What are you “here” with today?

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Yup.

This recent system cost a few bucks but it is actually a low-midrange unit so for a recently retired software professional it wasn’t too much. I understand not everyone is able to afford new ones; I won’t be able to get many more, at least not often and they won’t be high end systems!

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Using pinxi today to share my usual information; here with antiX on my HP-14, my “newest” equipment:

pinxi -b
System:
  Host: brian-antix-hp-14fq1025nr Kernel: 6.0.8-x64v3-xanmod1 arch: x86_64
    bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.2.0 Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum
    30 October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-fq1xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 887C v: 59.11 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
    v: F.18 date: 11/26/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (99.8%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%)
CPU:
  Info: 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 3759 min/max: 400/4056
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.48.0
    6.0.8-x64v3-xanmod1 LLVM 11.0.1)
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek driver: rtw89_8852ae
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 29.95 GiB (12.6%)
Info:
  Processes: 255 Uptime: 27m Memory: 7.1 GiB used: 1.05 GiB (14.7%)
  Shell: Bash pinxi: 3.3.23-5

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The “Weather with Brian”: we generally have quite a few sunny days here, but today it is rather grey, chilly and rainy in the “Upstate region” of South Carolina:

NWS Forecast for: Travelers Rest SC
Issued by: National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Last Update: 11:20 am EST Nov 15, 2022

This Afternoon: Rain. Patchy fog. High near 45. Northeast wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Currently it is 41 degrees Fahrenheit as recorded at the “Sunny Acres” Wunderground (unofficial) weather tracking station a few miles from my home.
“Elev 1115 ft, 34.98 °N, 82.44 °W”, 2:49 PM EST on November 15, 2022 (GMT -5) | Updated 2 minutes ago

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For anyone reading, inxi -Fxz provides a fairly complete overall status on your system, inxi -b provides a fairly short summary of the system and there are information levels 1-8 that produce increasing levels of detail.

The inxi command also has help with the options and capabilities of the tool that can be explored.

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Look at https://techpatterns.com/forums/index.php

For information about several useful tools

https://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-33.html may get you closer to specific details; feel free to look around. My pal h2 is the expert here!

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https://techpatterns.com/forums/about1133.html

More info! 🙂

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My only caution about the last link, and h2 will tell you the same thing, is that a lot of the information in the last link, while potentially of some use, is nevertheless years old and dated; the tool itself is frequently updated.

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Running live antiX 21 full iso live usb on my Kali Linux Dell P22 chromebook.

I broke Kali deleting my /swap partition and the grow part threw errors since I tried it while running. Duh. Forgot.
Using antiX gparted right now to fix kali corrupted partition installation that won’t boot anymore.
Nice the live iso booted right up with no hiccups.
Curiosity is the only reason that kept Kali on here. I will probably give in and make this a antiX 22 chromebook later on.
Am curious to see if my gparted fix is gonna work.

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Yeah, it’ll be a good thing to display antiX working on a repurposed Chromebook!👍💡🌞✅

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RE: “Firefox journey”: “You’ve just been upgraded to Firefox Nightly 109!”

I mentioned earlier today in the Firefox Release thread that all of the variations of the Firefox Web Browser were due to be updated today, and this now accounts for the ones I most often use.

Version number listed in the “About Nightly” is now 109.0a1 (2022-11-15) (64-bit).

As for some of the inxi options, here are a few (but not ALL) options; use inxi –help to read about the current options you choose to use.

-F Show Fuller output for inxi. Triggers all uppercase line options as well as -s and -n.
-G Show Graphic card information (card, x type, resolution, glx renderer, version).
-z Adds security filters for IP addresses, Mac, and user home directory name.
-v Script verbosity levels. Verbosity level number is required.
Supported levels: 0-6 Example: inxi -v 4
0 – Short output, same as: inxi
1 – Basic verbose, like old -d basic. -S -C -G -D (basic form) -I
2 – Adds networking card (-N), Machine (-M) data, and shows basic hard disk data (names only). Same as: inxi -b
3 – Adds advanced CPU (-C), network (-n) data, and switches on -x advanced data option.
4 – Adds partition size/filled data (-P) for (if present):/, /home, /var/, /boot
Shows full disk data (-D)
5 – Adds audio card (-A); sensors (-s), partion label (-l) and UUID (-u).
6 – Adds full partition data (-p), unmounted partition data (-o), cd/dvd data (-d).
-x Show extra data
Additional Options:
-h –help This help menu.
-H This help menu, plus developer options.

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I’m “out and about” today.

I did get a little time on my newest system this morning; most of it was spent updating software on the several distributions I have installed, including antiX.

I’m providing “senior citizens” transportation back from an appointment early this afternoon and I have a monthly resident community meeting mid afternoon, plus my wife and I are going to her brother’s house this evening to watch our nephew while they go to the theater!

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Made it back in time to “check back in” and update my daily information on my newest hardware that runs antiX:

pinxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.0.8-x64v3-xanmod1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    Desktop: IceWM v: 3.2.0 Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum 30
    October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-fq1xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 887C v: 59.11 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
    v: F.18 date: 11/26/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (99.8%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.8 min: 11.3 model: HP Primary status: not charging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3393 high: 4056 min/max: 400/4056 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 4056 2: 2070 3: 4056 4: 4056 5: 4056 6: 2070 7: 4056 8: 4056 9: 2068
    10: 2071 11: 4056 12: 4056 bogomips: 50305
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: GCN-5.1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 temp: 31.0 C
  Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-3:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.48.0
    6.0.8-x64v3-xanmod1 LLVM 11.0.1) direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.5
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.0.8-x64v3-xanmod1 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw89_8852ae v: kernel
    port: f000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-4:4
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: warning
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 30 GiB (12.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Toshiba model: KBG40ZNV256G KIOXIA
    size: 238.47 GiB temp: 17.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 47.76 GiB used: 29.92 GiB (62.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 72.9 MiB (28.5%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 33.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 31.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Processes: 264 Uptime: 1m Memory: 7.1 GiB used: 583.7 MiB (8.0%) Init: runit
  runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1747 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4
  pinxi: 3.3.23-5

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How DARE I? Today I’m sharing information about another distribution, though it’s probably one that several of us either use or have used; it’s called siduction, and it has frequently been among my collection of distributions for MANY years.

Historically, this distribution dates back to Kanotix; several people on the project worked with Kanotix when that project used Debian Sid packages. When that changed, quite a few on the team forked off a completely different distribution based on Debian Sid called sidux. That was one of the first great Debian Sid based distributions. After several years, disagreements arose and some people left, and others formed aptosid, which lasted a few years and it was renamed or reformed as siduction, which has survived ever since.

The siduction distribution is as close to sidux as anything I’ve seen over the past 15 years; it is solid, and despite a Debian Sid software base, it has been rock solid since I’ve returned to using it.

With that said, here is the basic information that I collected here today from the HP-14 where I also run antiX:

pinxi -b
System:
  Host: brian-hplaptop14fq1025nr Kernel: 6.0.9-1-siduction-amd64 arch: x86_64
    bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.1 Distro: siduction 21.3.0 Wintersky - xfce
    - (202112231826)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-fq1xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 887C v: 59.11 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
    v: F.18 date: 11/26/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (99.8%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%)
CPU:
  Info: 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 1409 min/max: 1400/4056
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.3 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM
    15.0.4 DRM 3.48 6.0.9-1-siduction-amd64)
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek driver: rtw89_8852ae
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 29.31 GiB (12.3%)
Info:
  Processes: 294 Uptime: 43m Memory: 7.11 GiB used: 2.02 GiB (28.4%)
  Shell: Bash pinxi: 3.3.23-5

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Incidentally in years past I created an antiX Core distribution with a Sid code base and a light-middle weight desktop consisting of reasonably efficient Xfce tools and desktop components. It worked very well, and the appearance, except for the wallpaper, was remarkably similar to what the team created when the MEPIS project ended and the MX Linux effort was conceived; the only main difference was that MX Linux stuck with stable sources and my implementation used a Sid base…

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harry@antix1:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.153-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.2.0 Distro: antiX-22_x64-full Grup Yorum 18
    October 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: GOOGLE product: Candy v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: GOOGLE model: Candy v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: coreboot v: MrChromebox-4.18.1 date: 10/27/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 42.2/44.5 Wh (94.9%)
    volts: 12.9 min: 11.4 model: Samsung DELL XK status: full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Celeron N2840 bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Silvermont rev: 8 cache: L1: 112 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2292 high: 2459 min/max: 500/2582 cores: 1: 2459 2: 2125
    bogomips: 8666
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
    driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-3:4
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: i965 gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (BYT)
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Sound API: ALSA v: k5.10.153-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
  Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-4:6
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 44.65 GiB used: 20.7 GiB (46.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 vendor: Hynix model: HAG2e size: 14.68 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: PNY model: USB 2.0 FD size: 29.97 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 13.36 GiB used: 7.09 GiB (53.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/mmcblk1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/mmcblk1p3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 140 Uptime: 22m Memory: 3.75 GiB used: 1.17 GiB (31.3%)
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1625 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.23

Suprise , suprise. Everything works now.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

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