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.



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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

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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