On Tue, 23 Aug 2022, Ben Koenig wrote:
And if I'm going to be brutally honest with you, just use Rocky
Linux. All this effort to switch to deb distros seems pointless
given why you started in the first place. Word on the street is that
Rocky 9.0 is set to go EOL in 2032 ...
I know that
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:00:05 -0700
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Note: I use some obscure command-line-only applications
> that are only available as DEB and RPM. I'm glad there
> are other distro communities out there, but many do not
> have the obscure stuff, and building large apps from
> source
Another option is outlined here:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 5:22 PM Bill Barry wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 3:05 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> >
> > I have been slowly transitioning some systems away from
> >
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 3:05 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
> I have been slowly transitioning some systems away from
> increasingly-open-source-unfriendly Redhat derivatives
> (and RPM distros) to Ubuntu 20.04.x (and APT/DEB, or so
> I thought). My goal is a maximum-stable malware-free
>
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:00:05 -0700
Keith Lofstrom dijo:
>Today I migrated a test machine to Ubuntu 22.04.1.
>I expected all the upgrades to be DEB packages.
>
>Surprise! Canonical provides Firefox as a SNAP package,
>their own walled-garden flavor (like RPM). I had hoped
>to escape jails of
I have been slowly transitioning some systems away from
increasingly-open-source-unfriendly Redhat derivatives
(and RPM distros) to Ubuntu 20.04.x (and APT/DEB, or so
I thought). My goal is a maximum-stable malware-free
environment, not the shiniest-latest dancing-bearware.
Today I migrated a
