Using a package out of date since more 2 years ago does not sound like a success story but that is the only way so far I found to get suspend/resume to work without systemd within KDE5 without headaches. pm-suspend and pm-hibernate, on the command line, work perfectly though. Why? Because Powerdevil, KDE’s power management […]
A while ago, I was encouraging to give a try to systemd. Well, now I know better and decided to get away from this tool that clearly wants to replace many parts of my system at once. There are many articles about systemd, why it’s good and why it’s not. I kept on open mind […]
Not really a very informative post, but I thought you’d be interested into the following: I moved most of my computers to systemd. On most of them, the boot process is tremendously faster. I haven’t noticed any problem (with somehow heterogenous hardware – but all i686/IA64/AMD64 though). Plus logs got more relevant messages. Have a […]
I won’t comment once again systemd, I think my mind set on the topic and future will tell if I was right or wrong. Still, dislike for the humongous scope self-assigned by systemd does not equate to consider that sysv-rc cannot be improved, it does not mean being stuck with sysv-rc for life. Good thing […]
On some occasion, it is practical to have a terminal in the kitchen, mainly to check on recipes. While a phone screen is not that great, a tablet would do. I do not have any tablet and I am not that fond of systems readily available on tablets. But I do have a few old […]
Sound on GNU/Linux never have been convenient. Right now, de facto standard is PulseAudio: yeah, made by the same people that does this nightmare of systemd. When it works it is better than just ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture). When it doesn’t, you’re in for a headache. Anyway, I had this situation where I wanted […]
Something like 6 years ago, I already described desktop environment I used over years. I was, since then, decently satisfied by KDE/Plasma/however you name it. Mostly because kmail works properly with IMAPS and handle CardDav-cloud server out of the box, because Dolphin is the best file browser (immediate filter and group files and directories by […]
After switching to Devuan, I got suddenly dolphin complaining that it cannot mount an USB Key. Since Devuan is back to polkit to get rid of systemd (but polkit is probably part of the problem too), the fix is to add a /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/auto-mount.pkla with: [Allow Automount] Identity=unix-group:plugdev Action=org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes And make sure users […]
I’m using a laptop, among other things, as alarm clock (included in my -utils general debian package). The hard disk of this laptop is not getting any younger and get noisy while there’s a decent amount of RAM available. I toyed a bit in the past with ramdisk/tmpfs (the later having the benefit not to […]
