Gene Heskett wrote: ... > This is still wheezy, because except for firefox, it Just Works. Theres > another 2T drive with the latest stretch installed on it in this machine > and I was in the process of moving my stuff to it with the intention of > updating to Buster when it was declared stable. That came to a > screeching halt when I read that synaptic was gone from buster.
what? synaptic is a GUI interface to package installation and removal. why should this block anything? dpkg and apt do those tasks just fine in a terminal. i only used synaptic in the past to get a quick access to lists of files installed and locations which i now get another way. it certainly isn't a requirement... as far as a windowing desktop that does what i want i have been using MATE since i got whiplashed by KDE (i liked it and finally got my desktop set up how i wanted it and then they ruined that so i switched to GNOME and just had that set up and going how i wanted it and they f'd that up too). i don't need a lot of flashy window stuff, i just want it to work and be reliable enough that i don't have to relearn a new interface or keystrokes every time the next version comes along. > What I > do next is still open for discussion. 3 of the 4 other machine tool > driving machines on my network are also on wheezy, with the 4th, an > r-pi-3b running a 3/4 ton lathe, running jessie, poorly. Good, realtime > kernels and armhf are not on the best of terms, yet I get power failure > to power failure uptimes. you must be on fairly good power supply if running that large a machine... also above i'm not sure what you mean by tabbed? i have text terminal windows here with tabs without problems. songbird
