Re: My next computer and its support

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:43:41 -0800
Rick Moen <rick-IyCrq+X4Fdq2oZ/[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Steve Litt ([email protected]):
> 
> > I don't know. Chromium is on almost every distro.   
> 
> And, in fact, packaged directly by most distros.  (For the exceptions,
> there are generally external package repos that aren' difficult to
> find.)
> 
> > Chrome, not so much.  
> 
> That's because the licence covering the proprietary Chrome browser
> does not convey the right of redistribution (and section 9 clarifies
> that such right is specically _not_ conveyed).  
> 
> 
> > You might like Palemoon too, and it has its own installer so a
> > package isn't necessary.  
> 
> If collecting the whole set of Web browsers for Linux, see 
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/kicking.html#linuxbrowser . ;->
> 
> > >      Does Ubuntu use systemd?  
> > 
> > Yes. Unless you go all the way back to version 14.04.  
> 
> But the Upstart init system remains one obvious package operation
> away, if that's one's cuppa.  (I never liked it, FWIW, and it's
> basically orphanware at the moment.)

I never liked Upstart either, but it's fascinating that they still
support it.

All the other inits I've tried have been easily
interchangeable/replaceable. I might try loading a Lubuntu VM,
package-managering it to Upstart, and then try to lay down runit or
Epoch on it.

SteveT

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