Migrating from 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04 on headless Ubuntu server?? + hardware upgrade

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun,  8 Dec 2024 09:07:03 -0500 (EST), Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
wrote:

>The reality is that if one distro works, virtually any other distro will also
>work. *Some* distros might have issues with some hardware -- at this point the
>"tricky" hardware is going to things like WiFi (a non-issue for a hard-wired
>server) and maybe video (again a non-issue) and what sorts of third party
>[server app] software is available in the distro's repo (a non-issue with
>Debian).

I thought that it would work like you describe but was taken aback by what ASUS
listed....

Anyway, now I have to pinpoint the exact model NUC I should choose for this
project.

>For what its worth, I use a RPi5 as my main desktop system.  I also have a 
>RPi4 on my workbench as well.  I just use SSH Tunneling for the other machines 
>and don't use VNC at all.

:)

I also have a bunch of RPix devices, ranging from 3-4-5 and Zero.
>From where I sit I can see 8 of them running....

I also have a box of decommissioned RPi:s too; the first model, (the one one had
to get into a queue to buy back in spring of 2012), and RPi2B.

And I have one RPi5B running too, but I don't see that as a candidate for what I
am after now. I tested running the video download service on it in parallel with
my server, but it turns out that it sometimes chokes on download and fails. This
never happens on the main server, probably because of the CPU differences.

Thanks again for your input and advice!


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden