Category: NZTekonverse -> Debian
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Linux backup solutions
So since I started to use Linux I have used rsync as a backup system. This has some limitations, and this week I decided to see if there is an actual backup solution. Well it turns out there are a number of FOSS backup packages to choose from. As usual the Gnome one (sbackup) isn’t…
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Debian 10, bye
So I had this computer running Windows and then I put Debian 10 on it for testing. And now, I am putting Debian 9 on it. Because just as I wasn’t prepared to have a valuable computer sitting there hardly being used for the few times I would need to run Windows, I can’t have…
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Windows 10 downgrade
When I started using Linux I did not know how successful a changeover to it could be. I set up a new computer at the beginning of this year to have Windows 10 on and deemed it worthwhile to have a PC in a space wasting tower case with new hardware to run Windows 10…
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More Debian
Since last writing the remaining Linux computers in the house have been changed over to Debian. As usual this has been a straightforward procedure, in the case of mediapc reconnecting the RAID array being as simple as it was on mainpc. All computers use XFCE as their desktop environment. There are now four computers in…
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Evolution and digiKam
UPDATE: Unfortunately in practice Evolution has turned out to be another poorly supported piece of open source software that is only getting minimal updates and bug fixes. It is not too much exaggeration to say its support for Imap resembles that of Outlook that it tries to emulate. As far as I can tell the…