Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ? Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:44:30 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <48e95cda-e869-9a60-0557-6ee1f6c4d5c7@example.net> References: <2e17ec15-582f-5a71-84e5-d4d490274270@example.net> <7454fa51-3534-2584-2197-90613efb2091@example.net> <9uo3ojpd83jm9ngmlhera3nvi00pl9ajeb@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3175484"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64177 On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > OpenSUSE captured the goodness of the original > very well. Used it for desktops, used it for This is the truth! Part of my christmas holidays were spent upgrading my work laptop, my fathers laptop and my backup server to opensuse 15.6. All went beautiful, quick, and without any problems at all. > servers. Of late it's kinda become messed up, > they dropped a lot of older utilities - some > of which I'd writ software around and/or parsed > their output. That's when I got mad at 'em and What utilities did they drop? I've use opensuse for a long time and have not experienced this pain. I am very interested, since it might signal where the distribution is going, so that I can change ahead of time. > went straight Deb. Then Deb got funky, WAY too > much like Ubuntu. IMHO Ubuntu should have shifted > more back towards Deb. > > So, for now, Manjaro and some Fedora. No one has yet How is majaro? Is it a contender? > made a clean Just Works port of Fedora for the > Pi-5 alas ... something's WEIRD about that unit. > They should drop it and make a "Pi4-Ultra" instead > with a peppier version of that chip. > > Tried to make a VM of DragonFly the other day. > Wouldn't boot properly, dunno why yet. The > 'live' version would start OK in VBox and > allegedly install, but you couldn't boot the > resultant installation - it remained fixated > on the live ISO being there. I've used it > a little in the past and it ain't bad at all > so I'll try again. My FreeBSD VM works Ok. Had no problems with Freebsd in VM:s and native on my asus laptop. Never tried dragonfly. > Oh ... never found good advice on this ... is > it possible to somehow clone a VBox installation > and jam it in as a HDD install ? VMs are good > for experimentation - but once you get the > experiment RIGHT you don't wanna throw it away. Can't you just save the kickstart file (or what ever the equivalent is called in suse-language) and use that for a hardware based redeploy? Then you rsync over any customizations. > Anyway, 'diversity' ... good to a POINT, so long > as it doesn't overly-fracture developer teams.