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Username: angstrom
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> @bikegremlin said:
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> > > [@bikegremlin said](/discussion/comment/227503/#Comment_227503): IMO - stable beats new. :)
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> [@bikegremlin said](/discussion/comment/227503/#Comment_227503): IMO - stable beats new. :)

But the new versions 31 and 32 are (technically) stable! =)

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By the way, just to say that TAB.DIGITAL offer free 8GB Nextcloud accounts:

https://tab.digital/en/nextcloud-one

I haven't tried them. They say that the free accounts ha…

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> > > Sticking with MXroute's Crossbox Nextcloud platform for the time being - it wor…

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> @bugrakoc said:
> Hello everyone. I'm in need of shared hosting in/near Europe. I instinctively tried BuyShared, but it looks like it's a scam website now. Who is the go-to shared host…

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> > Around a month ago, mainly because I was curious, I signed up for a free 2GB Nextcloud account at The Good Cloud ( https://th…

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> @backtogeek said:
> Turned out it was a cursed com port mouse haha, I took it home and it did the same to my own PC. (for the kids, a comport was used for mice before ps2, for the bab…

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> Thanks for telling me that TWM is in the main distribution.
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> @Not_Oles said:
> What happens if I get rid of the modular xorg meta-package plus all the other X packages, and install just
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> wm/twm

If it's twm …

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> @bikegremlin said:
> PuTTY is free and gets the job done though:
> https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

+1 for PuTTY. I've been using…

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> @Not_Oles said:
> I posted to pkgsrc-users, received and tried some great suggestions, but the xf86-video-openchrome error continued.
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> I reverted to my Linveo …

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> > @Not_Oles , you seem to like living on the edge :)
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> Yes! :)

I'm a long-term NetBSD user …

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> [@angstrom said](/discussion/comment/222607/#Comment_222607): But for NetBSD it would be nice to find where exactly the option not to build this package is located

I think that I'…

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@Not_Oles , you seem to like living on the edge :)

Any reason why you're trying to build modular-xorg?

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> [@Not_Oles said](/discussion/comment/222573/#Comment_222573): Looks like I could do without the xf86-video-openchrome package since I might not be using a VIA chipset?

Right, if y…

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> @Not_Oles said:
> Am I making a mistake expecting to build xf86-video-openchrome on amd64?

Unfortunately, I don't have the answer to your question, but you might try ask…

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Just to say that Devuan Excalibur 6 has been released: https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/excalibur-release-announce-2025-11-02 :)

(Devuan Excalibur 6 is based on Debian 13)

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> > > > I've been running a couple of N…

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> @bikegremlin said:
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> > I've been running a couple of Nextcloud installations for a number of years now, but I run them on VPSes
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I've been running a couple of Nextcloud installations for a number of years now, but I run them on VPSes

As your report suggests, it can be tricky to run Nextcloud on shared hosting, b…

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As far as I can tell, the OSS version is no longer supported or encouraged by Higher Logic, which is the company that now owns Vanilla (now called "Higher Logic Vanilla"). The web site makes no menti…

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> @Not_Oles said:
> Thanks to and following the kind suggestions from @nwnuyhs [here at LES,](https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/219908/#Comment_219908) I decided to try install…

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> @nwnuyhs said:
> I like LES , and same love with Vanilla

Holy necro

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@HostSlick was last active here on June 7th and their last post dates from January 21st

For what it's worth, their provider tag on OGF was suspended some days ago

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> @landscape said:
> I'm very happy to have purchased the three-year service, but I must admit that I'm a complete beginner. I couldn't find any related tutorials online. Does the offici…

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"mail archiving system"?

(I'm waiting for someone to say that real women and men live in the moment -- ain't got no time or need for a mail archiving system =) )

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Of course, there's a certainly a sense in which it's better to have no debt than to have some debt, but at the same time, for ordinary people in many countries, there are big purchases for which acqu…

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> @msatt said:
> ^ So are you saying a proven abuser should be allowed on 'proper' forums ?

I'm sure what a " 'proper' forum" is, but setting this aside, if what you mean …

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Perhaps I'm missing something, but given that a user who signs up on a forum (e.g., on LES or OGF) can choose an arbitrary username and give a throw-away email address, how could they be reliably ide…

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Realtox Media, BF Special 1 (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD)

(Needed to create a 1GB swap file beforehand for Geekbench 6)

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> @vvhello said:
> Welcome to LES

This thread dates from December 2023

Congrats on your first post

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> > > [@MichaelCee said](/discussion/comment/186499/#Comment_186499): Somewhere down the line people started typing Thanks rath…

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