Subj : Remmina RDP
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sat May 11 2024 07:04:00


Hi Mike!

 > Saw those.  I'll admit to be resistng using a variety of operating
 > systems as just gets too confusing for me.  I tend to use the computer
 > as templates of each other.
 MP> I used to experiment a lot with different OSes but have pretty
 MP> much settled now on one -- debian linux -- and a few of its close
 MP> derivatives.  For example, I have two raspberry pis and they are
 MP> running Raspbian, which is a debian derivative made specifically
 MP> for them that pretty much works just the same.

I'm quite sure you and I could switch between various OSs if we needed 
to -- the key being 'needed to'.  For me just easier -- actually was 
sort of the reason I got started with Ubuntu: at the time was using 
Mythbuntu for recording TV shows and Windows XP for my other computing 
needs.  Windows kept 'demanding' money for upgrades -- ended up hardware
as well as software -- and to understand the Ubuntu part of Mythbuntu I 
sort of needed a 'play' machine to experiment with without screwing up 
my primary machine.


 MP> I do have a couple of machines that are old enough that they
 MP> either lack memory or more than two cores, and I run devuan on
 MP> them.  That is another debian derivative that doesn't include
 MP> systemd.  It seems to be a little less memory intensive than
 MP> debian proper.
 
I'm using a few around 25 year old machines as Frontends for playback of
the recorded shows.  Did swap the hard drive to a SSD and max out the
RAM if I hadn't already.  I know a couple of the machines that max is 8
GB.  Zip right along!  ...One machine for certain has reached it's
maximum OS: will run Ubuntu 20.04 but not 22.04.


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