If you have really been using Linux since your Altos retired, you probably know how to make backups. You may have even heard of rsync. And anyway, you know to keep data, configuration and users file separate. (If not, hand in your geek card NOW).
moving to BSD is done like this:
Install+ the BSD of your choice (FreeBSD for performance, OpenBSD for security).
Install the packages you actually need.
Restore from backup or rsync from live machine
Estimated total time 90 minutes (OpenBSD), unless you are still using a 32 bit machine on 811g*.
Do not restore/etc and/var in place, but somewhere else (like/home/restore) and migrate the settings as you find you need them.
Once its working, delete the/home/restore subtree.
There should not be anything that is file system dependent anyway unless you are deeply into file system development.
+ Install from floppies is no longer recommended, and installing over the net will take a while if you have not done it before
* A 32 bit machine on 811g will probably still perform adequately for some purposes - such as a trial run to see if its as easy as I say.
No one wants a computing world where you can't get more that 25% of cars from the same manufacturer.
FTFY
In the real world: where there are multiple architectures, you could reasonably expect people to write most software in high level languages, in a portable way.
Alternatively, the communists like you will take over, and we will all drive Trabants.
Most corporations could be expected to plead "Not guilty by reason of insanity" - as a juror, I would be tempted to accept the plea from many of them, including Equifax - provided the penalty is all directors being sent to the loony bin for life.
Tim Noakes who wrote The Lore of Running says he could run 120K a week and he still put on weight and he still got diabetes -- it was the food, not the activity, which was to blame, he came to realise
There is very strong evidence that at least some "type 2*" diabetes is due to bad gut bacteria deliberately manipulating your metabolism to make more sugar available to itself.
Someone with undiagnosed/untreated diabetes is unable to metabolise sugar, and will crave sugar, putting on weight - correlation is NOT causation - but the tabloids don't know.
* There are two totally different mechanisms referred to as type 2 - (a) insufficient insulin production, and (b) your cells ignoring the insulin that is available - probably due to insulin receptors in the cells being blocked by something. (It is not impossible to have both problems.
Not sure why the Royal Automobile Club is involved in this, but I think we see the problem here:
You are using Intel.
If you want uptime, use OpenBSD on Sparc64: you boot once every 6 months - when you upgrade. Other updates don't need a reboot, and you won't have kernel panics.
They forced it on us with no warning, with no asking, and with significant changes in UI. This may be OK for nerds, but it certainly is not for the average user - and 50% of users are below average!
This is utterly unacceptable and antisocial behaviour - like slapping your customers round the face with a wet fish
Something needs to be done about the pig-fest developer community. And now. Probably time to give them a good slapping with real life wet fish!
In London the danger of being mown down by mad cyclists is real too, However, where the traffic rarely exceeds 7mph, there are bigger dangers - such as dying of boredom while waiting to be mown down by a vehicle.
Personally, I think NOx is a serious problem here.
Is it such an outlandish idea that people would play a game mainly because it's FUN??
No. That is a reasonable idea. He idea that competing against people who can pay their way to the front is reasonable too - its the American Way for the rich to cheat. However, if you do not have the financial clout, and discover late in the game (eg cos very young or stupid*), then you may suddenly get the impression its not so fun.
* There is no law against stupid, nor ever will be: some of our "best" politicians are stupid.
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They voted for Trump, didn't they?
moving to BSD is done like this:
Estimated total time 90 minutes (OpenBSD), unless you are still using a 32 bit machine on 811g*. Do not restore /etc and /var in place, but somewhere else (like /home/restore) and migrate the settings as you find you need them.
Once its working, delete the /home/restore subtree.
There should not be anything that is file system dependent anyway unless you are deeply into file system development.
+ Install from floppies is no longer recommended, and installing over the net will take a while if you have not done it before
* A 32 bit machine on 811g will probably still perform adequately for some purposes - such as a trial run to see if its as easy as I say.
FTFY
In the real world: where there are multiple architectures, you could reasonably expect people to write most software in high level languages, in a portable way.
Alternatively, the communists like you will take over, and we will all drive Trabants.
Most corporations could be expected to plead "Not guilty by reason of insanity" - as a juror, I would be tempted to accept the plea from many of them, including Equifax - provided the penalty is all directors being sent to the loony bin for life.
I talk my way through the room when drunk as well, and I know a lot of others who do it while high - same concept.
So where are my unicorns and flying pigs?
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
FTFY
There is very strong evidence that at least some "type 2*" diabetes is due to bad gut bacteria deliberately manipulating your metabolism to make more sugar available to itself.
Someone with undiagnosed/untreated diabetes is unable to metabolise sugar, and will crave sugar, putting on weight - correlation is NOT causation - but the tabloids don't know.
* There are two totally different mechanisms referred to as type 2 - (a) insufficient insulin production, and (b) your cells ignoring the insulin that is available - probably due to insulin receptors in the cells being blocked by something. (It is not impossible to have both problems.
No. The leading cause of death in most western countries is shock brought on by reading telecoms bills.
The extremely gullible - ie the target most marketeers would give their eye-teeth for
They don't - that is why the need to make the code run 20% slower!
Maybe today, but how long will that last?
Not for me, I don't game as I already have a life (and don't need a half-life), so I am sticking with Linux.
Jedi have light sabres.
Can I email my surplus virtual heat to you for you to dispose of?
I thought that went out the window when Ross Perot left IBM!
No. I have not used OpenBSD in a serious way on Intel since about the P4, so I am not in a position to comment.
Perhaps a port from Javascript to C might help.
Not sure why the Royal Automobile Club is involved in this, but I think we see the problem here:
You are using Intel.
If you want uptime, use OpenBSD on Sparc64: you boot once every 6 months - when you upgrade. Other updates don't need a reboot, and you won't have kernel panics.
What we need is a Linux distro that values stability and does not keep pissing around with UIs (and APIs) with no warning.
Ok, I will go back to my BSD cave right now!
Its another gnome3/Unity/systemd:
They forced it on us with no warning, with no asking, and with significant changes in UI. This may be OK for nerds, but it certainly is not for the average user - and 50% of users are below average!
This is utterly unacceptable and antisocial behaviour - like slapping your customers round the face with a wet fish
Something needs to be done about the pig-fest developer community. And now. Probably time to give them a good slapping with real life wet fish!
(For and on behalf of Aunt Mildred (age 86)).
FTFY
Personally, I think NOx is a serious problem here.
No. That is a reasonable idea. He idea that competing against people who can pay their way to the front is reasonable too - its the American Way for the rich to cheat. However, if you do not have the financial clout, and discover late in the game (eg cos very young or stupid*), then you may suddenly get the impression its not so fun.
* There is no law against stupid, nor ever will be: some of our "best" politicians are stupid.