Consider PCLinuxOS. ‘PLOS’ has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

• as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it’s derivation from RH is super long ago so it’s closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

• it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose’s vocal range compared to EL’s Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

• No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

It can yum cron like a badass.

Caveats:

• if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
• people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
• people who support last week’s version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there’s no magical fix for “10 second tom” devs here either.

That’s funny. When the maintainer of AT&T unix’s perf group was looking at a distro to clone and support, RPM>Deb was 90% why debs were excluded.

Maybe something changed dramatically since then.

I think some of my units are on the ‘lgtm’ update plan too. ;-)

I’m aware I’m jinxing myself when I suggest that I’ve had very different experience. We’re mostly WDReds though.

Soon as I see the ‘literally’ I usually predict how it’s going to go.

While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it’s not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.

There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.

• Texas power grid has been systematically gutted
• regulation and inspections are defunded, as Texas refuses the inspections required to join the nations power exchange as a peer.

And the big one

• now they’re not exchanging power, they have to buy from their rich constituents, at a premium, and they gut the bank accounts of your tax money

They’re set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.

Kinda orthogonal but I will say it’s weird that we can still vote with our wallets.

the data only goes back to 1979 and has not yet been verified by NOAA which has data going back to 1880.

There’s a whole hot world outside of America who don’t need to wait for its underfunded organizations to get around to validating the data.

But I get it. The news is dire. It’s neat to cling to uncertainty in times like this unless you lived in Lytton

Yes. Our 12% will really make a difference vs corporations’ 80%. And we can get to that 12% if so 8 billion of us work together. I’m doing my 0.0000001% part!

There’s a lot of value in a sleeping area that can get really really dark.

I’m ever so grateful for electrical tape.