Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist

[Eric Shubert]

I was thinking the same question.

If VB won't run on "old reliable", then find a "new reliable" that's as 
close as possible to "old reliable" (afa the desktop goes), run "new 
reliable" on bare iron, and run everything else as VMs under VBox.

FWIW, I've been running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS since 10.10 or so and it's been 
very stable. I run VMware Player instead of VirtualBox, but I think 
you'd be just as happy with VB.

Maybe your problem is that the new distros you've been trying are too 
new. Seriously. Pick one that's had a chance for the bugs to settle out 
of it. Like I said, I didn't install Ubuntu 10.4 until 6 months or so 
after it came out. The bleeding edge is not a pleasant place to be for 
many of us.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

On 03/06/2012 06:53 PM, Stephen wrote:
> What was old reliable?
>
> On Mar 6, 2012 5:39 PM, <joe at actionline.com <mailto:joe at actionline.com>>
> 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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