[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting

[Rich Walker]

"Martin A. Brooks" <martin at hinterlands.org> writes:


> I don't mean to flip into Debian Zealot mode but how can you guys possibly cope with this crap?
>
> FC3 has had a shelf life of what?  6 months?  On top of that you've mostly had to use 3rd party
> packages to get the functionality you need. And now it's EOL and you can expect little, if any,
> official retro-support and yet you keep downloading the FCn+1 install media.

the other day I found a machine at work that had been sitting in a
corner for a while, and booted it.

It was about a 3-year-old Debian install.

I set it to upgrade, and went home. Next morning, it was up-to-date.

What more can you ask for from an OS?



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