Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
From:    Gamgee
Date:    Fri Jun 28, 2024 22:30

@VIA: PALANTIR
-=> Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-

 >  ne> Ubuntu, it just works. Everyone should use it.

 > Well.... it works for some.  Certainly not everyone.  :-)

 DW> Ubuntu worked fine here, until I tried to upgrade to the next release.
 DW> Anytime I have tried to upgrade to the next release, on any machine,
 DW> it bricks the machine until I freshly install something else on it
 DW> (usually Debian).

Interesting - I haven't heard of that happening.  I've not used Ubuntu for
more than a few minutes at a time, and not long enough to upgrade it.

 DW> Debian, the distro that Ubuntu is derived from, does not give me that
DW> issue.  It just works.  Devuan, another Debian derivative, also does
 DW> not give me that issue (although I have found on some hardware it is
 DW> better to install it as a cli-only OS).

I need to give that Devuan a look one of these days.  Debian without 'systemd',
sounds like a winner.  I've been a Slackware user for a couple of decades, and
still am, mostly; although I'm starting to use MX Linux on a few machines,
including this new Framework laptop I'm on now.  Really like it a lot, it's
anotherDebian descendant without systemd.



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