On 4/12/25 00:12, Chris Albertson wrote:
30 second freeze? I would not have put up with that for more than a few days.
If you need to switch, go with something that is ridiculously well-supported,
Unbuntu. Ubuntu is Debian-based but software versions and such are a bit
different. I assume you have a reasonably new computer. Ubuntu uses apt but
also Snap. Span is great because it bundles all the dependencies. It solves
the “version dependency hell” problem although it assumes storage is cheap.
(Apple does the same with MacOS, the apps are self-contained)
I wonder if what you have is some kind of hardware issue.
I don't think its hdwe Chris. It was absolutely fine until I ran the
bookworm installer. I don't have a wired mouse, the installer see's the
rx button for the mouse, its a serial adaptor and thinks serial=blind
user, so it installs orca and brltty w/o asking. speach synth and a
brail printer. I spent around 40 damned installs, trying to find a way
to bypass that BS, most new installs required because if orca is
disabled, it won't reboot, just sits & waits for orca to come online
mid-boot. Finally an update removed the deps, apt then could remove orca
and it would then reboot. I rm'd the brlttl stuff. And that where I
still am, at least it will reboot but no one at debian can dup the
problem, so it all my fault.
The latest memtest86 says all 32G of memory is good. Apt is happy.
Aptitude is happy. Everything just works once the freeze times out. MB
is an Asus X370 something now about 4.5 or 5 years old. 6 core 3.7GHz
i5. 2 empty m2 slots. No backups, dragging feet building an amanda
system on a bpi-m5, which is faster than a rpi4b, need to find a holding
disk SSD. At least a half T. Have 13T worth of SSD's for main storage
there.
All this is w/o spinning rust, its 100% SSD's. 2T or 4T's. If I manage
to get amanda working so I don't lose 3+ years of 3dprinter code I've
written with OpenSCAD since bookworm was installed, I'll try trixie once
after release to see if the installer has been fixed, if that doesn't
work, ubuntu next, based on how good and dead stable armbian has been
for the last 2 versions then maybe slackware. That however looks scary
for a 90 yo brain though.
Thanks Chris, hope you are well.
On Apr 11, 2025, at 8:00 PM, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
Has anyone been successful at making linuxcnc run on Slackware?
I want to see if its feasible if trixie doesn't fix my now damned near 3 year
old problem with Debian. Which is a 30 second total system freeze when trying
to open a file or files I own. There is a 30 second timeout while I stare at a
frozen system, that nags me 20 to 150 times a day. And I am going to look at a
totally different system. preferably that uses apt as a package manger although
ISTR the slack guy has probably written his own.
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