Hi, On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:53:41PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 28/12/2024 10:06, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 08:26:26PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff blind > > > is a > > > pita. I want to SEE whats available. > > I have never in my life felt the need to use synaptic. What am I > > missing out on? > Synaptic is a GUI frontend to apt. It's not really much different to > aptitude, except that it's maybe a bit more mouse-friendly.
That much I know. I am wondering what its killer feature is that Gene wants to work so hard to make it run on a headless single board computer that one would think to be wholly unsuitable for running GUI apps. > > I just use "apt" from a terminal. apticron emails me which updates are > > available. > > > > Running headless servers but still wanting a GUI app on each and every > > one of them to manage updates? Doesn't sound like the Linux I know! > > You can't run a GUI on a headless server. That's the whole point of it > being headless. You can run X clients on the server and remotely > display that on a workstation (i.e. something _with_ a head) I thought it was obvious that was what I was referring to, but clearly not. Even that makes no sense to me in most cases, certainly not in the case of multiple Banana Pi and a desktop that seems to run Wayland. Hence I am suggesting that Gene is going in completely the wrong direction here. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
