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YT7MPB > LINUX 21.09.20 18:31l 67 Lines 2847 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 20689_YT7MPB
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Subj: Re: YT7MPB > Re: Keep old BBS hardware?
Path: IW8PGT<I3XTY<IZ3LSV<DB0ERF<DB0RES<ON0AR<YT7MPB
Sent: 200919/1751Z @:YT7MPB.#NSD.SRB.EU #:20689 [Novi Sad] FBB7.0.9 $:20689_YT7
From: YT7MPB@YT7MPB.#NSD.SRB.EU
To : LINUX@WW
On 9/7/20 2:42 PM, N1URO wrote:
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> From: N1URO@VE2PKT.#QBC.QC.CAN.NOAM
> To : LINUX@WW
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> Misko / Marco;
>
> Have you looked into Devuan? It's Debian/Ubuntu without the overhead of
> systemd. They still make a distro for the i386 based systems as well. It
> may be a little faster than those distros that use systemd and it does
> come with Mate as a desktop however you can add Trinity Desktop (maintained
> by a ham here in Wisconsin) which is a full rewrite/modernized KDE3.
>
> Their first release was code named Jessie since it was based directly off of
> the Debian Jessie release but their next version up is called Ascii and it's
> based on Debian 9 (stretch) and is still active and being maintained. The
> current version as of this writing is Beowulf which is based on Debian 10
> (Buster).
>
> The website is https://www.devuan.org and it's what we base the main OS for
> EastNet with. It handles packet server applications (LinFBB, URONode, axMail-
> Fax, etc) just fine even on older hardware. If you have native Debian installed
> migrating to Devuan should be a cakewalk. I was on Debian Wheezy and migrated up
> to Devuan Jessie and now Ascii.
>
> You should be able to stay on kernel 3.x but if you must upgrade to a 4.x
> series kernel there's ax25 stack patches available by Marius YO2LOJ on his
> website. Don't forget about the kernel ax25 stack bug in the ax25.ko
> module.
>
> 73
>
Brian,
First of all, I would like to test with you and others whether this
answer will reach you at all. So please confirm when you read this.
Particularly because I type my response in a GUI again (have just
re-installed MATE graphics in this old Debian 8 box) where I also then
reinstalled Thunderbird to read/send FBB mails. (You bet this GUI and
Thunderbird is slow like an old turtle on a sand beach, but I am retired
and not in a hurry anymore, HI!)
Regarding Devuan, few years ago I did try it in a non-ham environment at
another place, but for some reason it did not suit my (then)
requirements. (I cannot remember now what the issue was.) Probably some
software I needed did not want to start etc.
So at this stage I am still with Debian 8 and FBB 7.0.8-beta. In a day
or two I will try to compile FBB 7.09. For now GUI/Thunderbird is
disabled at boot, so the command prompt comes at acceptable speed. Then
I start FBB (not yet as within boot process until fully checked). Of
course, as the sysop I have either xfbbC, telnet localhost, and
Thunderbird to handle my own mails.
Will see what will happen. I would not like to risk trying migration to
Devuan (or even to upgrade to Debian 9) because if something fails I
would come into trouble. But no option is excluded in times to come, HI.
--
73 de Misko YT7MPB@YT7MPB.#NSD.SRB.EU
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