I try to build 'em so they only bork when I want 'em to bork....LOL Seriously, I think there's a big value in the idea of separating the computing you need to do to interface with the users from the computing you need to do to get real work done.
In "the olden days" a user logged in and typed in "2+2" and the computer spit out "4" and virtually 100% of the work done by the computer was done adding 2 to 2. Today to get the user to the point of asking the computer what 2 + 2 is, you need the equivalent computing power of what they used to send men to the Moon, to power the user interface, and probably 10000 times the number of lines of code. 99.9999999999% of the work done by computer is getting to the user question. Don't forget they only need Deep Thought to get the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. They needed Earth and Earth Mark II to actually ask the question!!!! Virtually all of the places for borkititude to appear are in the user interface. And since that's the part that users touch, and users are experts at breaking computers - if I can put the back end Linux server that does the real work at the other end of an Ethernet network, far away from the users, it never borks so I never have to bother with a tookit to fix it. And when the users bork the computer running the user interface code - then fixing that is nothing more than a reboot off an install stick. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of MC_Sequoia Sent: Monday, May 15, 2023 3:52 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Subject: [PLUG] Kaisen Linux The distro for IT pros? I recently learned about this distro and checked some reviews. It does have a pretty extensive tool set and it loads it to RAM so you can install it on a b0rK3d Linux box. In a previous IT work life, I used Linux boxes to troubleshoot network problems. I cobbled a dependable toolset together mostly from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Network Monitoring Website, https://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html and late night browsing of the Debian software repository. I've done some troubleshooting and fixing of Linux servers and my own Linux boxes but I've never had what seems to be a rescue distro. The reviews talked a lot about the pre-packaged toolset but not much about how, when to use which tools and if they were the actual tools that could fix real-world Linux problems. I'm curious to know the thoughts of any Linux IT pros about a distro like this or if you'd be interested in sharing a toolset you've cobbled together that you rely on to rescue Linux systems. Thanks, Mike Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.
