Is it really really necessary to have a blank line between every text
line?

Ralph.

On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 02:19:15AM +0000, Erik Christiansen via Dng wrote:
> On 27.12.24 23:11, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> >   I'm considering migrating to Devuan after years on Gentoo.  Expect a
>
> > weird mix of expert and newbie questions from me.
>
> I have for a number of years and versions of Devuan used:
>
> > fetchmail
>
> > gcc             (Mostly avr-gcc & avr binutils)
>
> > geeqie          (I've swapped to xzgv.)
>
> $ apt-cache search geeqie
>
> geeqie - image viewer using GTK+
>
> geeqie-common - data files for Geeqie
>
> > gimp            (It's there, but I can't drive it.)
>
> > gnumeric
>
> $ apt-cache search gnumeric
>
> gir1.2-gnumeric - GObject introspection data for the Gnumeric spreadsheet
>
> gnumeric - spreadsheet application for GNOME - main program
>
> gnumeric-common - spreadsheet application for GNOME - common files
>
> gnumeric-doc - spreadsheet application for GNOME - documentation
>
> gnumeric-plugins-extra - spreadsheet application for GNOME - additional plugins
>
> ...
>
> > mupdf           (My muscle-memory is xpdf, though.)
>
> $ apt-cache search mupdf
>
> libmupdf-dev - development files for the MuPDF viewer
>
> mupdf - lightweight PDF viewer
>
> mupdf-tools - command line tools for the MuPDF viewer
>
> > mutt            (I use it with procmail & postfix.)
>
> > procmail
>
> ...
>
> > vim             (There's a law against not having it, ya know. ;)
>
> >
>
> > 4) Any selections/tweaks required at install time to get those apps?
>
> On any distro, it's always been necessary to do half a dozen
>
> "apt-get install xxx" after an "apt-cache search xxx" to browse
>
> offerings, I find.
>
> > 5) How many gigabytes of swap suggested for a 16-gigabyte ram machine
>
> > with "hibernate-script"?
>
> Despite more than three decades of *nix use, I'm not sure what hibernate
>
> does, or how it could be useful. I either shut down or not. (Maybe more
>
> defensible on 100% off-grid solar power?)
>
> Has Gentoo gone to the dark side? (systemd)
>
> Erik

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