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    Building a desktop for CLI use.

    Warning::Long winded intro. I moved exclusively to Linux back around the turn of the century, specifically when Red Hat 7 came out. It was the first that I found that could make a real desktop for general use. Windows (XP I assume) was abandoned forever except for a bit of below-mentioned...
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    Linux to I2C?

    Has anyone had any luck connecting an I2C device to Linux? Not talking about a Raspberry PI. That is very easy since I2C support is built in. Unfortunately, the PI is somewhat short on horsepower. With an old (Very old) pc with a parallel printer port it is no problem, since the legacy port...
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    Debian 12, problem with old systems and new monitors.

    Hardware Mac Pro (Trash Can) AMD Mac Pro (CheeseGrater) (2) Nvidia Homebuilt Rysen Tower No name video card I am installing Debian Bookworm on all four. As always, it installed fine on one of the old Mac Pros. And is working fine. I always install only an absolute minimum system (SSH...
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    Anybody using a Mac Pro 6.1 for Linux? (Trash Can Mac)

    I collect old (ancient, mostly) computers and someone gave me a really nice Trash Can Pro, i.e. Mac Pro 6.1 2013. It runs fine with Mojave but I have a far newer desktop for mundane stuff. It is very quiet and quite powerful and being Intel would make a fine Linux box. So I have tried it...
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    Need a Perl Guru.

    GURU = Anyone who knows more than me. i.e. almost everyone. I am making good progress in learning Perl, but am stuck on an item that I can't seem to find in the Mastering Perl books. (Or more likely, don't recognize.) I am doing I/O projects on a PI 4, using the GPIO for all kinds of...
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    Linux plus Pro XDR display?

    I read where (allegedly) a package was built for windows that can set the controls for the Apple Pro XDR display. Thus far, the display worked on windows, but if any parameter needed to be changed, it had to be hooked up to a Mac again. This is third party info, as I haven't used any windows...
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    A Perl Maven

    I started Linux back when Slackware was one of the top distros, downloaded onto floppies with each disk holding a piece - kernel, network, utilities, etc. (And received on a 26k dialup line, no less - jeeze, times have changed!) I didn't really switch over until Red Hat 7.0, which IMO was the...
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