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MC

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Registered: 2015-12-23

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When Stretch goes stable this year...

...will Scorpion be the new stable Q4OS, or is "Scorpion" a testing name? (Like "Sid" will forever be unstable.)

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bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,383

Re: When Stretch goes stable this year...

Sadly I for one will be unable to use the new version - Scorpion and indeed anything based on either 'buntu 16.04 or Debian Testing just goes wrong on my machine. Biggest problem is that it will not respond to Shutdown or Restart commands - just hangs. Either that or fans go into 100% overdrive.

I suspect other owners of older machines will face similar problems.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: When Stretch goes stable this year...

... or is "Scorpion" a testing name?

No it isn't, Scorpion will remain the official code name. At the moment, we are working hard to finish a new Scorpion testing version.

MC

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Registered: 2015-12-23

Posts: 182

Re: When Stretch goes stable this year...

@ Q4OS Team - Thanks for the info.

@ bin - As a matter of fact, the desktop I'm on right now fits the category you mentioned. Over the years, the only OS that would run on it was CrunchBang. Everything else I tried failed miserably. I even tried Manjaro a few years back, but this old dog just couldn't get the hang of Arch.

On a whim back in December, I installed a 32bit Q4OS along side CrunchBang and I'm pleasantly surprised to find it works very well. I deleted the CrunchBang partition after about a week of testing.

I'll have to wait for Scorpion to go stable to find out how it will run on this old machine.

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tlmiller76

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From: AZ, USA

Registered: 2016-11-29

Posts: 459

Re: When Stretch goes stable this year...

Sadly I for one will be unable to use the new version - Scorpion and indeed anything based on either 'buntu 16.04 or Debian Testing just goes wrong on my machine. Biggest problem is that it will not respond to Shutdown or Restart commands - just hangs. Either that or fans go into 100% overdrive.

I suspect other owners of older machines will face similar problems.

What processor you have?  I ask because I run a lot of Debian testing, and EVERYTHING I've tried (3 different machines, 2 of which I still have) based on Broadwell suffers that issue.  And not only in Debian & Ubuntu, but Arch and Fedora as well.  However, all those distro's work fine on anything based on haswell (pre-broadwell) or sky lake (post-broadwell).  So I'm left thinking there are issues with current kernels (I haven't tested 4.9 yet on any OS) with Broadwell chipsets/cpu's.

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bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,383

Re: When Stretch goes stable this year...

We're talking 2007 ish HP 6715b and Dell Inspiron 1501 - both are AMD Turion 64 4gb - probably Bakewell