NMGLUGers, in answering Leroy: I am just now reading the release notes thoroughly. In the main my Xfce desktop is the same, with new artwork, an empty "Favorites" section of the app menu that I am adding to, and some settings set to the new defaults that I am re-tweaking. I have purged 'quodlibet' and 'exfalso' and installed 'audacious' and 'streamtuner2': this to get music streams from the Internet. Importantly there is a syntax change in the Debian security line in /etc/apt/sources.list. This is explained in the release notes on the Debian wiki website <https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/armel/release-notes/ch-information.en.html>, and is due to apt syntax symbols. As I have only had two days to explore and use the 32 bit laptop I cannot give a wider view just yet. I did find that there are some special versions of the installer and some unofficial versions include some firmware blobs for hardware not covered by free drivers. I had decided to give up on 32-bit computing, but as Debian supports it, I will do some more exploring on this. However, I have an even older laptop running Buster and since there is about a year of support I will let it be and discard it or pass it on at the end of a year if not sooner. The slowness of these machines and lack ability to play streaming video makes them subpar for even an average user. Still it is fun to explore and I am happy with the upgrade so far. Thank you, Ted P On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 9:44 AM Leroy Lints <dr.leroybrown@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Ted,
What are the changes to printing that you found? I am curious.
Regards, Leroy
On Mon, 2021-08-16 at 10:53 -0600, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
NMGLUGers, Bullseye is Debian 11. It was released last week and I have already had a chance to upgrade a 32 bit machine and it runs well. The laptop is circa 2010 with an Atom processor. Of course it is a bit slow, but that is not surprising. Kernel 5.10 is working well with this older laptop. I have begun to read the release notes and will study them some more. There are changes to printing which sound interesting, and some comments about the systemd logs and journals. I will have some more time before our virtual meeting this Thursday to test the new software and make some changes in my selection of applications for various tasks. Thank you, Ted P _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug@lists.nmglug.org http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
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