[sf-lug] New Releases of Significant Distributions

[yru looking]

hey ken;
hope you and yours are well...
wow, that is A LOT to do just to run debian on a stick.


be well...


'maestro'... >>>


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On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 8:23 AM Ken Shaffer <kenshaffer80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> August 15, 2021, my Debian update on a 1GB ram, 5.7GB root Intel Compute
> Stick.
> Bullseye (Debian 11) released. Tried update from Buster on an 8GB Intel
> Compute Stick (ICS). First, had to edit sources.list to get rid of
> "stable" and use
> buster to get up to date. Then changed the buster to bullseye and changed
> the
> buster/updates to buster-security. Used a link on /var/cache/apt/archives
> to
> the microsd card debian/archives dir. apt-get update then ran. Tried the
> dist-upgrade next, but ran out of space. cleaned up logs, copied all
> kernels
> and support files to microsd. Still not enough room, so ran autoremove, and
> that seemed to let lots of "setting up" to occur. Surprised me a bit, I was
> just expecting it to free up some space, not acutaly install anything.
> initramfs generation No kernel present, but ran! Copied the 5.10 kernel
> back
> from the microsd card, / is at 94%. Check /boot/grub/grub.cfg, oops, no
> 5.10
> kernel present (just the Antix 19 on the sd card, so run sudo update grub.
> OK,
> grub.cfg looks good, reboot and see (still running the 4.19 kernel) Reboot
> worked, put the /var/cache/apt/archives dir back in place (instead of a
> link
> to the microsd). Edited the hostname to bullseye. Background no longer
> blank,
> so made the terminal tranparency 0. Reboot and all looks good. Check the
> sources.list and looked like I failed to copy in the final 11 version. Just
> ran with the "stable" main. Copied in the 11 version (with the
> bullseye-security in place of buster/updates and got some updates. Do I
> really
> need the oxygen-icon-theme for 31MB or the papirus-icon-theme for 18MB?
> Cleaned
> out the /var/cache/apt/archives directory and the one on the microsd card
> too.
>
> Tried the Antix 19 boot off microsd in the ICS, and with success,
> called it done.
> Ken
>
> On 8/17/21, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> > Hi LUGers,
> >
> >      Well Distrowatch after a dry week now has Debian 11 Bulleye, Debian
> > Edu,
> >      Manjaro 21.1.0 with a multiplicity of Desktop Environments
> > and Zorin 15.3, 16 and Core 16.  Zorin wants $39 for the Zorin 16 Pro.
> > It uses Gnome 40.
> >      These are distribution releases.
> >
> >      Slackware 15.0 RC1 is out in a full and mini net install and seems
> > to avoid having
> > regular distribution releases.
> >
> >      I got the Slackware net install and am downloading the Manjaro KDE
> > version
> > as I write.
> >
> >      Oh and PCLinuxOS 64 has a full suite of releases with KDE in 3
> > versions, Mate,
> > and XFCE as of the beginning of August 2021.
> >
> >      Bobbie Sellers
> >
> >
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