Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes Date: 9 Jan 2025 18:33:01 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net trR3FeT6wRBGyACBoaoQBwYPBlcGubGdR3Dcga+Fa9f/rD8KI/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ds23i6lhioazxm1JKrjO/iwsdew= sha256:UTbaniCEtwDkDFrAJTjwREmaM51Fh+BATvNch4z3igI= User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:683529 On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 08:53:30 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote: > At one point I used Mandrake (I think it was Mandrake, maybe Mandrake's > predecessor (?), can't remember). There wasn't a predecessor. It was originally based on Red Hat but moved away. It must have been 25 years ago but I remember it as a smooth installation on an old Compaq. Speaking of smooth I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 last night. It's not a problem for me but it's still the 6.8.0 kernel. The Fedora box is up to 6.12.8. It wasn't particularly smooth. I had to manually kill and purge postgres before it would continue, then it failed on Thunderbird when trying to move to a snap. I was able to install it manually afterwards. The strangest part was the cleanup where it spent 25 minutes 'searching for obsolete software'. I have no idea what part of darkest Africa it was searching.