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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » September 4th, 2023, 11:11 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO9fTnMxwYw

Tails Linux USB with Persistence

// MENU //
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - What Is Tails?
02:40 - Tails Installation Tutorial
05:52 - Boot into BIOS
07:22 - Boot into Tails
07:30 - Create Persistent Storage
08:09 - Tor Connection
09:18 - Tails Installed

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » September 4th, 2023, 11:18 am

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-pr ... ributions/

Qubes, Whonix, or Tails: which Linux distro should you use to stay anonymous?
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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » September 9th, 2023, 11:25 am

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/08/ ... kpad_x13s/

REVIEW The latest release of Armbian helps with the non-trivial problem of installing and running an arbitrary Linux distro on Arm computers.

The Lenovo Thinkpad X13S Generation 1 which we reviewed back in March is the first mainstream Arm-powered laptop that the Reg FOSS Desk has got to evaluate. There are other Arm-based laptops out there, such as Pine64's Pinebook Pro and various Arm-powered ChromeBooks, but the X13S is closer to an ordinary X86-based laptop: it has a decent spec, with 16GB of RAM, a 256GB NVMe SSD – plus PC-industry-standard UEFI firmware, which is still relatively unusual on consumer Arm computers. Better still, you can disable Secure Boot, which many Arm-powered devices don't allow. A decade ago, this was a critical problem with the original Microsoft Surface RT: Windows RT was a flop, and the firmware wouldn't let you run anything else.
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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » September 15th, 2023, 7:06 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFx6R26aRHw

Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How good is Asahi now?

00:00 Intro
00:44 Sponsor: Stream any OS or desktop to your browser
01:40 Asahi Linux
02:58 Install
05:15 Hardware support
07:55 Performance & Battery Life
09:33 GPU & Gaming
11:57 App support
13:04 Is it ready yet?
14:45 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux
15:51 Support the channel

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » September 27th, 2023, 12:19 pm

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/26/ ... port_2023/

...OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT This year's Kernel Report at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao revealed the long-term support releases of the Linux kernel will soon not be that long at all.

Referring back to the list of stable kernels, which goes back about six years, Linux Weekly News editor Jonathan Corbet said:

They have come to the conclusion that there's really no point in maintaining them that long, because people are not using them. So the six-year update policy is going away. When 4.14 goes out of support… early next year… there will not be another six-year kernel to replace it. We're likely to go back to a long-term stable kernel maintained for about two years. After that, people will simply be expected to update to a newer kernel.

The new regime
When 4.19 reaches its end of life, so will 5.4, leaving the end-of-2020 kernel 5.10 the oldest longterm release. This change was discussed at the time, but now it looks like what is essentially the worst-case outcome has been chosen...
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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » September 28th, 2023, 9:47 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtOEmUqASQ
RPi 5 review
Contents:

00:00 - Pi 5's uphill battle
00:45 - What's new?
03:51 - What's different?
05:43 - Power
07:34 - Performance
10:17 - Thermals, new Case, Active Cooler
11:59 - Efficiency
12:51 - GPU and Pi OS performance
13:57 - PCIe: Go big or go home
16:43 - IO: USB, microSD, GPIO, and RP1
19:27 - Camera and comparisons


Explaining Computers review here..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYfQ7bRgZg

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby ReformedCharacter » September 28th, 2023, 1:01 pm

Infrasonic wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtOEmUqASQ
RPi 5 review

Explaining Computers review here..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYfQ7bRgZg

Thanks, I've got various Pis and Picos, this one looks pretty impressive. Amazing what an inexpensive SBC can do now. I need an excuse to buy one :)

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » September 29th, 2023, 11:01 am

ReformedCharacter wrote:
Infrasonic wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtOEmUqASQ
RPi 5 review

Explaining Computers review here..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYfQ7bRgZg

Thanks, I've got various Pis and Picos, this one looks pretty impressive. Amazing what an inexpensive SBC can do now. I need an excuse to buy one :)

RC


I want to build a very small portable NAS (with battery capability) - all solid state with M.2 SSD's. The introduction of more SBC bandwidth and things like PCIe support is starting to make it more doable... :)

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby 1nvest » October 9th, 2023, 4:38 pm

staffordian wrote:And finally (for now, at least!) how does a dual boot work.

There are options to install systems to a usb stick and boot that. I use fuguita (OpenBSD), so boots a pristine clean system at each reboot and runs in ram so its very quick once booted. The initial bootup is slow however, as its reads from usb into ram, much quicker for a external ssd. Power on PC, go and make a cup of tea type style of bootup. Or for a laptop just close the lid rather than powering down/rebooting.

fuguita isn't a recommendation however, unless you're from a Unix/BSD background/preference.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » October 14th, 2023, 6:35 pm

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2-Released

OpenZFS 2.2 was promoted to stable today as the latest major update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. With OpenZFS 2.2 comes many exciting new features, performance improvements, and other enhancements for this evolution of open-source ZFS.

OpenZFS 2.2 introduces block cloning support for allowing files or portions of files to be used for reflinks / file-level copy-on-write handling. OpenZFS 2.2 also adds Linux container support with various Linux-specific container interfaces now supported, support for OverlayFS, IDMAPPED mounts in a user name-space, and other features.
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Linux Tiger vnc brings new life to a old laptop

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Postby 1nvest » October 24th, 2023, 1:03 am

Oldish laptop (ES15 AMD Radeon) 3GB, slow HDD, but solid Acer hardware. Wifi connects, Linux (Fatdog) loads/runs in ram and ... isn't so bad. Usable, but some web pages such as yahoo finance are sluggish to load/scroll.

Installed Fatdog also onto a desktop i5, nvidia, SSD, 8GB, hard wired (ethernet) 'server'. On both systems installed tigervnc (vncserver, vncviewer) and on the server ...

Xephyr :2 & # start another X in the background
PIDofX=$! # record its PID
sleep 2 # allow time for X to start
DISPLAY=:2 vncserver :3 & # start vnc on display 3 (vnc port 5903)
DISPLAY=:3 cwm & # start cwm window manager
kill $PIDofX # we're done with that X

and connect to that on the laptop (wifi connected)
vncviewer 192.168.1.4:5903 # I've set the servers IP as being reserved in the Virgin hub admin

... and start chrome within that ... and its REALLY quick. F8 (settings) and using Tight compression, level 2, jpeg level 8, and the bandwidth being used is around 2MB (16Mbit) when a lot of screen changes are occurring, much lower when just browsing (lemonfool/whatever).

Basically the powerful server is downloading and rendering web pages quickly and throwing those screens at the laptop that doesn't have to do much more than just load those screens into the display and handle the keyboard/mouse (touchpad). Which combined is quicker than if the laptop uses its own browser to download and render/load web pages. And another family member can still use the desktop system at the same time, other than the initial loading (Xephyr, that's killed) there's near no indication of me also using that box via my laptop, other than a bit more cpu activity. Another nice feature is that you can disconnect, return later and re-vnc back into the server to be back where you left off, old tmux style (ssh into servers).

Sound is a issue though, as If I'm watching a youtube on the laptop and someone on the desktop is also doing similar, then they hear both youtube sound tracks. So I just turn off sound in chrome on the laptop (settings, privacy and security, site settings, additional content settings, sound)

I basically use the laptop as a couch device, and it now runs as quick as the desktop. As does libreoffice load/run much quicker if I use the servers version. With the laptop distant from the wifi hub I still get internet download speed tests of around 135Mbs....

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:)

PS there is a VirtualGL addition you can add to that, so it renders 3D (Blender, SuperTuxKart racing ... type programs) and injects that into X, where you can get a decent (usable) frame rate.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » November 12th, 2023, 9:57 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4btW5x_clpg

Imagine all of your favorite operating systems in one place, available anywhere on your network, and you'll never need to use your flash drive again. That's the promise of netboot.xyz, a network boot service that lets you install or boot to any operating system simply by booting to the network.
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Re: Why Linux?

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