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    A quick settings question on Debian 2.x

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
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      @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

      @DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol

      Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
        last edited by

        @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

        Wow debian 2.... I wonder what the reasoning there was for not upgrading......

        Like what could have occurred there....

        They forgot that the machine was there? No idea. That's up to 19 years old!!

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
          last edited by

          @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

          @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

          @DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol

          Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!

          17+ don't forget!

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          • art_of_shredA
            art_of_shred @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

            @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

            @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

            @DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol

            Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!

            17+ don't forget!

            No, this is a new build, maybe 4 months ago? I did a uname -a and got:

            3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux... so my initial thought was incorrect.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @art_of_shred
              last edited by

              @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

              @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

              @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

              @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

              @DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol

              Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!

              17+ don't forget!

              No, this is a new build, maybe 4 months ago? I did a uname -a and got:

              3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux... so my initial thought was incorrect.

              That just makes this topic insane.... why use something so old. . . .

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              • art_of_shredA
                art_of_shred @DustinB3403
                last edited by

                @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                @DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol

                Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!

                17+ don't forget!

                No, this is a new build, maybe 4 months ago? I did a uname -a and got:

                3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux... so my initial thought was incorrect.

                That just makes this topic insane.... why use something so old. . . .

                It's a machine dedicated to a wide-format printer. Nothing else. It's what their RIP software supports.

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                • wirestyle22W
                  wirestyle22
                  last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller would it be:

                  sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

                  autologin-user=YOURUSERNAME
                  autologin-user-timeout=0

                  To just automatically log in?

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @art_of_shred
                    last edited by

                    @art_of_shred I know I shouldn't ask.... but the software doesn't operate on a modern OS?

                    There is probably some debian 2 documentation somewhere but that is really stretching the envelope.

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                    • art_of_shredA
                      art_of_shred @wirestyle22
                      last edited by

                      @wirestyle22 that file doesn't exist. I just ran the sudo command and it opened a blank file.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        What desktop environment is this machine using?

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                        • art_of_shredA
                          art_of_shred @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                          What desktop environment is this machine using?

                          I don't understand the question

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                          • wirestyle22W
                            wirestyle22 @art_of_shred
                            last edited by

                            @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                            @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                            What desktop environment is this machine using?

                            I don't understand the question

                            Gnome, Unity, etc

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
                              last edited by

                              @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                              @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                              @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                              What desktop environment is this machine using?

                              I don't understand the question

                              Gnome, Unity, etc

                              Did anything like that exist on debian 2?

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                              • art_of_shredA
                                art_of_shred @wirestyle22
                                last edited by

                                @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                I don't understand the question

                                Gnome, Unity, etc

                                How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

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                                • wirestyle22W
                                  wirestyle22 @art_of_shred
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                                  @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                  I don't understand the question

                                  Gnome, Unity, etc

                                  How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

                                  Do you have a GUI?

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                                  • wirestyle22W
                                    wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                    @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                    @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                    What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                    I don't understand the question

                                    Gnome, Unity, etc

                                    Did anything like that exist on debian 2?

                                    he said "3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux... so my initial thought was incorrect."

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                                    • art_of_shredA
                                      art_of_shred @DustinB3403
                                      last edited by

                                      @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                      @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                      @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                      What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                      I don't understand the question

                                      Gnome, Unity, etc

                                      Did anything like that exist on debian 2?

                                      If you're paying attention, you'll see that I goofed and it's Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @art_of_shred
                                        last edited by

                                        @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                        What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                        I don't understand the question

                                        Debian is the OS. But the question here about sleep mode and logging in automatically are about the desktop environment that is running on top of Debian. Each desktop environment can be pretty unique so we have to know that to know where settings for it might be. For example in the Windows world... DOS 8 was the OS and Windows 98 was the desktop environment. As you can imagine, the majority of settings were part of the desktop environment, not the OS.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
                                          last edited by

                                          @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                          I don't understand the question

                                          Gnome, Unity, etc

                                          How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

                                          Do you have a GUI?

                                          It's a graphical desktop machine being discussed. It's just which GUI that we need to figure out.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @art_of_shred
                                            last edited by

                                            @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                            I don't understand the question

                                            Gnome, Unity, etc

                                            How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

                                            Normally it says when you go to log in. Can you log in now? What does it look like? Generally they are easy to eyeball.

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