[kwlug-disc] Debian "testing" -- not bad

[William Park]

On 2025-12-27 23:59, Doug Moen wrote:
> I am actually running Kinoite as a daily driver, and I can install 
> packages in the base system just fine.

OK,**I installed Kinoite on VirtualBox.  Few things I discovered:

  * Main images show up as entries in GRUB boot page.  Normally, it
    would be kernels.  Now, it's images.  You just select which images
    to boot from.

  * Each image is 7GB, and it adds up.  I'm already 17Gb, and I haven't
    done much.

  * /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the main image and inside Toolbox are
    different.  So, devices that I mount will have different owner/group
    in the main image and inside Toolbox.  It was pain to resolve all
    the "Permission denied", and there are few I'm not gonna bother.

  * This "Kinoite" smells like "Chromebook".  It's OK for consumer use case.

I'm now compiling few Raspberry Pi kernels...  Let's see how it goes.

*NOTE*:

I think, it's just shifting problems.  You now have 2 systems. You are 
still doing "dnf" inside Toolbox.  How do you deal with Toolbox getting 
corrupted?

Perhaps, a better solution is to borrow from database.  Tag all items 
with version number.  Then, to rollback, you just go back to a working 
version number.
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