Re: Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist

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Author: Stephen
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist
What was old reliable?
On Mar 6, 2012 5:39 PM, <> wrote:

> == Eric last wrote:
> > You certainly do want your base OS which runs on the HW to be as
> > reliable as possible. Any reason why you can't put your "old reliable"
> > distro on the bare iron, then run VB on that with everything else as
> > VMs? That's what I would shoot for.
>
> It is my understanding that my "old reliable" system is too old to get
> VB/VM working on it. I can do everything else on "old reliable" and it
> works incredibly much faster, more efficiently, and absolutely without
> problems ... whereas every newer distro I have tried has given me fits. I
> detest KDE4 and I detest "updates" that inevitably break something. I
> just did an "update" on one of my newer boxes and, sure enough after the
> "update" the system locked up, the keyboard lights started blinking, and I
> had a dickens of a time getting it to boot up. I have tried more than a
> dozen different "newer" distros and every time ... EVERY time, that has
> brought annoying problems.
>
> Whereas "old reliable" (which I have on three other boxes) NEVER breaks,
> NEVER fails me, NEVER causes me any frustrations.
>
>
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