Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 12/29/24 01:30, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 07:46:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > On 12/28/24 16:41, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > Armbian is *NOT* Debian  They do things differently there [...]
> > Then you are missing out on the many things a pi clone can do on 5% of an
> > amd64's power budget. Granted the amd64 can do it 20x faster, ignoring that
> > the pi clone is fast enough. Debian seems to treat the arm64's a toy.
> Gene, this is a totally irrelevant answer to what Andrew said. Raspi
> might be the best invention since sliced bread and still, asking for
> Armbian advice in a Debian group is at least... fraught.
>
> BTW, there is a semi-official Debian for Raspberry Pi, if you care.
> Getting a custom kernel up and running on it (as you seem to need for
> your lathe work) might be easier or more difficult than on Armbian.

I'm running one, about a year old now, on an actual rpi4b to run my 
biggest lathe, but the last arm64 installer can't find its net interface 
even if you fill in the blanks.  Armbian Just Works. Why can't debian-arm?

Cheers Tomas, Gene Heskett, CET.

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