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techore
Thank you, Brian.
Narrowed the bug down to the antiX 4.9 kernel and SIGRTMIN. Upgrading to 5.10 fixed the issue. Bug avoided if not squashed.
Enjoy your time with the wife. I’ll be doing the same and baking with my son.
Brian Masinick
seaken64
Hi Brian,
I’ve been doing the same, going thru several of my distros and updating/upgrading. Been working with some of my older kit the last few days so mostly working with antiX right now.
The machine I am on the forum with now is a laptop I bought myself from a local Circuit City and came with Windows XP SP2. After XP upgraded to SP3 it slowed to a crawl and became a real dog. I experimented with Linux and ended up installing antiX-16 after upgrading the ram to the max this machine could use, 480MB. (512 installed but the video subsystem takes some of the ram and leaves this machine with only 480MB). AntiX-16 gave this machine new life. I also re-installed XP SP2 and froze it at SP2. XP worked better again but now I had found antiX and XP got left behind.
I installed antiX-17, then antiX-19 Full and Core, running them all in a multi-boot grub setup.
Today I upgraded antiX-17, then both antiX-19 Full and Core. But since antiX-17 is about to lose support I decided to try to upgrade to antiX-22 32-bit Full. I wasn’t sure it would work on this old machine since it has an old VIA S3 graphics chip. But when I booted the Live USB it worked fine. The graphics were setup with the OpenChrome drivers automatically. The Kernel is 4.9.0-326. The WiFi was also supported OOTB. All I had to do was set it up with Ceni and my password for the LAN router. I was shocked that it works just as well as antiX-17 and antiX-19.
This has always been one of my favorite machines. It is larger than a Netbook but lighter and smaller than other laptops I had at the time. (I had one Dell Inspiron that was way too heavy to be a “laptop”). So, I ma happy this machine is working so well with antiX-22. Of course, with only 480MB RAM I can only do one thing at a time. But I am browsing with SeaMonkey and on the forum right now with this forum message. Pretty good for this single-core laptop from 2006.
Seaken64
inxi -zv7 System: Kernel: 4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.2.2 dm: slimski v: 1.5.0 Distro: antiX-22_386-full Grup Yorum 18 October 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Machine: Type: Portable System: Gateway product: MX3210 v: 73.03 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 8 serial: <superuser required> Mobo: Gateway model: N/A v: Rev1.73.03 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Phoenix v: 73.03 date: 01/06/2006 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.9 Wh (99.1%) condition: 21.1/48.8 Wh (43.2%) volts: 12.6 min: 11.1 model: Gateway W32044L type: Unknown serial: <filter> status: charging Memory: RAM: total: 429 MiB used: 283 MiB (66.0%) RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. CPU: Info: single core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 arch: M Dothan rev: 8 cache: 1024 KiB note: check Speed (MHz): 1397 min/max: N/A core: 1: 1397 bogomips: 2793 Flags: acpi apic bts clflush cmov cx8 de dts fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pae pbe pge pse sep ss sse sse2 tm tsc vme Graphics: Device-1: VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] vendor: Gateway driver: N/A bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1106:3344 class-ID: 0300 Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: openchrome unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: N/A display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x203mm (13.31x7.99") s-diag: 394mm (15.52") Monitor-1: FP-1 res: 1280x768 hz: 60 size: N/A modes: N/A OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio vendor: Gateway driver: snd_via82xx v: kernel bus-ID: 00:11.5 chip-ID: 1106:3059 class-ID: 0401 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp running: yes Network: Device-1: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A bus-ID: 00:0e.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4318 class-ID: 0280 Device-2: VIA VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II] vendor: Gateway driver: via-rhine v: N/A port: 1800 bus-ID: 00:12.0 chip-ID: 1106:3065 class-ID: 0200 IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic scope: global broadcast: <filter> IP v6: <filter> scope: link WAN IP: <filter> Bluetooth: Message: No bluetooth data found. Logical: Message: No logical block device data found. RAID: Message: No RAID data found. Drives: Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 4.37 GiB (11.7%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS424040M9AT00 size: 37.26 GiB speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: A71A scheme: MBR Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TSSTcorp model: CDW/DVD TS-L462C rev: GA03 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw state: running Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.68 GiB used: 4.33 GiB (56.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 label: rootantiX22 uuid: 948c89b0-b5a4-45cd-a83e-86e153c0609d Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 896 MiB used: 40.9 MiB (4.6%) priority: -1 dev: /dev/sda5 label: N/A uuid: 5686fe9c-3557-4dba-8da4-9de196cbd48d Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 14.7 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: B8CC161FF4974A14 ID-2: /dev/sda2 size: 1 KiB fs: <superuser required> label: N/A uuid: N/A ID-3: /dev/sda3 size: 5.94 GiB fs: ext4 label: antiX-Frugal uuid: d1491443-0a8f-4633-ac5a-301bc3de196f ID-4: /dev/sda7 size: 7.84 GiB fs: ext4 label: rootantiX19 uuid: 663c72e5-72d4-488e-a583-7f30e0b9b552 USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 132 Uptime: 1h 31m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1586 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.19Brian Masinick
I tried experimenting with a few of the BobC images; unfortunately I didn’t have success with any of them.
I’m kinda sad that my Acer Aspire 5 A515-55 experience ended poorly. Prior to the firmware issues it was a really responsive system at a reasonable price.
I have two other Acer Chromebook systems (one for me and another for my wife and we’ve been very happy with them.
My Dell Inspiron 5558 and my old Gateway 17″ PA6A system were similar in their rugged construction and heavy weight. I used to call the Gateway my portable system. I could move it around and it was very reliable but “laptop” was not the right word to describe it: portable desktop was more like it. The Dell is better but it’s pretty heavy too.
As for the HP it’s light so it’s a convenient laptop but it doesn’t have a very good keyboard.
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Brian MasinickBrian Masinick
Checking forum messages with my Google Pixel 6A this morning.
This unit does use a 5.10 Android 13 Linux kernel. The graphical user interface and the majority of the tools are NOT Linux nor is the overall system “GNU” in any way but there are a few freely reusable components.
Though we have a wide variety of preferences and opinions about such things I’m at least grateful that SOME of the software, the kernel in particular, is shared.
Long ago, back when I was doing graduate software studies I advocated sharing certain things even between otherwise proprietary systems. Stuff like firmware and kernels, stuff that’s needed on every system, at least as long as computer systems use the current methods, why not share the stuff that is common and differentiate in other ways with preferences, appearance and apps for particular interests and categories of use?
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Brian MasinickBrian Masinick
“Full” listing from the graphical information tool. [equivalent to inxi -zv8]:
System: Kernel: 6.0.11-x64v3-xanmod1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.0.11-x64v3-xanmod1 root=UUID=e1d85e10-a42a-4ed5-a98e-c860607e6910 ro quiet selinux=0 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.2.2 vt: 4 dm: slimski v: 1.5.0 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> Chassis: type: 10 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 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: not charging Memory: RAM: total: 7.1 GiB used: 1.56 GiB (22.0%) RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. CPU: Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 3 level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x8608103 Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 3276 high: 4056 min/max: 400/4056 boost: enabled scaling: driver: amd-pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 2062 2: 4056 3: 2217 4: 4056 5: 4056 6: 4056 7: 2505 8: 2072 9: 2071 10: 4056 11: 4056 12: 4056 bogomips: 50307 Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cppc cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected Type: l1tf status: Not affected Type: mds status: Not affected Type: meltdown status: Not affected Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected Type: srbds status: Not affected Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected Graphics: Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5.1 code: Vega-2 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2018-21 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300 temp: 40.0 C Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b6f1 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93") Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1429 built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0.592 y: 0.349 green: x: 0.329 y: 0.557 blue: x: 0.153 y: 0.118 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329 size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81") diag: 354mm (13.9") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080, 1680x1050, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1280x800, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480 EDID-Warnings: 1: parse_edid: unknown flag 2 API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.48.0 6.0.11-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 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x,snd_pci_acp6x,snd_acp_pci,snd_rpl_pci_acp6x,snd_sof_amd_renoir pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 Sound API: ALSA v: k6.0.11-x64v3-xanmod1 running: yes Network: Device-1: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw89_8852ae v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:a85a class-ID: 0280 IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> IP v6: <filter> scope: link WAN IP: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0bda:385a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 7644 hci-v: 5.2 rev: d99a Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park link-mode: slave accept Logical: Message: No logical block device data found. RAID: Message: No RAID data found. Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 33.69 GiB (14.1%) SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Toshiba model: KBG40ZNV256G KIOXIA size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HP00AE00 temp: 29.9 C scheme: GPT Message: No optical or floppy data found. Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 48.83 GiB size: 47.76 GiB (97.81%) used: 33.65 GiB (70.5%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: rootantiX21 uuid: e1d85e10-a42a-4ed5-a98e-c860607e6910 ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) used: 42.4 MiB (16.5%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: SYSTEM uuid: 669B-9111 Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 label: N/A uuid: d5ee9225-6bf8-4ea5-9299-547b7272c289 Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 48.83 GiB fs: ext4 label: rootMX21 uuid: 38ddb821-0501-4d8a-9266-fb61ab327075 ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 48.83 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A uuid: e346e37f-8388-4c6c-b17e-b6ecec4b9547 ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 size: 48.83 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A uuid: f4d82c2c-b2d1-4708-a9ca-3e777c72924e ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7 size: 35.09 GiB fs: ext4 label: siduction uuid: e8534128-4ce0-4849-8fc8-4d2a50d8d3e2 USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b6f1 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> Device-2: 1-4:3 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:385a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 3-2:2 info: KYE Systems (Mouse Systems) Trackbar Emotion type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0458:0007 class-ID: 0301 Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 44.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 41.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0 Repos: Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1761 libs: 825 tools: apt,apt-get,synaptic Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list 1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free 2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/liquorix.list 1: deb https://liquorix.net/debian bullseye main 2: deb-src https://liquorix.net/debian bullseye main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list 1: deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi-snapshot.list 1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/snapshot/deb/ stable main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xanmod-kernel.list 1: deb http://deb.xanmod.org releases main Processes: CPU top: 5 of 284 1: cpu: 13.6% command: firefox-bin pid: 17475 mem: 546.1 MiB (7.5%) 2: cpu: 8.1% command: firefox-bin pid: 17871 mem: 332.9 MiB (4.5%) 3: cpu: 4.0% command: firefox-bin pid: 25761 mem: 269.0 MiB (3.6%) 4: cpu: 2.6% command: xorg pid: 1993 mem: 88.3 MiB (1.2%) 5: cpu: 1.7% command: firefox-bin pid: 17689 mem: 135.3 MiB (1.8%) Memory top: 5 of 284 1: mem: 546.1 MiB (7.5%) command: firefox-bin pid: 17475 cpu: 13.6% 2: mem: 332.9 MiB (4.5%) command: firefox-bin pid: 17871 cpu: 8.1% 3: mem: 269.0 MiB (3.6%) command: firefox-bin pid: 25761 cpu: 4.0% 4: mem: 135.9 MiB (1.8%) command: firefox-bin pid: 17707 cpu: 0.1% 5: mem: 135.3 MiB (1.8%) command: firefox-bin pid: 17689 cpu: 1.7% Info: Processes: 284 Uptime: 35m wakeups: 360 Init: runit v: N/A runlevel: 2 tool: service Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: IceWM v: 3.2.2 default: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: icewm inxi: 3.3.23--
Brian MasinickBrian Masinick
antiX with the basic information listing today:
inxi -b System: Host: brian-antix-hp-14fq1025nr Kernel: 6.0.11-x64v3-xanmod1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.2.2 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: 3402 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 6.0.11-x64v3-xanmod1 LLVM 11.0.1) Network: Device-1: Realtek driver: rtw89_8852ae Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 33.72 GiB (14.1%) Info: Processes: 260 Uptime: 26m Memory: 7.1 GiB used: 584.8 MiB (8.0%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.23--
Brian Masinicktechore
On Asus N705U using antiX 22 dwm spin beta1, drinking coffee, and working through the creation of a control center in preparation for beta2. Hoping to get this done this year, but it is taking longer than expected. Isn’t that usually the case?
inxi -v3xz
System: Kernel: 5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: dwm v: 6.4 dm: startx Distro: antiX-22-runit_x64-core Grup Yorum 18 October 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X705UDR v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X705UDR v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: X705UDR.317 date: 04/17/2019 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.8 Wh (98.9%) condition: 46.3/42.1 Wh (110.0%) volts: 11.5 min: 11.5 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery serial: N/A status: not charging CPU: Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 3917 high: 4001 min/max: 400/4000 cores: 1: 3913 2: 3742 3: 3897 4: 3913 5: 3967 6: 4001 7: 3950 8: 3958 bogomips: 31999 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: N/A arch: Pascal pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c8d Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 13d3:5a01 Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> Device-2: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter vendor: AzureWave driver: rtw_8822be v: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: c000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b822 IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 7.89 GiB (0.7%) Info: Processes: 198 Uptime: 41m Memory: 15.52 GiB used: 2.62 GiB (16.9%) Init: runit v: N/A runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1201 Shell: fish v: 3.1.2 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.19Brian Masinick
Software tasks taking “longer than expected” is frequently the norm because task estimation unless extremely rigorous is highly inaccurate and efforts take longer than expected for many different reasons – competing tasks, missing steps in task estimation, learning curve to perform the tasks, and other known or unknown reasons.
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Brian Masinicktechore
Software tasks taking “longer than expected” is frequently the norm
I was giving a project manager an estimated time to completion for a task and commented “I am horrible on giving estimates, so I would recommend multiplying by 200%.” The project manager laughed then stated “techore, I multiple all your estimates by 300%.” It hurt to hear, but she was a good project manager.
Brian Masinick
Here’s the “real deal”: it’s possible to get decent estimates, but in order to actually obtain accurate estimates, it is necessary to dig pretty close to actual development; in other words, you have to come up with, first, the high level details, kind of the box for each item – the “what”, in other words, a list of features. This can provide a very rough estimate.
From there, it’s important to subdivide that, first into more detail, then into the HOW do you do it. This can provide a somewhat more detailed estimate.
If you produce some designs from there, you can get a very detailed estimate and you ought to be able to get a solid estimate at that point, which varies by any details the design fails to identify, unplanned project interruptions, and the level of experience of the participants. These can be estimated based on the performance of previous projects to come up with a reasonable pre-development estimate.If you work in weekly “sprints”, you certainly ought to be able to fit relevant components into that time interval. Any “extras” can be defined and placed into later sprints, and then the project schedule can be updated accordingly or the deliverables can be adjusted. Is that anything like the activities your team performs?
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Brian Masinicktechore
All true and I agree, but that particular organization’s IT and Project Management didn’t have that level of maturity. In addition, I and the project IT/Security SMEs were operational personnel not dedicated project personnel for an emergency response organization.
I always felt bad for the project managers. They had a tough job.
Brian Masinick
I have a story to tell about such things.
About twelve years ago now, I was hired into a small local business, which was an auto distributor, primarily selling and leasing, with emphasis on their leasing and service offerings.
They were in the process of purchasing, customizing, and using a custom leasing system.
Knowing very little about the specifics, though I’ve worked in computer organizations, automotive organizations, and software development organizations, I did know a few things:
Here’s what I did: I leveraged what each department knew and had expertise in. So what I did was conduct a series of interviews, and I literally started at the top, with those high level descriptions. I asked each team to provide me with a one sentence description of each function their team performed. The intention was to develop functions, features, and the ability to develop and test the new system with every aspect of their job.
I knew NOTHING about these specifics; they knew nothing about testing or coming up with this plan. What I did well was find a common ground to describe and ultimately create tests for each departmental function.
After getting one line descriptions, I went back to each team and had them carefully break down each high level description to a list of steps needed to perform the functions.
Once we had that second level of steps, we then wrote test steps which included any data required to manage the details – and in fact, there was a lot of that, which deeply related to the specific leasing capabilities they offered and the mechanisms they needed to make sure that the new leasing system could functionally provide the same service, yet be developed and supported by the company that was producing and customizing their product for this local company.
As long as you have people who each know their lines of work, and you can identify acronyms and specific, local features and map them into what is available, it’s possible to use each person’s skills and expertise. Whenever something can’t be understood by all, it’s important to get together and describe it three ways – in the way that the customer understands, in the way that the vendor understands, and in a common, intermediate set of terms that can be mutually exchanged to map or translate different words and understandings and create a common, unified solution.
There’s a lot in this story that can apply to technical work in general; when we cannot otherwise solve it, we can get an intelligent group of people together, find some words and meanings we all understand and combine them into efforts that we can collectively use together. I think that we do this well most of the time with our antiX effort. It’s very important to be clear, important to put aside personal preferences and differences, respect one another and find common solutions.
We’ll never agree in every area; we have different personal, political, ethical, even religious differences; what we can agree upon is that we want to have efficient software that works really well on old equipment. We’ve seen, even recently, different approaches on which window managers and desktop environments to use. I don’t think we have to agree about those things; I think the overall infrastructure can provide enough commonality that we can individually choose whatever components we want to create the systems that work best for each of us. So even in spite of sharp differences in some area, I continue to appeal to everyone to cooperate to the extent that what we end up with works for each of us – even with different desktops, window managers, tools, and our favorite pieces. Everyone who has been here has something of interest, despite the diversity.
So I maintain it’s possible to specify, dream, create, modify, and customize. From the tools we offer, either straight from antiX, indirectly from Debian, or from a wide variety of software sources, even some that don’t necessarily originate with Linux – as long as they can and are built on a Linux system and can be built on antiX, it CAN be done!
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Brian MasinickBrian Masinick
I have the following distributions on my newest computer, the HP-14:
antiX-21-runit Grup Yorum (using runit) with antiX 22 software updates and IceWM
MX 21.2.1 Wildflower AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) with Xfce desktop
PCLinuxOS 2022 with Xfce desktop
openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop
siduction 2021.3.0 wintersky GNU/Linux with Xfce desktop
siduction 2021.3.0 wintersky GNU/LinuxThese provide me with plenty of diversity; I have several window managers I can use with antiX, I have two desktop environments that I’m using across the other systems, and the ability on a couple of them to change desktop environments, experiment with others as time and interest permit and try different software.
Frankly there’s much more *available* than I can possibly use, but having these diverse distributions available allows me to use the different distros for what each do well.
I used to maintain 10-12 distributions on a SINGLE computer; I don’t do that any more, but I still have removable USB drives, CD and DVD for old stuff, and different computers to occasionally test and evaluate more different systems. I’m retired now so I don’t do anywhere near as much as I did in the past, but I still try to keep an eye out, and in particular offer thoughts, ideas, and assistance here when I’m able to do so.--
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