The Debian upgrade has been completed.  The shell server debian.eskimo.com is now “buster“, otherwise known as Debian 10.  It seems generally crisper.  I only had to sacrifice two programs to get it fully upgraded, eclipse an ide that wants jdk8, and buster is now jdk11, and a game, the name of which slips my mind now.

     Debian.eskmo.com is in the process of an upgrade from “stretch” to “buster”.  I did not expect it to interfere with service but it is currently not allowing logins.  I expect the upgrade to be completed sometime early this evening.

     X2go is fixed on Zorin.

     I’m banned from x2go-users list because I dared to disagree with Lord King Master Stephan Baur, the project owner. What will I do with the rest of my life? I know, I’ll install Guacamole on all my servers which provides the same functionality without the need for special client software except for an ordinary HTML5 compliant browser such as Firefox, Chrome, or Edge. Wait! I’ve already done that!

     To get a Desktop remote session on our shell servers, go to https://www.eskimo.com/ and from the Web Apps pull down menu, select Desktop or Terminal Sessions, use “public” for both the login and password, then select the server you wish and login with your normal login and password.

     One customer, who was migrating from centos6 to ubuntu, brought it to my attention that pine was not present on ubuntu and alpine had an unworkable default configuration.  I have fixed this not only on Ubuntu but on the rest of the shell servers as well.

     The installation of x2goserver on zorin.eskimo.com is presently broken.  Unlike other systems in which this occurred simply purging and re-installing did not fix.  I am working on correcting this problem.  In the meantime, if you need graphical access to this machine, use the web interface under web-apps on our website at https://www.eskimo.com/.

     GoodVibes is now installed on mint.eskimo.com.

     As with the other systems, x2go is required to use this or it can be accessed via the visual or terminal access in our Web Apps menu on our website.

     In the process of installing this I found that the meson, gstreamer, and x2go applications and libraries were all broken on Mint and I fixed these issues.

     GoodVibes is now on julinux.yellow-snow.net.  To use it you need to connect with a graphical client that supports audio.  I recommend X2Go from https://x2go.org/.  X2Go is free and open source. It is available for Linux, Windows, and MacOS.  If you use either Mate or Gnome Desktops, GoodVibes is available under the Internet -> Audio and Video menu.

     As with debian and ubuntu, in the process of installing this I fixed some things missing from the meson build environment.