On July 15, 2019 8:44:54 PM HST, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> wrote: >On Monday, 15 July 2019 at 20:39:54 -1000, David W. Jones wrote: >> On 7/13/19 8:38 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> I've tried all three of these distros. I decided against Fedora, >but >>> that was well over 10 years ago, so it's not relevant to modern >>> releases. I think that if I were to start using Linux again, I'd go >>> for Debian, but for casual use Ubuntu is close enough. >> >> Ubuntu's easiest to install, I think. > >Yes, that was my consideration.
>>>> Ubuntu has a very effective upgrade process, too, but I think it >>>> only applies from LTS version to next LTS. >>> >>> Not really the issue here: I just want to see if the problems I see >>> also occur under Linux. I'd be happy to reinstall every time. >> >> Try under VirtualBox, maybe? > >Hugin doesn't really run well under VirtualBox. I've tried it, but >it's a pain, and since I have the hardware lying around, there's no >reason not to use it. Haven't tried it. >>>> In both cases, I'd make a partition image or an fsarchiver copy >>>> before trying it. >>> >>> Not a snapshot? >> >> Not knowing what you mean by a snapshot... partition images. > >VirtualBox offers snapshots: you can effectively freeze the contents >of the disk and return to older versions if you want. Ah, I didn't think of those as snapshots. > But I was >thinking of file system snapshots, available on UFS and ZFS. They do >pretty much the same thing. I don't know which Linux file systems >support them. Ah. I don't either. A quick duckduckgo search found BTRFS supports snapshots. Apparently you can also create snapshots if you use what one site called the "Linux native" file system lvm. I prefer my file system snapshots to be of static file systems. Boot from a flash drive, use fsarchiver to archive the system partition. -- David W. Jones [email protected] wandering the landscape of god http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with F/LOSS K-9 Mail. -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/06B80E57-D412-453C-B7D3-D285AB2D0CDB%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
