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[utu]

Seems that mainstream Linux is turning into ever more of a buggy beast these days. Maybe not entirely coincidental.

There is an even more toxic situation in Ubuntu-derived systems. IMO.
I've noticed in current & recent Mint and Ubuntu offerings that these systems check for 'low-memory corruption',
apparently mark the containing partition's filesystem as corrupt if it detects some impurity there,
and refuses to boot a system on the hardware having this alleged corruption,
even with kernel commands to ignore and to not use the alleged corrupted memory.
This absolutely discriminates against any hardware which has this alleged impurity from mounting these systems.
Also kills an elegant remastering scheme I had hoped to use.

So far, my Knoppixes don't seem to be checking for 'low-memory corruption' and have no similar problems.
My shut-down difficulties arise when I somehow lock my keyboard, and can't shut-down. When I remember
the REISUB trick, I can sometimes survive this, but not always. Minimizing my read/write persistenc exposure
is my general adaptation to shut-down problems.