Thank you.
I performed the update yesterday and, with only a few minor changes, was
able to get the client's server back. This was, without a doubt, the
easiest dist-upgrade I have done in around 20 years of running Debian
systems.
Ran into a few minor issues, which I'll record here in case anyon
Steve,
I'm a lurker at Devuan, but you can add me to the list of people leaving
Debian (in this case, Linux). Our company is moving (slowly) to FreeBSD
for our servers. Just don't need workstation OS's on our servers, which
is what Linux is moving towards. But, with close to 100 servers, it will
t
After TrueCrypt died (and yes, there have been many rumors about why), I
went to LUKS and found a very nice QT front end for cryptsetup named
ZuluCrypt. It allows you to create a volume (file), encrypt it, mount
it, etc... Pretty nice on my workstation.
Source is at https://github.com/mhogomchungu
The big thing for me about Ubuntu, etc... is not the fact they use sudo
a lot, it is that by default they do not allow root login at all. If the
/home partition has problems, you must login as a user, then sudo to
root, then attempt to dismount /home and work on it, which will not work
since /home
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> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 6:29 PM, R. W. Rodolico <mailto:r...@dailydata.net>> wrote:
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> I've been lurking for a while, and I'm getting close to a decision
> point. I have been using Debi
I've been lurking for a while, and I'm getting close to a decision
point. I have been using Debian for well over a decade, but Jessie
appears to be too unstable. The two machines I installed it on had
issues bad enough that I reverted to Wheezy (reformat/reinstall).
Thing is, I mainly deal in serv
