Subj : Re: headless Pi zero + NOIR Picam + Bookworm + motion
To   : nev young
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Fri Sep 27 2024 12:18:20

On 27/09/2024 11:24, nev young wrote:
> On 26/09/2024 21:13, druck wrote:
>> On 26/09/2024 09:50, nev young wrote:
>>> Resolved.
>>>
>>> I have simply reverted back to Buster using an SD card image I made
>>> last March.
>>>
>>> Everything works reliably again.
>>>
>>> (as long as I never run apt)!
>>>
>> Buster is very old,
> so am I :-) 71 next month.
>
> Bullseye is the predecessor to Bookworm, and is
>> still receiving updates.
> I was running Bullseye when the wifi started to fail.
> AFAICT there was something about wps being deprecated and replaced with
> nm. But the confs were not converted. Other reasons have also been
> given. I wasn't amused to have to pull 21 SD cards and re-flash them
> especially as quite a few require ladders and a team of 3 guys to do it
> under current H&S rules.
>
> So I'm sticking with and old, probably unsupported, o/s that just works.
>
> Reminds me of an old engineering saying.
> "If it's not broke, don't fix it" :-)
>

I have to agree. I have a version of something nasty from the woodshed*
of expired Linux distros running one Pi Zero...and its simply not
possible to add any new code to it as its repos are extinct.

Hence the development on a fresh PI with bookworm...

*Cold Comfort Farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZdcsfmpTHg

Apart from security, the only reason I have to upgrade is to get other
peoples new applications to run



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