Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Stephen Partington
On a whim I rolled back to my kernel from when It was last running 16.04 successfully (for some reason I thought this would not work) and the server is up and running. Now to find out what was not included to load my disk subsystem. On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:48 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > wei

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Stephen Partington
weird. I currently have no issues with networking. and technically it is not an emulation layer. It is supposed to be an api set or something that runs a Linux kernel under windows natively. On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 2:42 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Last time I tried WSL was with getting this lapto

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Michael Butash
Last time I tried WSL was with getting this laptop a few years ago. As a network guy, I sort of just sat there stunned that the frigging thing couldn't network. Why the hell would you make a linux emulation layer that couldn't network? Is this still Ballmer-hate? What the hell is good in this d

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Stephen Partington
well microsoft has made good improvements with WSL and you can do some neat things like that On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:27 AM Michael Butash wrote: > Upgrading to 18.04 broke like everything for me (kde, wm, graphics > drivers), it's what single-handedly drove me to arch, so ymmv. > > My experie

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

2019-12-10 Thread Michael Butash
Upgrading to 18.04 broke like everything for me (kde, wm, graphics drivers), it's what single-handedly drove me to arch, so ymmv. My experience with arch hasn't been much better of late, so take it for what you will. Arch updates blew up my desktop, and my laptop I'm afraid to reboot as my last w