So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images, and continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to 6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

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<Knghtbrd> you know, Linux needs a platform game starring Tux
<Knghtbrd> kinda Super Marioish, but with Tux and things like little cyber
bugs and borgs and that sort of thing ...
<Knghtbrd> And you have to jump past billgatus and hit the key to drop him
into the lava and then you see some guy that looks like a RMS
or someone say "Thank you for rescuing me Tux, but Linus
Torvalds is in another castle!"

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On Sat, 17 May 2025 08:29:04 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images, and continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to 6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

Move your ass over to Gentoo, where all updates are totally in your
control.

No more surprises. No more doubts. (And no one to blame but yourself.)

It's a bit of a shock at first, but once acclimatized the user will
have found paradise.



--
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

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On Sat, 17 May 2025 08:29:04 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote in <1009veh$cu0n$1@dont-email.me>:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images,
and continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to
6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

I feel your pain:

_[/boot]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
$ ls vmlinuz-* | wc -l
33

Almost all of those are manually-installed, so the Mint software updater
won't touch them. (You can set it to keep only two distro kernels.)

Meanwhile, I have some of this going on:

_[/home/vallor/OS]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
$ ls -d linux-*[0-9] | wc -l
70

70 built kernels, which I need to start removing (or run "make clean")
to make room on the NAS.

--
-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
OS: Linux 6.14.6 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G
"Using yesterday's technology to solve today's problems, tomorrow"

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On Sat, 17 May 2025 08:29:04 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images,
and continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to
6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

So which kernel is it using? Fedora is 6.14.6 and has 7 old ones hanging around.

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rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Sat, 17 May 2025 08:29:04 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images,
and continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to
6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

So which kernel is it using? Fedora is 6.14.6 and has 7 old ones hanging around.

6.12.27

The Arch laptop is at 6.14.6. Only 1 kernel as far as I can tell with a quick look.

--
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy to a goldfish.
-- Walt Disney

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Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Sat, 17 May 2025 08:29:04 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images, and >> continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to 6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

Move your ass over to Gentoo, where all updates are totally in your
control.

I've already installed Gentoo, two different occasions, years ago.

It's fine, but I prefer Arch and Debian these days.

No more surprises. No more doubts. (And no one to blame but yourself.)

It's a bit of a shock at first, but once acclimatized the user will
have found paradise.

Any Linux distro is paradise compared to Windows.

--
Debian Hint #18: Quality control information about a package can be found by going to https://tracker.debian.org/<package>; this page provides links to the Maintainer's QA page, the BTS, news items for the package, and information on which versions are available in which archives.

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Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote in news:100cf0h$uq8b$7@dont-email.me:

Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Sat, 17 May 2025 08:29:04 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd
images, and continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from
6.10.11 to 6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

Move your ass over to Gentoo, where all updates are totally in your
control.

I've already installed Gentoo, two different occasions, years ago.

It's fine, but I prefer Arch and Debian these days.

No more surprises. No more doubts. (And no one to blame but
yourself.)

It's a bit of a shock at first, but once acclimatized the user will
have found paradise.

Any Linux distro is paradise compared to Windows.

You must live on Devil's Island if you truly believe that.
Say hello to Papillon.

Apologies if you are a geek.
Geeks love linux.

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On 19 May 2025 21:57:19 GMT, Itamar Lichtman wrote:

Any Linux distro is paradise compared to Windows.

You must live on Devil's Island if you truly believe that.

All you have to do is look at the deteriorating quality of Microsoft’s Windows updates. Microsoft itself simply doesn’t have its heart in maintaining that festering pile of legacy junk any more.

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On Mon, 19 May 2025 21:57:19 +0000, Itamar Lichtman wrote:

Geeks(*) love linux.

And fucking retarded parochial assholes love Micro$oft.


(*) What a fucking retard like you terms a "geek" is actually
a highy intelligent, informed, and cosmopolitan computer
user.


--
Hail Linux! Hail FOSS! Hail Stallman!

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Joel wrote:

I'm doing far better without M$.

Jobless and living off the government dole, far
better than what, a homeless person?

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On 2025-05-20 11:06 a.m., Rudy Canoza wrote:

Joel wrote:

I'm doing far better without M$.

Jobless and living off the government dole, far
better than what, a homeless person?

He might be referring to how he is doing psychologically. Maybe Linux
has drawn him away from being anally penetrated?

--
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
John 14:6

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Joel wrote:

Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@jkone.not> wrote:

I'm doing far better without M$.

Jobless and living off the government dole, far
better than what, a homeless person?

Social Security income is earned, asswipe

Nope, you're a lazy ass mooch on society, loser.

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Joel wrote:

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-05-20 11:06 a.m., Rudy Canoza wrote:

Joel wrote:

I'm doing far better without M$.

Jobless and living off the government dole, far
better than what, a homeless person?

He might be referring to how he is doing psychologically. Maybe Linux
has drawn him away from being anally penetrated?

Nope, I look forward to getting fucked in the ass by my GF.

Get a job you lazy wankstain.

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Joel wrote:

Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@jkone.not> wrote:

Get a job you lazy wankstain.

Fuck my mother.

https://postimg.cc/dDkGnspM GUFFAW!

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CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2025-05-20 11:06 a.m., Rudy Canoza wrote:

Joel wrote:

I'm doing far better without M$.

;

Jobless and living off the government dole, far
better than what, a homeless person?

He might be referring to how he is doing psychologically. Maybe Linux
has drawn him away from being anally penetrated?

He's a mentally ill wankstain.

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Joel wrote:

Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@jkone.not> wrote:

I'm doing far better without M$.

Jobless and living off the government dole, far
better than what, a homeless person?

Social Security income is earned, asswipe

Nope, you're a lazy ass mooch on society, loser.

Nope, you're a moron who has no idea who and what I am, and what I've
done for "society", ASSHOLE. Drop dead or say it to my face, I'll
fight you even with my left arm being impaired, because you're such a
prick piece of human garbage.

You're not only a lazy ass mooch on society, you're
also a pillow biting limp wristed sissy keyboard warrior.

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W dniu 17.05.2025 o 14:29, Chris Ahlstrom pisze:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images, and continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to 6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

Personally, I always use oldest available kernel, and newer update it.
List of kernels I can get with command:

apt list | grep -P 'linux-image-\d+.*'

In the case version 5.4.0-26 is oldest, I install it with command:

sudo apt install $(apt list | grep 'linux-[^-]*-5.4.0-26-generic' | cut
-d '/' -f1 | tr '\n' ' ')

don't forget about X Window, which require following package to work:

sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-26-generic

Then I stop update kernel with command:

sudo apt-mark hold linux-*

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Joel wrote:

Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@jkone.not> wrote:

I'm doing far better without M$.

Jobless and living off the government dole, far
better than what, a homeless person?

Social Security income is earned, asswipe

Nope, you're a lazy ass mooch on society, loser.

Nope, you're a moron who has no idea who and what I am, and what I've
done for "society", ASSHOLE. Drop dead or say it to my face, I'll
fight you even with my left arm being impaired, because you're such a
prick piece of human garbage.

You're not only a lazy ass mooch on society, you're
also a pillow biting limp wristed sissy keyboard warrior.

Nope, retard, you started shit with me online, so you get "keyboard
warrior" as a result, of YOUR asswipe spew. Say it to my face, punk.

https://postimg.cc/N5rqHRCH

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W dniu 17.05.2025 o 15:58, Farley Flud pisze:

Move your ass over to Gentoo, where all updates are totally in your
control.

On Kubuntu 20.04 all updates are totally under my control, too.
But as you know Canonical is consuming/is conscient with with M$, so it
can change in the future.
How ever it is very strange to me, because I think such "cooperation"
straight lead to bankruptcy: recall Nokia mobile busines.

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W dniu 23.05.2025 o 11:06, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 pisze:

W dniu 17.05.2025 o 14:29, Chris Ahlstrom pisze:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images,
and
continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to 6.12.27.

Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

Personally, I always use oldest available kernel, and newer update it.
List of kernels I can get with command:

apt list | grep -P 'linux-image-\d+.*'

In the case version 5.4.0-26 is oldest, I install it with command:

sudo apt install $(apt list | grep 'linux-[^-]*-5.4.0-26-generic' | cut
-d '/' -f1 | tr '\n' ' ')

don't forget about X Window, which require following package to work:

sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-26-generic

Then I stop update kernel with command:

sudo apt-mark hold linux-*

And of course: reboot with oldest kernel, and remove all rest of them.

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Joel wrote:

Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@jkone.not> wrote:

I'm doing far better without M$.

Jobless and living off the government dole, far
better than what, a homeless person?

Social Security income is earned, asswipe

Nope, you're a lazy ass mooch on society, loser.

Nope, you're a moron who has no idea who and what I am, and what I've >>>>> done for "society", ASSHOLE. Drop dead or say it to my face, I'll
fight you even with my left arm being impaired, because you're such a >>>>> prick piece of human garbage.

You're not only a lazy ass mooch on society, you're
also a pillow biting limp wristed sissy keyboard warrior.

Nope, retard, you started shit with me online, so you get "keyboard
warrior" as a result, of YOUR asswipe spew. Say it to my face, punk.

https://postimg.cc/N5rqHRCH

That's all you can do because you're a coward, pussyboy. I'd beat
your ass until you begged me to stop.

STFU you keyboard warrior sissy wimp, you scare no one.

https://postimg.cc/S2rFDnZq

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On Fri, 23 May 2025 11:23:13 +0200, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

But as you know Canonical is consuming/is conscient with with M$, so it
can change in the future.
How ever it is very strange to me, because I think such "cooperation" straight lead to bankruptcy: recall Nokia mobile busines.

For Nokia, it led to the acquisition of their entire mobile business by Microsoft, just to head off an impending high-profile defection to
Android.

In other words, it was a matter of saving corporate face. A very
expensive, multi-billion-dollar way of saving corporate face, but who in
the company is going to argue with the C-level execs?

Canonical has been cosying up to Microsoft more and more lately. And they
could indeed end up being acquired by same at some point. The difference
is that the Linux company could actually make a net positive contribution
to the overall bottom line.

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On Sat, 24 May 2025 22:53:48 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Canonical has been cosying up to Microsoft more and more lately. And
they could indeed end up being acquired by same at some point. The
difference is that the Linux company could actually make a net positive contribution to the overall bottom line.

https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/would-you-adopt-microsofts-azure- linux-as-your-linux-distribution-if-you-could/

But does Microsoft need Canonical? Azure Linux is stripped down for its
role but it could be expanded.

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