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Doh! I overlooked that "pre-hint".

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I learned that Raspbian Buster on the Pi4 is pretty old, and that you can build version 6.0.0 by adding the -dev packages you need and compiling it. It seems to work fine (I only built emulation for linux-i386 and i386-softmmu for experimenting with freedos).

How to list all backported packages you have installed [Debian]:-

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This past week I learned that the Linux Foundation hosts vaccine passport projects: https://www.lfph.io/join/projects/

It makes me glad to see them helping make the world freer and more open.

In the last week I updated a local box to slackware64-current to begin to test it for the eventual server move. Using slackware at home is a bit different than on my server, so I had to setup wireless networking. It seems the days of using wicd are gone, as it has been removed from -current. So I had to learn a new way to get wireless going. Insert NetworkManager, which is a right PITA to deal with. NM kept getting new leases from my router, and kept turning off wifi for no apparent reason. I don't know why wicd was removed and replaced with this software, but little did I know then, that with a wpa_supplicant.conf and "dhcpcd wlan0", I could get networking going basically just like ethernet. Goodbye NetworkManager.

I also learned that some kind soul has been hacking the nvidia drivers (which quit working some time ago), and I could use v340.108 with my 5.12 kernel with patches from: https://www.if-not-true-then-false.c...vidia-patcher/

These 2 things have made my week a bit better for using linux on a desktop!

I learned to use Densify to compress pdf files.

Wow, this is really cool - didn't know about it - thanks for sharing!

Installing Armbian or Raspberry Pi OS, after you image the SD card, you can mount the root file system on the system where you imaged the card, and edit /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. Then when you boot your Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi for the first time, they will already get on the network with your choice of static IP address, no need to look in your router log to see what dynamic IP they were assigned.

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
ssid="getavpnyouidiot"
psk="supersecretpassword"
}

/etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.142.99
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.142.2
dns-nameserver 216.146.35.35

I have recently (last two days) found a PDF Editor, PDF Studio Pro, which is a cross-platform pdf software - ideally suited to me as I my "go-to" pdf fixer! It is a great boon to my life. See it at: qoppa.com/pdfstudio if you need.

I learned how to create a bootable USB stick with Linux Mint on, and I have watched the Linux TV 7 part series of videos for beginners and I learned rom them how brilliant Linux Mint is. Will be installing it tonight to my old D drive.

Installed the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (RHEL 8.4) Developer edition.
You must have be registered with Red Hat to download the ISO.
After installing you must register the OS with under your username otherwise you cant download new packages or update them.
The registered OS is only for 1 year but no worries. You are allowed 16 instances from Red Hat website. That means either you can register 16 systems or re-register same system again and again 16 times.
After installation I installed VMware but it got stuck where its trying to install some extra modules vmmon and vmnet. So I find this https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...st-be-compiled.
And it solved my problem very easily.

To trust to myself instead to others. My system works much better since then.

Canon MG5700 printer wouldn't print. Got message about cups-browsed. Found by trial and error that it was probably the printer (situated away in a different room unfortunately) going though its interminable 'cleaning print heads' routine, 'cos the printing got done eventually. So, select print, then go and make a cup of tea.

Fails every time on one or two things since I upgraded, and stops the rest of any updates available. Disabled it, and use sudo zipper up’ to get updates.