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Re: Grub hell

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Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> wrote:

> I've been running Ubuntu 16.04 in a VM for awhile with Windows 10 as
> a host and it has frozen up on me three times already.  There is 
> something very wrong with that distro.  So I download 14.10 to try
> it out in a VM and it's not supported so I can't install any 
> software using apr-get.  WTF.  Just give me the last version guys
> and I'll rough it.  

Hmm, you mean the 14.10 isn't supported in the VM anymore?

I'm running the 14.04LTS on that file server/backup/media thing here and the
apt-get and installing software works fine. I dunno how long it'll be
supported but I don't need much on it.

Even the "updates are ready to be installed" is still working nearly daily.

> Not sure I want to go back to 14.04 because that's April 2014.  I'll
> muddle through with this Windows Update shit.  Every time I have to
> reboot this machine I wonder if it's the last time it boots.
> Total fucking bullshit.  So far they've made me reboot twice
> in the last 2 weeks.  I wouldn't mind doing this once a month
> but every fucking week is too much.  Hopefully in 6 months the
> nerds will have the major bugs in Ubuntu 16.04 worked out and
> I can ditch this Windows 10 POS.

Somewhat related, yesterday Melissa was asking about an old usb scanner we
have laying around. It hasn't been supported since the mid 2000's by either
the mac or windows (it's like a canon model 1 usb, self-powered) and figured
since the linux guys build and maintain drivers for 30 year old Maytag
washing machines, I'd plug it into the Toshiba laptop I installed that 16.04
in also, around the same time I tinkered with the server box.

The laptop booted and I was able to log in, but as soon as I clicked on that
first icon for a file search, the screen blanked and it rebooted. With the
second attempt, it found the "Simple Scan" but didn't detect the scanner.

Oh well.

On a lark I figure I'd plug it into the server box with the 14.04 and sure
enough, not only detected it without any voodoo, it scanned/saved the
documents just fine in pdf format. One usb drive copy later, we were all
done.

I don't follow the ubuntu forums enough to see if this crap is the norm but
I did notice on everyblock.com there is a mention of a "free operating
system users group" that meet at the Golden Nugget on Irving Park Rd. once a
month.

If it's more than one fat guy telling you "your lips sure are purty", I
might drop in and see if there is anything to learn about this. Then again
it might be some BSD guys still working on scsi-1 hardware or complaining
about how IDE drives are hard to find.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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        Re: Grub hell Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-09-12 10:54 +0000
          Re: Grub hell Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-09-12 11:51 -0700
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            Re: Grub hell Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-10-05 12:16 +0000
              Re: Grub hell Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-10-05 13:36 -0700
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