I’ve written about Manjaro many times on this blog. Other than a lack of testing with NVidia cards/drivers, it’s hard to find fault with this distro. They are definitely doing a better job than Canonical with Ubuntu. I had made my peace with the poor performance of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, believing it a price worth paying for the embedded systems development support. Testing out 22.04 changed all of that. Granted my machines are a long … Why Manjaro is Taking OverRead more
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Gecko Linux NVidia and BOINC
This is a sad little journey involving Gecko Linux NVidia and BOINC. There will be some overlap with my TerraMaster post because I went down that road before getting BOINC to work. I’m always a bit leery of trying an RPM based distro for either my desktop or BOINC. This comes from back in the day when SuSE Linux came in a box on floppies with printed manuals. We only had dial-up Internet if we … Gecko Linux NVidia and BOINCRead more
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Windows 10 – No Video Display After Update
No video display after update will be a relentless theme over the next few months. You have already seen my post about Manjaro breaking with updates. Yes, had I paid attention, I could have “fixed” that from a terminal by un-installing the NVidia drivers. At least Linux has a generic driver that will let you use it as a video card. You just cannot use the GPU for things like BOINC. This is why you … Windows 10 – No Video Display After UpdateRead more
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So, Did Manjaro Quit Working for You Today?
Manjaro quit working today, but it is Friday. Did I deploy my tried and true embedded systems root cause analysis skills? Hell no! It’s Friday and it was working before I turned it off to connect it to a KVM. All I was doing was bringing one other machine back on-line because that client had more work for me. I dutifully powered off the 6-core AMD and cabled everything up through the dual monitor KVM. … So, Did Manjaro Quit Working for You Today?Read more
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LinuxLite 5.4 to 5.8 Upgrade Breaks NVidia
If you are using the easy update button on LinuxLite to upgrade from 5.4 to 5.8 be warned the upgrade breaks NVidia support. It’s not a hard break, just a stupid one. Kids need to learn the mantra CI/CD == Continuous Tragedy It’s true. Automated testing tests less than nothing. It certainly doesn’t test anything meaningful. The Untested Path I did a fresh install of LinuxLite 5.4 yesterday because I was putting a machine back … LinuxLite 5.4 to 5.8 Upgrade Breaks NVidiaRead more