Subj : Re: Remmina RDP
To   : KY MOFFET
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue May 14 2024 08:48:00

> > I have tried it other times in the past and that is always the same
> > story... I can get it installed and working until it is time for a version
> > upgrade.  I have never had a version upgrade that resulted in a working
> > machine afterwards.

> With the SBC or linux in general?

Ubuntu on any machine, SBC or PC.  The upgrade always leaves the system
in question unusable.

> Used to be until about 7-8 years ago you could COUNT on doing a full
> reinstall, because version upgrade almost never worked, and sometimes
> updates didn't work either. Since I regard reinstalling as a mortal sin,
> this was a total dealbreaker for me. But it's been a lot better since:

Same here.  I can remember needing to do the full reinstall, but have not
had to do that with debian (or devuan) in quite a while... well, except for
when I accidentally ran a machine out of space.  ;)

> Devuan wasn't quite right after the most recent update (not upgrade).
> Don't recall quite what, like it messed up some of my visual settings or
> something. Not a regular use setup so didn't much care, I'll probably
> just redo it from scratch and hope they've fixed whatever.

I use Devuan on two machines.  One is a PC that I do use the GUI on.  That
machine has always had a quirk where, every so often, the screen will just
disappear and the machine requires a reboot.  Do you remember ever trying
to load a GIF or other graphics on an XT and having it not work?  That is
what the screen will suddenly look like... a big mess.  ;)

It does that no matter what distro is running on it so I figure it is
something wrong with the box itself.

On the other machine, I do not have the GUI installed and use the cli only.
 I find it works well in that situation.

I tried installing it on a third machine that I wanted to use the GUI on
and wound up installing debian instead after some goofy things happened
(forget what now).

> PCLOS is rolling so there is no such thing as upgrade, and updates are
> continuous. Occasional minor glitches but overall I find I prefer
> rolling... problems get fixed a LOT faster. Synaptic is ugly but it
> works really nice for updates.

Does PCLOS have a cli install program, like apt or ???

> > That SBC now runs debian proper just fine.

> That should be true for any hardware that "requires" some downstream
> distro. Frex, if it wants Ubuntu, there's no reason it can't run
> Debian... so long as it's compiled for that CPU.

I *think* the part that may not work, but that I don't use on this one, is
the 40-pin whatchamacallit.  I think the maintainers only make that code
available to ubuntu.  Since I don't use that bit, debian works just fine
and I suspect if I wanted to use that bit I could find the code and compile
it.

Mike


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