debian forums at this point, can you tell me which are the main forums where I can write and bring the problem? From what I understand the problem is not only for us on Power but also on other architectures they are having problems with Debian 12 on the new Kernels... This problem must be solved once and for all because it is absurd not to be able to use the new Kernels on the latest version of Debian and then on the old Debian instead everything works perfectly it makes no sense... I updated because now on 11 they do nothing anymore and they don't update almost anything anymore and we are left behind. I like Gnome 3.38 better than 3.4X but unfortunately now we have to use this but at least everything works damn it...