August 2, 2019
Debian Buster (10) no Java 8 support
I installed Debian 10 onto X220 laptop and discovered that it's no official support for Java 8 according to debian mailing list. Also an installation of recommended PPA containing Java 8 which requires adding gpg keys via apt-key fails. Little disappointed by the keys shit. I'm looking for some other options, as Java 8 is critical for me and I really don't wanna mess up with unofficial openjdk builds.
This resembles me a lot this almost comedian video on how hard to describe the life of sysadmin to non-it people. Palm, palm, palm.
Video link
So no Debian 10 for my X220. Thinking about arch (used it for some years, with some luck of failing video drivers - I don't have a good feeling about it being on laptop) or centos (happy with it on server, not sure about client). Also maybe a Debian 9 is a logical choice as seems like it has Java 8 supported by default.
This resembles me a lot this almost comedian video on how hard to describe the life of sysadmin to non-it people. Palm, palm, palm.
Video link
So no Debian 10 for my X220. Thinking about arch (used it for some years, with some luck of failing video drivers - I don't have a good feeling about it being on laptop) or centos (happy with it on server, not sure about client). Also maybe a Debian 9 is a logical choice as seems like it has Java 8 supported by default.
Labels: arch, centos, debian, java, java 8, laptop, linux, openjdk, opensource, x220
April 12, 2017
Arch with mate: cannot lock screen with mate-screensaver, had to move to xscreensaver
I rarely pay much attention to opensource software bugs, but this regression is kind of severe as it touches security of desktop system.
I use Arch as desktop OS, with mate. After latest update pacman -Syu I noticed that I can lock screen only once after restart or so. It works like this: when selecting "Lock screen" from menu it just does nothing, and it's nothing also in .xsession-errors. So screen remains unlocked.
When I (maybe mistakenly) try to manually execute mate-screensaver it says like "screensaver is already running for this session".
So I took way of getting rid of mate-screensaver and installing and using xscreensaver instead (pacman -S xscreensaver). It works just fine.
I use Arch as desktop OS, with mate. After latest update pacman -Syu I noticed that I can lock screen only once after restart or so. It works like this: when selecting "Lock screen" from menu it just does nothing, and it's nothing also in .xsession-errors. So screen remains unlocked.
When I (maybe mistakenly) try to manually execute mate-screensaver it says like "screensaver is already running for this session".
So I took way of getting rid of mate-screensaver and installing and using xscreensaver instead (pacman -S xscreensaver). It works just fine.
Labels: arch, linux, mate, mate-scresnsaver, opensource, screensaver, xscreensaver
