Nope I'm pretty sure LMDE is on debian jessie. Although the Mint or Mint-related software is a rolling release of sorts on top of that (Cinnamon, Mate, mdm etc.)
Currently debian stable is newer than Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!
LMDE 2 is on current debian stable already. I tried it and well, nothing special. I still have the same opinion : debian is about the same as Ubuntu, except when you find out it's missing a piece of software or a driver or whatever. By all means get debian stable if you want debian stable. Just that it being more "solid" or whatever on a desktop is a myth.
I installed Lubuntu 10.10 on a Pentium 3 with 256MB and it was fine, even surprisingly good at showing non-fullscreen web video. It was an interesting franken computer, with the 16:9 LCD monitor and a Firewire card.
LXDE runs on Rapsberry Pi 1, which is a worse computer than that (but with HDMI and hardware H264 decoder) It makes sense actually, why would software need to spend a billion cycles to open a start menu or a run box etc.
The article shows a couple a couple embedded images whose resolution is at least 4x too low to be able to read them. This happens all too often on the modern webs. Authors can't care enough to check what they're doing. Such crap didn't happen in the "this site is optimized for 800x600" era, or in print media.
Start saving money if you haven't done so, then. You'd expect the server version to not do that crap, so get the server version when it comes you. That will be $800 per seat, thanks for your business!
NB : you can pay. Upgrade from Windows 7 Home to Windows 10 Home, then pay the fee to go from Home to Pro. That way, you pay for the update and get all the spyware anyway.
That's true, but what happens then is that in linux you have to give up what you were trying to do. Forget it altogether or wait monthes/years for a new distro version to try again.
A friend uses Samba on his Linux Mint machine to read video on the set-top box, which presumably runs linux. The nice part is he set it up by himself! likely by right-clicking the directory. Formerly known as the guy whom every body wouldn't dare touch his Windows XP PC full of god knows what spyware and inscrutable cruft.
It's in "Update Manager", "View", "Linux Kernels". Also allows to delete kernels although that is slow, and must be done one by one.
It has to be said, although updates to the kernel are never automatic. Thus pproximately no one does them I'd say. In fact, with straight Ubuntu I had to do the apt-get get dist-upgrade described in the story to update the kernel (which I did very rarely) and I did not bother with graphical tools. Now there's a likable graphical tool for updates, so instead of the graphical stuff disabled or not present I get notified for every software non-kernel update that comes up.
I don't know about security updates held up, and I don't use Cinnamon (can't buy an Intel graphics card to run a desktop). This I believe is where's most of the hackery due to e.g. GTK3 upstream constantly trying to ruin the game for devs that are not building UIs that look like a cross of Mac OS and Windows 8. The article seems fairly preposterous. For me the Mate and Xfce editions are where it's at and yes the default themes etc. are a good reason, along with cross-DE tools. Not gonna using and pushing some hastily thrown together desktop with e.g. a black task bar on top rather than a gray task bar on bottom, ugly icons and wallpapers and so on.
That is called language. When the locution is used the other way around, it fails the literal interpration too. When you say something is "50 times more expensive", the intended meaning is that the price or cost is 50x that of the other item, and not 51x. Thus "times more" is a straight multiplication not a multiplication and addition. "Times less" is the reciprocal, thus it is a division not a multiplication followed by a negative addition*.
* Tought experiment : k is the factor. Literal "times more" means A = B * (k+1). A new interpretation of "times less" allowing the substitution of multiplication by division is A = B * 1/(k+1), so "10000 times less" would mean "divided by 10001"?
I want to mean there's historical baggage that may explain some of that. I'm reminded of a decade ago, being asked for a largish sum to do a small wire transfer between France and Belgium. I had the option to pay a smaller sum if I could give detailed information on the other bank and account (name and address of bank outlet, full name of the account holder..)
That was fairly suprising (given we were identified with IBAN/BIC numbers anyway)
Now the same would be likely free of charge since SEPA wire transfers, which came into effect very recently, let's say in 2011. This deployment can likely serve as an inspiration for a US-wide system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I believe I can even get cash in any ATM in the whole Eurozone for free (at least the first five retrievals in a month) although I would have to double-check that. (Country-wide here, ATM fees when using "not your ATM" vary from low to zero, or a handful free allowed, depending on your bank and the terms that govern that. I believe using "not your ATM" abroad in the Eurozone should be the same as "not your ATM" in the same country)
60GHz seems meant for a big living room and doing things that would otherwise be a big waste of spectrum such as streaming video from the internet to a tablet, and then to the TV. Display streaming at high bitrate (games or thin client desktop) from the wired desktop in another room to a laptop or laptops. Upload/download with USB 3.x media to or from the file server at silly transfer rates such as ~100MB/s.
I would find that interesting, with the big desktop and file server on wired ethernet (or desktop that does file server role)
It's the US, so there must be hundreds/thousands of banks, like there are hundreds of healthcare providers, CDMA phone networks, several power grids, paying to receive phone calls. Bet there are byzantine procedures to deal with and a lack of top-down integration to allow that free transfer.
France had both chip cards and a survivance of cheques, necessary to pay e.g. children's sport clubs and other such "administrative" expenses. You can still pay at the supermarket with cheques although they put conditions because of so many fake, stolen or without underlying money cheques. I think no one hardly ever heard of bank cards without a chip. It went straight to chip cards with PIN and cheques still widespread as the method where you sign. So it was both "advanced" and "retarded".
Even with a realtime kernel, JACK would instantly eat 100% of a CPU core when connecting to the mixer, and I'd get dropouts.
I have the intuition (not so much an intuition) using a real time kernel would increase the CPU load rather than decrease it. Perhaps the "tick rate" or whatever it is of the real-time feature can be configured. In another vein you remind me why I don't use a "3D accelerated" desktop in linux, I like to keep a top window running when needing to keep tabs on things and this just results in crazy CPU load spikes by the window manager, Xorg or both.
Pulseaudio does have a cool feature, you can add one silly line of configuration and get a "mono output" virtual device, which is useful if one of two speakers is broken or you're listening to a "left ear" youtube video. That's the one good thing I could say about it. I do audio consumption.
I'm not really buying phones for a decade (though the dumb phone might last quite long) but in the near future I think the useful lifetime of hardware will only increase. E.g. a 10-year-old desktop is now a Core 2 Duo beast with 2GB RAM and its performance is still current, if not for slight inconvenience such as software video decoding and booting time of more than 20 seconds. What when the low end smartphones have 64bit and 4GB RAM?:) (ok, rather 2GB)
Asking for a 10-year OS on a smartphone is a bit of mindless provocation but eventually more people will forget that phone needs be replaced much often (barring hardware failure or thinking replacing broken or scratched glass is not worth the hassle or expense). An early example might be the iPhone 4S : it's nearing 5 years and still supported.
Biofuel on the other hand a closed cycle and far more sustainable, which in itself is a worthy goal to pursue.
I believe you're mooching off the biosphere then. You're taking a closed cycle, and substract energy/materials from it to turn them into transportation, residential heating, industrial processes and so on. With lavish energy use and economic output like we have now, leave alone economic growth, this will quickly lead to soil depletion, water depletion, deforestation, desertification and famine.
Bio-fuel economy is like going to ancient times such as Roman Empire, medieval ages and so on : that worked out somehow but was hard to sustain over centuries. A hell lot of land was cleared. You gotta feed those legions, horses and oxen. I'm far from having hard numbers, but rather than US/Europe lifestyle I suppose bio fuels might support North Korea levels of personal transportation i.e. cars for the 0.1% (and even then the elites aren't doing 100-mile daily commutes in that country).
Makes a lot of sense to replace the battery on e.g. a 10-year-old phone. I'm talking non-smart phones here, they seem to last for a long time if not subject to theft or loss. Smartphones are immature yet. No adequate software support, or perhaps you could use it long term as long as you don't log in to anything on the internet. 10 years support with weekly security updates would be acceptable.
I'd rather have the OS show documents, so that we go back to reading safe, to the point documents. Then the web browser can be used to run applications only.
Limited load-following is done in France, and nowhere else in the world as far as I know. Wikipedia tells me it's done in Germany too. I think of it as being able to vary in a 5% or 10% range. Reactor design and operation have to account for it. So, it does exist but vast majority of nuclear plants in the world don't bother with it.
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Nope I'm pretty sure LMDE is on debian jessie. Although the Mint or Mint-related software is a rolling release of sorts on top of that (Cinnamon, Mate, mdm etc.)
Currently debian stable is newer than Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!
Watch your free space though, adding a kernel takes hundreds of megabytes.
There will be an upgrade path from LMDE 2 to LMDE3, since they're using stable instead of frozen testing versions like before.
LMDE 2 is on current debian stable already.
I tried it and well, nothing special.
I still have the same opinion : debian is about the same as Ubuntu, except when you find out it's missing a piece of software or a driver or whatever. By all means get debian stable if you want debian stable. Just that it being more "solid" or whatever on a desktop is a myth.
I installed Lubuntu 10.10 on a Pentium 3 with 256MB and it was fine, even surprisingly good at showing non-fullscreen web video. It was an interesting franken computer, with the 16:9 LCD monitor and a Firewire card.
LXDE runs on Rapsberry Pi 1, which is a worse computer than that (but with HDMI and hardware H264 decoder)
It makes sense actually, why would software need to spend a billion cycles to open a start menu or a run box etc.
The article shows a couple a couple embedded images whose resolution is at least 4x too low to be able to read them. This happens all too often on the modern webs. Authors can't care enough to check what they're doing. Such crap didn't happen in the "this site is optimized for 800x600" era, or in print media.
Start saving money if you haven't done so, then.
You'd expect the server version to not do that crap, so get the server version when it comes you. That will be $800 per seat, thanks for your business!
NB : you can pay. Upgrade from Windows 7 Home to Windows 10 Home, then pay the fee to go from Home to Pro. That way, you pay for the update and get all the spyware anyway.
That's true, but what happens then is that in linux you have to give up what you were trying to do. Forget it altogether or wait monthes/years for a new distro version to try again.
A friend uses Samba on his Linux Mint machine to read video on the set-top box, which presumably runs linux.
The nice part is he set it up by himself! likely by right-clicking the directory. Formerly known as the guy whom every body wouldn't dare touch his Windows XP PC full of god knows what spyware and inscrutable cruft.
You can get 4GB DDR2 sticks of memory from ebay for real cheap (a pair of them). They only run on AMD deskops.
It's in "Update Manager", "View", "Linux Kernels".
Also allows to delete kernels although that is slow, and must be done one by one.
It has to be said, although updates to the kernel are never automatic. Thus pproximately no one does them I'd say.
In fact, with straight Ubuntu I had to do the apt-get get dist-upgrade described in the story to update the kernel (which I did very rarely) and I did not bother with graphical tools. Now there's a likable graphical tool for updates, so instead of the graphical stuff disabled or not present I get notified for every software non-kernel update that comes up.
I don't know about security updates held up, and I don't use Cinnamon (can't buy an Intel graphics card to run a desktop). This I believe is where's most of the hackery due to e.g. GTK3 upstream constantly trying to ruin the game for devs that are not building UIs that look like a cross of Mac OS and Windows 8.
The article seems fairly preposterous. For me the Mate and Xfce editions are where it's at and yes the default themes etc. are a good reason, along with cross-DE tools. Not gonna using and pushing some hastily thrown together desktop with e.g. a black task bar on top rather than a gray task bar on bottom, ugly icons and wallpapers and so on.
Well I have a simpler concern : if this ffmpeg 3.0 doesn't hit Ubuntu 16.04, then wait for Ubuntu 18.04 (or Mint 19) to have it.
That is called language. When the locution is used the other way around, it fails the literal interpration too. When you say something is "50 times more expensive", the intended meaning is that the price or cost is 50x that of the other item, and not 51x. Thus "times more" is a straight multiplication not a multiplication and addition. "Times less" is the reciprocal, thus it is a division not a multiplication followed by a negative addition*.
* Tought experiment : k is the factor. Literal "times more" means A = B * (k+1).
A new interpretation of "times less" allowing the substitution of multiplication by division is A = B * 1/(k+1), so "10000 times less" would mean "divided by 10001"?
A regular Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has better Tesla per Watt ratio than a nuclear heat engine?
Please, your extremely generic capital letters are hard to follow.
I want to mean there's historical baggage that may explain some of that.
I'm reminded of a decade ago, being asked for a largish sum to do a small wire transfer between France and Belgium. I had the option to pay a smaller sum if I could give detailed information on the other bank and account (name and address of bank outlet, full name of the account holder..)
That was fairly suprising (given we were identified with IBAN/BIC numbers anyway)
Now the same would be likely free of charge since SEPA wire transfers, which came into effect very recently, let's say in 2011. This deployment can likely serve as an inspiration for a US-wide system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I believe I can even get cash in any ATM in the whole Eurozone for free (at least the first five retrievals in a month) although I would have to double-check that. (Country-wide here, ATM fees when using "not your ATM" vary from low to zero, or a handful free allowed, depending on your bank and the terms that govern that. I believe using "not your ATM" abroad in the Eurozone should be the same as "not your ATM" in the same country)
60GHz seems meant for a big living room and doing things that would otherwise be a big waste of spectrum such as streaming video from the internet to a tablet, and then to the TV. Display streaming at high bitrate (games or thin client desktop) from the wired desktop in another room to a laptop or laptops. Upload/download with USB 3.x media to or from the file server at silly transfer rates such as ~100MB/s.
I would find that interesting, with the big desktop and file server on wired ethernet (or desktop that does file server role)
It's the US, so there must be hundreds/thousands of banks, like there are hundreds of healthcare providers, CDMA phone networks, several power grids, paying to receive phone calls. Bet there are byzantine procedures to deal with and a lack of top-down integration to allow that free transfer.
France had both chip cards and a survivance of cheques, necessary to pay e.g. children's sport clubs and other such "administrative" expenses. You can still pay at the supermarket with cheques although they put conditions because of so many fake, stolen or without underlying money cheques.
I think no one hardly ever heard of bank cards without a chip. It went straight to chip cards with PIN and cheques still widespread as the method where you sign. So it was both "advanced" and "retarded".
Even with a realtime kernel, JACK would instantly eat 100% of a CPU core when connecting to the mixer, and I'd get dropouts.
I have the intuition (not so much an intuition) using a real time kernel would increase the CPU load rather than decrease it. Perhaps the "tick rate" or whatever it is of the real-time feature can be configured.
In another vein you remind me why I don't use a "3D accelerated" desktop in linux, I like to keep a top window running when needing to keep tabs on things and this just results in crazy CPU load spikes by the window manager, Xorg or both.
Pulseaudio does have a cool feature, you can add one silly line of configuration and get a "mono output" virtual device, which is useful if one of two speakers is broken or you're listening to a "left ear" youtube video. That's the one good thing I could say about it. I do audio consumption.
I recommend Evince 2.32 as the pdf reader (perhaps it loads .ps at least) and tranmission-qt or Deluge, although I don't know about qBittorent.
I'm not really buying phones for a decade (though the dumb phone might last quite long) but in the near future I think the useful lifetime of hardware will only increase. E.g. a 10-year-old desktop is now a Core 2 Duo beast with 2GB RAM and its performance is still current, if not for slight inconvenience such as software video decoding and booting time of more than 20 seconds. :) (ok, rather 2GB)
What when the low end smartphones have 64bit and 4GB RAM?
Asking for a 10-year OS on a smartphone is a bit of mindless provocation but eventually more people will forget that phone needs be replaced much often (barring hardware failure or thinking replacing broken or scratched glass is not worth the hassle or expense). An early example might be the iPhone 4S : it's nearing 5 years and still supported.
Biofuel on the other hand a closed cycle and far more sustainable, which in itself is a worthy goal to pursue.
I believe you're mooching off the biosphere then. You're taking a closed cycle, and substract energy/materials from it to turn them into transportation, residential heating, industrial processes and so on. With lavish energy use and economic output like we have now, leave alone economic growth, this will quickly lead to soil depletion, water depletion, deforestation, desertification and famine.
Bio-fuel economy is like going to ancient times such as Roman Empire, medieval ages and so on : that worked out somehow but was hard to sustain over centuries. A hell lot of land was cleared. You gotta feed those legions, horses and oxen.
I'm far from having hard numbers, but rather than US/Europe lifestyle I suppose bio fuels might support North Korea levels of personal transportation i.e. cars for the 0.1% (and even then the elites aren't doing 100-mile daily commutes in that country).
Makes a lot of sense to replace the battery on e.g. a 10-year-old phone. I'm talking non-smart phones here, they seem to last for a long time if not subject to theft or loss.
Smartphones are immature yet. No adequate software support, or perhaps you could use it long term as long as you don't log in to anything on the internet. 10 years support with weekly security updates would be acceptable.
I'd rather have the OS show documents, so that we go back to reading safe, to the point documents. Then the web browser can be used to run applications only.
Limited load-following is done in France, and nowhere else in the world as far as I know. Wikipedia tells me it's done in Germany too.
I think of it as being able to vary in a 5% or 10% range. Reactor design and operation have to account for it. So, it does exist but vast majority of nuclear plants in the world don't bother with it.