For me the short answer is that I very much dislike this and would prefer not
to have it.
There was an open issue in my git repo about performance issues relating to
'machine id' and pulse when dbus is not available. The person reporting it
provided a hackish work around and I later asked
Upgrading from ascii to beowulf was very straight forward for me.
sed -i 's/ascii/beowulf/' /etc/apt/sources.list
then apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
If it's not straight forward, please inbox me. I don't have much time to do
anything just now but I'll eventually document the upgrade
