This one has always been tricky for me, remembering which Raspberry Pi was running which version of Raspbian / Debian.

Two handy commands from this period were:

lsb_release -da

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and:

hostnamectl

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They overlap a little, but they are not exactly the same thing. lsb_release focuses on Linux distribution information, while hostnamectl also reports hostname and operating-system details on systems using systemd. The captures show different releases: Debian GNU/Linux 7.8 (Wheezy) above the Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (Jessie) capture.

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In other news, we hit 41 days uptime before I decided to rebuild the server using Raspbian Jessie Lite. The smaller Lite image suited this little Raspberry Pi web-server setup much better than the larger desktop image I had been using. I guess the full Jessie image was getting a bit too beefy for 4 GB cards with all that bloat!

Every day is a good day to rebuild!

Most of the Take Back the Darknet guide was online by then too, although it still needed plenty of refining.

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