debian stable - v11 - bullseye - firefox esr performance improvement on old hardware

For some websites, the default settings in firefox esr on my old hardware, seems to make the site slow to load, and have "top" indicate unexpectedly high system load (4+), even though the website was mostly text (news google com).

=> Edit => Settings => Fonts ( Read more... )

Debian Stable (v11 aka bullseye) installation to a Gateway MX6214 laptop.

Downloaded the i386 netinst ISO.

From the preexisting Debian10 installation, used brasero to burn the ISO netinst image into a CDROM

Rebooted from the netinst CDROM.

Used a wired connection to install the default installation.

As root, added my primary user to the ( Read more... )

Haven't been on LiveJournal in a while, but I just popped in to see if anyone else was still getting on here. I recently installed Debian 8 on my ThinkPad R60 and have been really enjoying it. I've been a Debian user since Squeeze.

If you are using Google Music Manager on Wheezy, do NOT install the latest version until it comes down from the Google repository and it can be installed. The latest Google MM requires at least libc6 2.15, and you likely have 2.13 installed. If you really want to run it, you can upgrade to Jessie (which brings in libc6 2.17), but you're probably ( Read more... )

Debian 7 stable - installing to Gateway MX6214 laptop

I wasted a lot of time trying to use a USB drive of the debian7 netinst ISO image. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. No matter what I tried, the BIOS on the gateway would not recognize the USB drive correctly to boot. Would just say something to the effect of 'no operating system found.'

Instead, used ( Read more... )

Greets

I am working on a hobbyist project to generate a coded text file based on
user input.

I am using C++, and MVC design pattern(s). Have decided it will be licensed GPL v3.

For the GUI (view the user will interact with) I am researching gtk,
curses, and such, but never have used any of them before on a project.

Hoping my fellow Debian LJers ( ( Read more... )

It's been noticed by many complaining of the traffic being chocked that the perpetrators are testing shy, - whenever a testing program that is advertising it's presence is used - the chocking stops ( Read more... )

I know Debian community is supposed to be moderated. I would assume for some sort of spam and indecent code monkeys. I have made four posts to Debian community. Every one of them posted immediately ( Read more... )

Well, it's official. Verizon DSL is blocking a normal use of all the Aptosid mirrors. In two seconds after connection (apt-get update, upgrade, or install) a flood of TCP RST breaks the connection. The only way i am getting (a very slow) upgrades is by running a continuous ping of some other site at the same time. This seems to reset the ( Read more... )

Was having trouble installing Debian stable into my wife's Gateway MX6214 laptop. It has a Fujitsu 80Gb harddrive ( Read more... )