Re: What Linux distribution to use?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 26 July 2016 18:47:11 Johann Klammer wrote:
> On 07/26/2016 04:50 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > Telling us your requirements, will make making a recommendation easier.
>
> I did. it's just those two things...

Why use Stretch if the software in it ios too new for your boxen??

> ...
> kinda thought it was obvious, that the problem is my boxen being too
> old to run that stuff.

Of course it is not obvious!!

Lisi
> To be more specific, something I tried to install had a dependency on
> apt-transport-https, and pulled in new versions of:
> Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 libapt-pkg5.0 i386
> 1.3~pre2 [898 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386
> apt-utils i386 1.3~pre2 [402 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian
> testing/main i386 apt i386 1.3~pre2 [1,166 kB] Get:4
> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt-transport-https i386
> 1.3~pre2 [157 kB]
>
> those would not run:
>
> Dump of assembler code from 0xb7eb4a73 to 0xb7eb4a87:
>    0xb7eb4a73
> <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr
>aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2275>:    cmp    -0x288(%ebp),%eax => 0xb7eb4a79
> <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr
>aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2281>:    cmovne -0x1bc(%ebp),%edx 0xb7eb4a80
> <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr
>aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2288>:    lea    0x1(%edi),%ecx 0xb7eb4a83
> <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr
>aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2291>:    mov    %ecx,-0x274(%ebp)
>
> Luckily, there were still versions 1.2.1 in the local
> /var/cache/apt/archives, I dpkg -i 'd them, so all is working for now...
>
> But I'll have to look for alternatives.