Subj : Re: Downtime
To   : Arelor
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Fri Jun 18 2021 22:25:36

Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis:

A> Well, Slackware -current is not intended for production :-) Maybe the 
A> reason why I don't see
A> Slackware breackage is precisely that I use -stable more often than not...

I'd been running 14.2 for the longest time and then something just broke. 
The -current was a "hail mary" and an attempt to see if rebuilding MBSE
against -current would fix things.  Remember, I am not running a
"production" box ... it's alpha code most of the time that I write and test
on my live BBS.  In all the years I have run MBSE, it has not failed like
this so I immediately suspected the OS.

A> even though I don't use it much because I am no longer a hardcore fan of 
A> the Debian ecosystem.

I'm not a "hardcore fan" but it works and I haven't had any issues with it
for my needs.

A> that is not made to be portable - OpenBSD has its own libc and its own set 
A> of system calls, some of
A> which are WAY COOL, but require proper porting.

There's another member of the MBSE development team who is running OpenBSD
so I will leave it to him to do the testing on that end.

What we -really- need are OS X users and someone with a SPARC/Alpha machine.

A> SCREW POLITIZED DISTRIBUTIONS, LONG LIFE INDEPENDENT OPERATING SYSTEMS!

I'm predicting that Windows will be running on top of the Linux kernel
sooner than later now that it is not Microsoft's cash cow.

-- Sean



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