[nmglug] Bullseye;

[Ted Pomeroy]

NMGLUGers,  in answering Leroy:
 I am just now reading the release notes thoroughly. In the main my Xfce
desktop is the same, with new artwork, an empty "Favorites" section of the
app menu that I am adding to, and some settings set to the new defaults
that I am re-tweaking. I have purged 'quodlibet' and 'exfalso' and
installed 'audacious' and 'streamtuner2': this to get music streams from
the Internet.
Importantly there is a syntax change in the Debian security line in
/etc/apt/sources.list. This is explained in the release notes on the Debian
wiki website
<https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/armel/release-notes/ch-information.en.html>,
and is due to apt syntax symbols.
As I have only had two days to explore and use the 32 bit laptop I cannot
give a wider view just yet. I did find that there are some special versions
of the installer and some unofficial versions include some firmware blobs
for hardware not covered by free drivers. I had decided to give up on
32-bit computing, but as Debian supports it, I will do some more exploring
on this. However, I have an even older laptop running Buster and since
there is about a year of support I will let it be and discard it or pass it
on at the end of a year if not sooner. The slowness of these machines and
lack ability to play streaming video makes them subpar for even an average
user.
Still it is fun to explore and I am happy with the upgrade so far. Thank
you, Ted P

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 9:44 AM Leroy Lints <dr.leroybrown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Ted,
>
> What are the changes to printing that you found? I am curious.
>
> Regards,
> Leroy
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2021-08-16 at 10:53 -0600, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
> > NMGLUGers, Bullseye is Debian 11. It was released last week and I
> > have already had a chance to upgrade a 32 bit machine and it runs
> > well. The laptop is circa 2010 with an Atom processor. Of course it
> > is a bit slow, but that is not surprising. Kernel 5.10 is working
> > well with this older laptop.
> > I have begun to read the release notes and will study them some more.
> > There are changes to printing which sound interesting, and some
> > comments about the systemd logs and journals.  I will have some more
> > time before our virtual meeting this Thursday to test the new
> > software and make some changes in my selection of applications for
> > various tasks.
> > Thank you, Ted P
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