On Tue 02 May 2017 at 12:20:01 (-0700), Larry Dighera wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 21:34:14 -0400, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > >Even if OP can get the ttys working to his liking, I still think it's very > >likely a lost cause trying to use Jessie on his hardware. Stretch is very > >near > >ready to release, and probably OP's better next move. > > > > In this message thread: > http://www.udoo.org/forum/threads/debian-jessie-linux-os-installation.6819/ > others have also suggested Stretch. I looked at the existing bugs: > https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/testing.html > https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ > > Release-critical bugs status > > Tue May 2 17:00:00 UTC 2017 > > Total number of release-critical bugs: 1649 > Number that have a patch: 271 > Number that have a fix prepared and waiting to upload: 38 > Number that are being ignored: 78 > Number concerning the current stable release: 699 > Number concerning the next release: 149 > ---- > > The reason for installing Debian was because I have been impressed with its > stability and few update issues compared to other Linux flavors I've used, > so I was/am reluctant to overwrite Jessie with Stretch.
Scaling up the words of that ridiculous advert: 699 (stable/jessie) is greater than 149 (testing/stretch). But, seriously, those figures need a lot of interpreting. > Given the Udoo team claims to have installed Debian on their hardware, and > Tails Linux runs on it, I'd prefer to sort out the issues, and see if I > (we?) can effect a useable system. Reference? It's worth posting exactly what they installed; distribution, kernel version, etc. Cheers, David.
