Re: Diversity - good or bad ?

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

 OpenSUSE captured the goodness of the original
 very well. Used it for desktops, used it for

This is the truth! Part of my christmas holidays were spent upgrading my work
laptop, my fathers laptop and my backup server to opensuse 15.6. All went
beautiful, quick, and without any problems at all.

 servers. Of late it's kinda become messed up,
 they dropped a lot of older utilities - some
 of which I'd writ software around and/or parsed
 their output. That's when I got mad at 'em and

What utilities did they drop? I've use opensuse for a long time and have not
experienced this pain. I am very interested, since it might signal where the
distribution is going, so that I can change ahead of time.

 went straight Deb. Then Deb got funky, WAY too
 much like Ubuntu. IMHO Ubuntu should have shifted
 more back towards Deb.
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 So, for now, Manjaro and some Fedora. No one has yet

How is majaro? Is it a contender?

 made a clean Just Works port of Fedora for the
 Pi-5 alas ... something's WEIRD about that unit.
 They should drop it and make a "Pi4-Ultra" instead
 with a peppier version of that chip.
>
 Tried to make a VM of DragonFly the other day.
 Wouldn't boot properly, dunno why yet. The
 'live' version would start OK in VBox and
 allegedly install, but you couldn't boot the
 resultant installation - it remained fixated
 on the live ISO being there. I've used it
 a little in the past and it ain't bad at all
 so I'll try again. My FreeBSD VM works Ok.

Had no problems with Freebsd in VM:s and native on my asus laptop. Never tried
dragonfly.

 Oh ... never found good advice on this ... is
 it possible to somehow clone a VBox installation
 and jam it in as a HDD install ? VMs are good
 for experimentation - but once you get the
 experiment RIGHT you don't wanna throw it away.

Can't you just save the kickstart file (or what ever the equivalent is called in
suse-language) and use that for a hardware based redeploy? Then you rsync over
any customizations.

 Anyway, 'diversity' ... good to a POINT, so long
 as it doesn't overly-fracture developer teams.