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
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
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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NMGLUGers and Leroy, Right. Printing. The release notes indicate progress on printing without the need for proprietary firmware for particular printers. I have long preferred HP printers as HP was much more forthcoming with firmware. The section (for AMD64 architecture) on printing is Here. <https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-operation> The goal of driverless printing and better interoperability seems to have been reached. This is covered in the "What's New" section and I believe is similar across all architectures. I don't print too often and I do not have any problematic printers or scanners, so I cannot give any firsthand report on this. Still, the progress is good news and I hope somebody will be able to give us a report sometime this year. Anyway I remain very happy with the upgrade and first steps with Bullseye. Thank you, Ted P On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:10 AM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com> wrote:
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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NMGLUGers, I just added a post to our "Latest" blog, giving a few more details about Debian11/Bullseye. I am very happy with the upgrade. I plan to be at our virtual meeting on Thursday. I hope all are well and keeping busy. Thank you, Ted P On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 3:47 PM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com> wrote:
NMGLUGers and Leroy, Right. Printing. The release notes indicate progress on printing without the need for proprietary firmware for particular printers. I have long preferred HP printers as HP was much more forthcoming with firmware. The section (for AMD64 architecture) on printing is Here.
<https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-operation> The goal of driverless printing and better interoperability seems to have been reached. This is covered in the "What's New" section and I believe is similar across all architectures. I don't print too often and I do not have any problematic printers or scanners, so I cannot give any firsthand report on this. Still, the progress is good news and I hope somebody will be able to give us a report sometime this year. Anyway I remain very happy with the upgrade and first steps with Bullseye. Thank you, Ted P
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:10 AM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com> wrote:
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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One again I won't make the meeting but it's because I have my first ever gig in Albuquerque, as the bass player in a (CW) band called Outlaws and Sinners. We're playing the Lazy Lizard Grill. :) Wish me luck :) On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 2:45 PM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com> wrote:
NMGLUGers, I just added a post to our "Latest" blog, giving a few more details about Debian11/Bullseye. I am very happy with the upgrade. I plan to be at our virtual meeting on Thursday. I hope all are well and keeping busy. Thank you, Ted P
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 3:47 PM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com> wrote:
NMGLUGers and Leroy, Right. Printing. The release notes indicate progress on printing without the need for proprietary firmware for particular printers. I have long preferred HP printers as HP was much more forthcoming with firmware. The section (for AMD64 architecture) on printing is Here.
<https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-operation> The goal of driverless printing and better interoperability seems to have been reached. This is covered in the "What's New" section and I believe is similar across all architectures. I don't print too often and I do not have any problematic printers or scanners, so I cannot give any firsthand report on this. Still, the progress is good news and I hope somebody will be able to give us a report sometime this year. Anyway I remain very happy with the upgrade and first steps with Bullseye. Thank you, Ted P
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:10 AM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Hope everyone is well. Check hardware support with the new kernel before upgrading. I hosed my primary DE because the 5.x kernel does not yet support the USB 3 cards I have in my tower, which forced me to run Bullseye with the old kernel ... Various other things are/were still broken: 1) flatpaks do not work for the two paks I need yet, Telegram and Jitsi, the latter of which is work important 2) A common file browser from the trisquel project which i used for years and still fully maintained, called caja, is broken / in an incomplete state which I found surprisingly debilitating for common use tasks 3) overall, seemed rushed and early compared to Buster ... slowness, flickering, a few other rarely used apps also not functioning, etc. 4) I did not even bother to test real stuff like running pspp models or matlab, etc., but suspect it would be wonky too ... So, I decided to nuke it and wait for Bullseye to mature a few months and downgraded my primary desktop. On the laptop, the installation was atrociously long, required multiple dpkg commands for failed setup/installs, and after finally installing everything and getting rid of all errors from the upgrade with dpkg --configure -a sudo apt autoremove and then a final sudo apt full-upgrade, it just runs particularly slow (log in to DE is nearly 2 mins long instead of 10 seconds), the fan runs regularly during common tasks, apps take noticeably long to open compared to before .... and I am sure I will find more broken stuff later. I will keep Bullseye on the laptop for now and hope an update/upgrade cleans it up, if not, not sure - might downgrade it too ... FINAL REPORT: Only bleeding edge early birds should migrate imho, the rest of the folk may want to wait 4 months or so ... I can't imagine the problems with more serious / production environments. Bullseye won't be coming anywhere near my server for some time (6 months? I think), I can assure you of that ... semester starting, etc., no time to be messing with that given how bad these were in general and compared to how stretch to buster was (nearly flawless). If anyone wants to meet in person tonight, DM me on Signal ... invite in signature. Jonathan Haack On 8/18/21 2:45 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
NMGLUGers, I just added a post to our "Latest" blog, giving a few more details about Debian11/Bullseye. I am very happy with the upgrade. I plan to be at our virtual meeting on Thursday. I hope all are well and keeping busy. Thank you, Ted P
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 3:47 PM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com <mailto:ted.pome@gmail.com>> wrote:
NMGLUGers and Leroy, Right. Printing. The release notes indicate progress on printing without the need for proprietary firmware for particular printers. I have long preferred HP printers as HP was much more forthcoming with firmware. The section (for AMD64 architecture) on printing is Here. <https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-operation> The goal of driverless printing and better interoperability seems to have been reached. This is covered in the "What's New" section and I believe is similar across all architectures. I don't print too often and I do not have any problematic printers or scanners, so I cannot give any firsthand report on this. Still, the progress is good news and I hope somebody will be able to give us a report sometime this year. Anyway I remain very happy with the upgrade and first steps with Bullseye. Thank you, Ted P
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:10 AM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com <mailto:ted.pome@gmail.com>> wrote:
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 <mailto: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 <mailto:nmglug@lists.nmglug.org> > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org <http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org>
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