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TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Which are your preferred laptops?

HP EliteBook 840 G5 or other EliteBook models. Even on Debian everything works fine after a clean install (including special keys), they never die and have a pleasant design. You can get one second hand, modern i7 (8th gen +) CPU + 16 GB of RAM for around 500€.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Kanban board for Linux

I like github.com/apankrat/nullboard very much.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to selfhosted in Need suggestions for VPS

Digital Ocean ?

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Announcing systemd v256

Yes 😂 😂 😂

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Announcing systemd v256

Yeah, I was typing from my phone while being distracted by other people. Fixed now.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Announcing systemd v256

Yes…

• selectel.ru/…/systemd-containers-introduction-sys…
• rucore.net/…/systemd-and-containers-an-introducti…

And now also virtual machines.

TCB13 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to linux in Announcing systemd v256

Yeah, meanwhile I’ll keep using LXD / Incus for both containers and VMs.

Incus has a few advantages: an image repository, a nicer container manager (cli tools) and sane security defaults. By default Incus assumes your containers should be isolated and secure environments while systemd-nspawn is more about quick and dirty containers useful to compile something or run some trusted task.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Announcing systemd v256

I’m just going to point out that besides containers, systemd can now manage virtual machines:

systemd version we added systemd-vmspawn. It’s a small wrapper around qemu, which has the point of making it as nice and simple to use qemu as it is to use nspawn.

The idea is that we provide a roughly command line equivalent interface to VMs as for containers, so that it really is as easy to invoke a VM as it already is to invoke a container, supporting both boot from DDIs and boot from directories.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Nostalgic Distros?

YESS!!

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in TUXEDO on ARM is coming - TUXEDO Computers

I don’t disagree with you, but maybe we can aim for UEFI right now on ALL ARM CPUs/boards from the vendors?

TCB13 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to linux in TUXEDO on ARM is coming - TUXEDO Computers

Not “oh yeah” that’s a major concern and the biggest issue with ARM adoption. SBCs and ARM tablets are a mess when it comes to Linux support and one of the biggest reasons for it is the lack of an UEFI. Long term support as said is another very big concern, if you take any x86 box new or old things will work predictably because the OS doesn’t need to know the details of the boot process / low level hardware control.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to technology in HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware

User error, should’ve got an EliteBook instead of that cheaper thing. :P

TCB13 , 1 month ago to technology in HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware

The irony here is that if you’ve an HP laptop you’ll still need to download certain drivers from HP to get things to work at 100%, for instance you may get all the hardware working after running windows update but your special brightness or wtv keys won’t work unless you go into HP’s website and download a thing.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to selfhosted in just bought a Nanode 1GB from Linode

or here: freedns.afraid.org

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in TUXEDO on ARM is coming - TUXEDO Computers

Will they feature an UEFI?