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DebEX Barebone Build 170822 with LXDE: Create you own Debian 9 “Stretch” system in the easiest possible way!

Posted Today at 01:00 PM by exton (Exton's Blog)

Tags debex, debian 9, exton, kernel 4.12.8, refracta tools

NEWS 170822 about DebEX LXDE – a Refracta Build
A new version of DebEX Barebone with LXDE and kernel 4.12.0-12-exton (equivalent to Kernel.org’s latest stable kernel 4.12.8) is ready. All packages have been updated to the latest version as of August 22, 2017. DebEX Barebone is now based on Debian 9 Stretch and Debian unstable – Sid. I have replaced Google Chrome with Firefox 55.0.2 (for Netflix).

What’s new in kernel 4.12?

Important about Refracta
You...

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Eclipse2017

Posted Yesterday at 05:33 PM by Habitual (Spock's Brain)

Missed it.
Turdpress migration.

I may run out of sun, but never work.

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Run your Ubuntu/Debian 64 bit system with the latest stable kernel – 4.12.8!

Posted Yesterday at 03:45 PM by exton (Exton's Blog)

Tags debian, exton, kernel 4.12.8, linux, ubuntu

I have compiled yet another Ubuntu/Debian kernel for 64 bit systems. This time kernel 4.12.0-12-exton, equivalent to Kernel.org’s latest stable kernel 4.12.8 released 170816.

What’s new in Linux kernel 4.12?

Install kernel 4.12.0-12-exton in Ubuntu/Debian based distributions
My self-compiled Ubuntu kernels can be used in all types of modern Ubuntu systems, including Mint. They can even be used in Debian Jessie (Debian 8) and Debian Stretch (Debian 9).
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Bulging capacitors on motherboard

Posted 08-18-2017 at 02:10 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 08-19-2017 at 01:34 PM by the dsc

Tags capacitors, hardware

A sequel to my topic, "onboard video card dying, or something else?", where Shadow_7 posted:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadow_7

Sounds about the time of this little piece of corporate espionage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

I had a bad cap on an asus rt-n16. One of my old motherboards had a similarly spec'd cap that I replace it with. $80 saved.

If the bad caps are on the motherboard, a new video card wont save it.

Out of curiosity,...

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Annotations while trying to eventually get suspension and/or hibernation to work

Posted 08-16-2017 at 04:33 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 08-16-2017 at 05:18 PM by the dsc

I've never used this kind of thing, decided to give a try, as it seemed safe for all I was reading.

"pm-suspend-hybrid" did work, but after resuming, the CPU fan was reset to full speed all the time, as if the BIOS was set to have "smart fan control" disabled.

It may be also partly because some of the power management options (whatever is its name) are set to "S3" which I recall reading isn't really appropriate for suspension (which keeps...

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