You are correct - its a IBM/RH problem. almaLinux is just the receipient A long time ago I used to evaluate Fedora releases - If you offered a suggestion or cited an issue the Kids at Fedora just shot the messenger - problem solved. I just ignored Fedora and assumed it to be a bad joke.
I am going to sign up to do testing for "almaLinux", I would like to see it succeed. On the positive side: While we were testing almaLinux we did a minimal install and it was easy, quick, and it all worked. We were able to use it as a headless server without any issues. Its been running for a month with out issue. The real OS behind the Gnome desktop is alive and well. My analysis of the install "option" "partition" is that there is some bad C++ code in the linux world that deals with setting up partitions and directories. This same flaw exists in a number of distrobutions as part of other higher level functions such ad Mint that we evaluated. My guess is that it is a bad throw that is never received and never removed. In Mint when you remove / install / remove an application it erases all files on all mounted disks. Larry Linder On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 02:43 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 3:31 PM Larry Linder > <00000dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > > > Another linux installation and test. > > > > AlmaLinux 8.3 > > The misfeatures you've groused about are not due to AlmaLinux, they're > straight RHEL problems. Let's assign blame and credit where they are > due. > > > Inspecting the directories we found that several mount points were > > missing and the disks we wanted to mount, no format, to preserve the > > data were empty. This even included the disk that contained the .iso > > file we installed from! This is really bull shit code. > > How can on take a very simple working function that has worked for 20 > > years and basterdize it to the point of being less than worthless. Does > > anyone check their work - it compiles without errors - ship it - Why do > > you hire minions? > > That is the fault of feature craze going on with anaconda and breaking > some formerly useful features. You can defeat this by using a > kickstart file, but it's a pain. > > > 6. To be kind to the Gnome desktop - it is another convuleted ugly > > abortion. To get simple stuff done takes a dozen mouse clicks. You > > can't easily setup anything. You are simply using the IBM computer - > > just like "Bill's" computer. > > Oh, heck, that's why I publish RPMs for tvtwm.
