[conspire] upgrade and grub

[Paul Zander]

Good comments Michael and Rick,
In a totally unrelated email group, someone made a posting denouncing the way people use 3 dots.  She was apparently unaware that it has been used for centuries and even had a name:  ellipsis from the Greek word for omission. 

I don't pretend to be an expert sysadmin, but I do know that adding things outside of the debian package system is prone to possible undefined risks and surprises.  Over time, more and more things that are expected to work with debian have been made into standard packages.

lxmed is only used to edit the lx menus.  Much better than using one favorite text editor to hack the files.  

Seamonkey,  Based totally on wishful thinking, I was confident that changes to debian libraries that effect Firefox will most likely also associated to Seamonkey.  I would hope that the Mozilla people have some common code between the two projects.   Just the same, it will easier to keep seamonkey up to date by adding the repository to my sources.list.   I primarily use seamonkey as HTML editor.  It is also a kind of handy when be able to open the same files with Firefox and verify that I have actually saved the changes ...
Rick is on the right track in associating 3D drawing with 3D printing.  Actually there are several layers of software in the process.  The first is making a drawing that can be viewed like a traditional drawing done with T-square and triangles.  The same program can typically create other view points, and lastly an output file in one of several formats used for the next step.
The next sofware step is to analyzes the desired shape into a format that describes that shapes sort of in the order that they will be need to be created.
Lastly is the software that actually drives the machine making the part.  Typically this is has the drivers for the specific motors, etc in a particular machine.

I'm trying to start at the beginning with how to design parts.  openscad has been in previous debian releases.  It is still in stable, but not in testing.  

http://www.openscad.org/downloads.html Has two suggestions.  One uses appimage.  The other is to create 

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/openscad.list  
with the following:
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Debian_9.0/ ./
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/Debian_Testing_standard/ ./

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