libera/#devuan/ Wednesday, 2025-03-12

metalasystemdlete: I don't recall anything with such layout. VSCodium could do that I think. You can have a preview pane to a HTML source. From the old tools, I only recall wysiwyg komposer/nvu.01:07
systemdletehmm.  metala, did nvu go by another name at one point maybe?  That sounds vaguely familiar01:21
rrqckeditor ?01:25
metala(f)ckeditor is a web editor, not desktop app01:29
metalasystemdlete: 3 names - Mozilla Composer, Nvu, KompoZer01:30
freem<systemdlete> I recall a program I used to use that rendered html from text and v.v.   It was a desktop program with 2 windows.  One side had the html source and the other the rendering of the source.  You could edit the html text and it would render it in the other side, or you could use the controls on the other side, and it would update the html source on the other.  Something like that (my memmory is hazy now)01:39
freemamaya?01:39
freem(which was W3C's html wysiwig editor but is defunct)01:39
freemas for taking notes, I like vym, "view your mind". It's not html at all, but ... if the point is to keep track of things, I'd say that mind-mapper works nicely enough01:41
fsmithredZim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages.01:42
systemdleteactually, these are 2 different topics.  I am using elog to make notes.  But it has a wysiwyg editor, probably ckeditor or one of those you would find in a content management system like joomla!.01:43
fsmithred^^^ I've used zim for keeping notes01:43
freemI used to use zim as well :)01:43
freemwas good enough01:43
systemdleteWell, if any of these suggestions are still maintained and in the repos, I might just give them a try.  Thanks to all for your input.01:43
freemalso one could simply setup some scripting through inotifywait to run a markdown-to-html tool and render it, but that'd require to script webbrowsers to work *with* the system instead of against, something I have no idea how to do01:44
freemamaya is defunct01:44
freemvym and zim are still maintained I think. I don't know for the other suggestions.01:44
fsmithredzim still exists01:44
fsmithredI see zim in excalibur/ceres01:45
fsmithredif you want to edit html pages, I recommend a plain text editor.01:45
fsmithredanything that does the html for you will likely screw itup01:46
systemdleteso you can just guess (in your head) what the output will look like?01:46
fsmithredopen file in several different web browsers to make sure it works01:46
fsmithredafter you run it through the w3c page to find all your errors01:46
systemdleteI enjoyed being able to go back and forth between the source and the rendered output, and edit either one knowing the other would be updated automatically01:47
systemdleteacctualy, I think this thing had a html checker, but it was prob for html4 (I'm talking probably around 15-20 years ago...)01:47
freemI remember really enjoying amaya for this, but that tool would not take control out of your hands. W3C stopped maintaining it when they started HTML5 though.01:47
systemdletefreem, yes.  It did not take control away, and it was very true to whatever changes you made.01:48
freemhttps://www.w3.org/Amaya/01:48
freemLast Release Amaya 11.4.4 (18 January 2012). It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, many CSS 2 features, and SVG.01:48
freemI remember I discovered that _zero_ web browser was conform back then because none would render correctly a svg containing html, except for opera... was it 10? or 11?01:49
* Xenguy remembers amaya (and AOLserver, if I have the name right) ...01:50
freemthat's around the moment I realized that, no, firefox is actually not good.01:50
freemwas*01:50
freemsince then I've learnt something worst: there's no good web browser anyway.01:50
freembut that's offtopic :p01:51
XenguyBut once you've written HTML for long enough, you really don't need WYSIWYG anymore, you know what any given code is going to look like01:51
XenguyOh, sorry, OT01:51
freemyeah, I drifted, sorry :)01:51
systemdleteagain, thanks to all01:51
freemyw01:51
XenguySometimes I forget or don't notice I'm not on #devuan-offtopic01:51
* systemdlete ended up starting his small table all over from scratch, which took less time than trying to find a tool to fix the problem...01:52
freemhonestly I'd strongly recommend zim or just markdown+$EDITOR for taking long notes, but I have found that it ended up in a giant mess after enough data gathered. Which is easier to sort out with vym, since you can just move and reparent the nodes (it's a graph, yes) around. And ofc, you can attach notes to them, too, but in my uses I only had a graph of ideas/information, that is actually faster to browse01:56
freemhtml is only good for web devs01:56
freem(since they need to master it and all that CSS mess for their dayjob anyway)01:57
* freem stops OT here though02:00
onefangLate to this party, I was out shopping.  Falkon web browser will automatically reload a HTML file if you change it and it's at file://whatever.  Even across several tabs.  I use that for my quick web work.03:59
Guest32could you please tell me whether you have rstudio in repo?16:36
debdogGuest32: not available. at least not with that exact name16:59
debdogthough there seems to be a package available for download: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/17:00
Guest32debdog the problem is devuan is not systemd19:27
Guest32:D19:27
Guest32there is kinda no distribution trying to do things19:29
Guest32ofc I could get rstudio from the aur on arch or from a broken nixos or from a debian where it will completly mess with the system19:30
Guest32:D19:30
Guest32or from a void linux of which I have no clue why it exist19:30
Guest32but at least they wasnt as retarded as chimera linux to just compile rstudio19:30
golinuxchimaera, perhaps?19:31
Guest32https://chimera-linux.org/ golinux I refered to this19:31
Guest32and I am sorry for this pessimistic view on linux that I shared19:33
Guest32it is just what I experienced19:33
Guest32maybe linux developer should go to freebsd and try to build bsd instead trying to make something work that doesnt work19:34
Guest32or maybe not maybe they will just destroy freebsd afterwards19:35
debdogGuest32: mayhap run debian inside a VM?19:46
Guest32on windows ? XD19:47
freemwhat is the problem with "just compile" exactly?19:58
djphfreem: "./configure; make; make install" is very hard.19:59
freemlol20:00
golinux<Guest32> It is not named chimera. It is spelled chimaera20:01
greenjeanslol20:02
greenjeansdeadalus20:02
greenjeansthat was my favorite20:02
freemfrom what I see in the DEBIAN/control file of the official archive, the debian 12 .deb have no reason to not work on a systemd-free system20:02
freem"Depends: libssl-dev, libclang-dev, libsqlite3-0, libxkbcommon-x11-0, libc6 (>= 2.7)"20:02
freemAFAIK none of those libs ever depended on systemd or dbus stuff20:03
freempostinst and postrm scripts also do not seem to contain anything nasty, except for the unrealted to systemd point of chrome-sandbox being mentionned20:04
freemGuest32: any reason why you do not use the official debian package provided by rstudio's devs?20:05
Guest32it is build on systemd20:05
freemI don't see anything suggesting that. Why do you say so?20:06
Guest32it is a binary20:06
freemI have not ran ldd on every binary in there, ofc, but if there was a problem in there, that'd imply a bug in the package system itself20:06
freemand?20:06
freemwhat's the relation between being a binary and systemd?20:06
freemFWIW I run shitload of binaries on my system without having systemd around :D20:07
freembtw, you can inspect what's inside a .deb by using "dpkg-deb -R foo.deb /tmp/some/folder/", no need to be root, it won't install anything, but it will extract both the file hierarchy and the metadata from the package. It's very useful.20:08
Guest32also I need newest kernel is the problem20:09
Guest32and newest mesa20:09
freemah, there *is* a bug in the package20:10
Guest32and I am currently not on devuan20:10
freemthe rstudio binary indeed is linked against libsystemd020:10
Guest32so linux is a failed project?20:12
freemso yeah, the official build won't work on devuan since IIRC devuan does not have libsystemd0 at all, not even a shim20:12
freemhuh20:12
freemnot really.20:12
Guest32everything is supposed to work on every distro or not20:13
Guest32otherwise they failed20:13
freemobviously not20:13
debdogGuest32: no, a VM on devuan hosting debian. install rstudio inside that VM, ssh (X11 forwarding enabled) into it then run rstudio. if that works it is seamless20:13
freemevery distro is it's own operating system20:13
freemlinux itself is NOT an OS, it's only a kernel.20:13
freemit have no relation AFAIK with systemd folks, neither20:14
Guest32I just saw that void compiled the rstudio against musl20:14
Guest32but I am feared to take void20:14
Guest32because of bugs20:14
Guest32lol20:14
Guest32same stuff like the nixos20:15
Guest32imo20:15
freemwhy do you expect bugs? I ran void-musl for few years, never had any problem20:15
freemI stopped using void because it's package manager is bad, though20:15
Guest32why you not using pacman then20:16
Guest32xd20:16
freembecause I'm not stupid?20:16
Guest32but pacman fast20:16
freemsorry, but arch is the only distro I've tried that failed to install xorg because of a circular dep20:16
freemI don't care about fast, I care about correctness and usefulness20:16
Guest32go freebsd20:17
freemif I'd pick a bsd, it would certainly not be freebsd. Probably more openbsd, because they don't have this crap of PAM20:18
Guest32I am a gamer and rstudio user20:18
Guest32lol20:18
Guest32anything else I dont care20:18
freemI'm a gamer too. I use vim to code, though20:18
freemand I have managed enough systems that required physically moving to fix problems when shit happens to know the value of a sane core system.20:19
Guest32but debian not good either20:20
Guest32you install some thirdparty on debian sid20:20
Guest32and kaboom20:20
Guest32apt broken20:20
Guest32:D20:20
freemusing sid is not exactly recommended to begineers20:20
Guest32I have to be on the bleeding edge since I use very recent hardware20:21
Guest32so anything below bleeding doesnt work20:21
freemI have used sid for a long while, though. Switched my system back and forth stable to unstable+experimental several times, when I was younger. Works like a charm... when you know what you do.20:21
freemthen use backports?20:21
Guest32debian too hard20:22
freemalso, if you're a dev, considering the dependencies of this tool, you probably can easily compile it and build a package for devuan20:22
Guest32I am not a dev20:22
Guest32:D20:22
Guest32O20:22
freemI see20:22
Guest32I just get cancer when I see bugs in journalctl20:22
freemI use debian without any systemd crap, since a decade or something20:23
freemand I'm also pretty certain that using systemd does NOT requires you to use journalctl20:23
Guest32ye but I looked there because ai told me and then I saw how much that shit is spamming, then I thought about my disk life20:24
Guest32then I got sad because of retards or journalctl20:24
Guest32:')20:25
Guest32I mean maybe gentoo is worth a try20:25
Guest32but how to even install that20:25
Guest32my cpu cant even compile20:25
freemI see lof of mentions they love open source, but no link to actual source code lol20:26
freema human trusting AI too much about bugs in journalctl is probably a pebcak type of bug20:27
freemah, finally: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio (but no link on the official website, sigh... also, github, for FOSS lovers? sigh...)20:28
freemin any case, trying to compile a whole OS to avoid compiling a single program? That's weird to me20:29
freemI'd just donwload a source tarball from their github, read https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/blob/main/INSTALL, install cmake, gcc and deps, do "cd rstudio; mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. && make && echo 'lets call that a day'"20:30
freemI have no reason to expect any problem in the build process that would be caused by a lack of systemd on the system20:31
freem(considering the little digging I did, it's likely libsystemd0 is only around because of some dep optionally relies on it, and since most distros integrate systemd those days anyway...)20:32
fsmithredfreem, libsystemd0 is not a banned package.20:32
freemit's not? So even better, Guest32 can just dpkg -i the package20:32
fsmithredand libelogind0 might satisfy the dep20:33
fsmithredor libelogind-compat - I'm not sure what that does.20:33
freemfsmithred: the declared deps in the DEBIAN/control file are those: "Depends: libssl-dev, libclang-dev, libsqlite3-0, libxkbcommon-x11-0, libc6 (>= 2.7)"20:33
fsmithredwhat's the name of the package in the repo?20:33
freemso I highly doubt elogind is needed :D20:34
freemit's not in any repo, upstream simply provide deb files for debian and ubuntu20:34
fsmithredok, I was thinking of trying a simulated install, but not if it's not in repo20:35
fsmithredall that r-clang stuff is not the main deal?20:35
fsmithredr-cran I meant20:36
fsmithredwhat comes up on 'apt-cache search rstudio'20:36
freemthe only package I could find with rstudio in the name in r-cran-rstudioapi, not the one Guest32 wants20:36
freemapparently it's just some API to integrate r-cran with rstudio20:37
freemrstudio being AGPL, and apparently embedding a server. I don't know R nor python (nor give a shit about those) so I can't tell more20:37
Guest32my pc would crash compiling something20:37
Guest32lol20:37
freemwhy that?20:38
Guest32i have i9 9700t20:38
freemand?20:38
Guest32that is igpu20:38
Guest32lol20:38
freemno relation20:38
Guest32it would crash I tried it once I think20:38
freemI'm a C++ dev, using "Intel(R) Pentium(R) Gold G5500 CPU @ 3.80GHz" much cheaper and probably older than yours, iGPU as well. I can compile everything just fine.20:38
Guest32why is devuan warning to use devuan?20:38
Guest32:D20:38
freemiGPU is, btw, for Graphics Processing Unit20:38
freemcompilation process does not usually use GPU20:39
Guest32daedalus is someone who got killed by the sun20:39
freemare you not confused with Icare?20:39
Guest32igpu is cpu and gpu both together in one20:40
freemyes, I know. And?20:40
Guest32I also have rx 7600 amd that is why I need bleeding edge20:40
freemanyway, I really think you should try to compile this yourself. If you have troubles doing so, I can help20:40
Guest32so I cant compile :D20:40
freemthere is no relation20:40
Guest32devuan is too outdated isnt it20:41
Guest32?20:41
freemcompilation process have NO RELATION with your graphics accelerator20:41
Guest32debian 12 is devuan20:41
Guest32very old20:41
freemwell, ping me if you really try to install this, instead of critisizing projects because of their main advantage: stability.20:41
freemI'll go back at fixing some maths bugs in a C++ game I'm modding20:42
Guest32how to get devuan excalibur20:42
freemwith my debian 12, systemd-less, and iGPU20:42
Guest32I have to change the source.list to change from deadalus to excalibur right??20:44
Guest32oh no20:44
Guest32or is there an iso20:46
Guest32freem what is the kernel of excalibur20:48
golinuxfreem: Why are systemd files present in Devuan?  https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=192520:50
golinux"libsystemd0 is used by some daemons to verify if systemd is running or not. If it's not, libsystemd is *totally* *harmless*."20:50
freemhttps://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=package&q=linux-image-amd64&x=submit20:50
freemgolinux: I know well what libsystemd0 is don't worry, but not being a devuan user right now, I could not tell for certain if that'd break or not. I also could not find it on the pkginfo.devuan.org tool20:51
freemah, they left20:52
freema R user is likely a scientist, but what is worth a scientist which can't RTFM?20:52
freemscientist or someone related to science stuff. Question still applies...20:53
golinuxofftopic20:53
freemanyway, guess I'm done20:53
freemyeah20:53
golinuxCompetence is difficult to find anywhere these days . . .20:54
golinux(more OT)20:54
Guest87It says sys Linux uefi bootloader booting devuan but it is not booting20:54
Guest87Maybe because secureboot ?21:00
Guest87Sheesh21:00
fsmithredGuest87, are you trying to boot an excalibur installer iso?21:02
Guest87@fsmirhred it had a weird error did not work21:25
Guest87Why is there no telegram channel21:29
fsmithredright. The excalibur isos have some problems. Someone is working on it.21:30
fsmithredbest bet is to install daedalus and then add backports kernel or maybe upgrade to excalibur, but it's still changing fast. It'll be like that until debian trixie goes into freeze. Which might be soon.21:33

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