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By: Playing whack-a-mole « Motho ke motho ka botho

Playing whack-a-mole « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:08:15 +0000

[...] This is a good-news, bad-news post, with everything revolving around Crux and my mysterious inability to update between the old version 7.3 of xorg that comes on the 2.4 release CD, and the fresher 7.4 versions [...]

By: More notes from 100Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

More notes from 100Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:53:06 +0000

[...] far I’ve stuck with console applications out of the opt repository, mostly because I’m having a hard time getting the X system to upgrade to current on a full-fledged Crux syste…, and I don’t want to complicate my troubleshooting on this old machine by knowing the [...]

By: voltaic

voltaic — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:09:48 +0000

I agree. In my three or so years of running Crux I never encountered an issue like that. I find that especially with sparse GNU/Linux based operating systems (Crux, Arch, etc) the “computers aren’t random” mantra is very true. In fact I have gotten so used to this that I don’t really consider rebooting the system anymore unless I want to use a different kernel. If there is an error somewhere, I know it will keep happening no matter how many times I reboot or try again. As a result, when I encounter something strange my immediate reaction is to ask: “what did I mess up this time?”

This is great though! I don’t feel like I’m dealing with a black box when I use a simple and sparse operating system: It does what I ask it to do, and no more.

Now, if you compare this to Windows (or even Ubuntu I might argue)… things are much less predictable.

By: James

James — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:06:30 +0000

Computers aren’t random! When they appear to be, there’s either a bug, human error, or a hardware failure.