Subj : For you SBBS Sysops o
To : Dumas Walker
From : Accession
Date : Sun Jun 30 2024 11:53 am
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:59:00 -0500, you wrote:
DW> (1) it happened here earlier this year
DW> (2) it had nothing to do with graphic drivers, as best as I can tell,
DW> as I could see the screen enough to know that the machine was not working.
DW> I remember the graphic driver issue days and this didn't look anything like
DW> the colorful mess you could wind up with after an install in those days.
DW> I suspect it has a lot more to do with them being more "cutting edge." I
DW> also suspect it had something to do with the messages about certain
DW> packages no longer being available in the "non-paid support" release.
I would hope that may be more specific to Ubuntu, then. I guess I haven't really heard of that happening anywhere else, and I've definitely heard about the woes of upgrading Ubuntu plenty of times in the past.
DW> apt under Debian and Devuan spits out no such messages. They "just work"
DW> like they are supposed to.
That's a good thing. I take it you're using Devuan now? That may be another one I might have to take a look at. I'm not really in the market for a GUI distro, but it cures boredom at times. :)
DW> There has been some recent noise about something else they have rolled into
DW> systemd that was causing folks issues. Here, I found that on certain
DW> machines, installing a systemd based distro resulted in unrequested, random
DW> reboots. Installing devuan made that stop happening on system #1 (a more
DW> critical system). System #2, the same hardware, required a GUI and Debian
DW> proper was left on it. It is not so critical and still reboots at odd
DW> times.
Maybe I'm lucky then, but I haven't had a single issue with systemd in all the years I've used it. Definitely never had a Linux distro randomly reboot on me, which almost sounds more like hardware failure than anything else.
Regards,
Nick
... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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