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TCB13 , 2 months 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 , 2 months ago to linux in Nostalgic Distros?

YESS!!

TCB13 , 2 months 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 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months 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 , 2 months 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 , 2 months 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 , 2 months ago to selfhosted in just bought a Nanode 1GB from Linode

or here: freedns.afraid.org

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linux in TUXEDO on ARM is coming - TUXEDO Computers

Will they feature an UEFI?

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linux in Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges from Tuxedo:12-core CPU with 32GB RAM and surprise, surprise, Debian

My other answer here: lemmy.world/comment/10549598

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linux in Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges from Tuxedo:12-core CPU with 32GB RAM and surprise, surprise, Debian

Anything proprietary will face issues, games being the more obvious one. And you’ll also run into the issue that a lot Linux users do virtualize Windows from time to time and that’s gonna be harder and worse.

To be frank that’s not my main concern here. It’s the fact that ARM vendors aren’t supporting UEFI and that’s a mess that people usually don’t think about. Right now you’ve kernel tweaks to support the boot specifics and low level shenanigans of ARM-xyz.

This a problem, there’s much more brands developing ARM chips and boards nowadays than we ever had with intel/amd and the PC vendors were still kind of forced into adopting a unified interface. It’s not feasible to make the OS support hundreds of specific boards and their details. I just hope that Microsoft forces Qualcomm into baking in a proper UEFI so other brands will follow and we finally can treat ARM based stuff as mostly generic systems.

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linux in Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges from Tuxedo:12-core CPU with 32GB RAM and surprise, surprise, Debian

I’m all for ARM and having thin laptops / tablets running full desktop Linux… however it’s going to be a pain, there’s a LOT of X86_64 software out there that is hard to get running on ARM with decent performance. And some of those things can’t get ported.

Besides that the ARM ecosystem is a fucking mess of companies who don’t want to implement a generic UEFI thus you’ll never get generic support from OSes like there is on x86. I believe this this is the defining moment of ARM, when the CPU makers actually make UEFI a requirement and we no longer have to do the hacks and nonsenses we see on SBCs to get those CPUs running.

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linux in Linux really has come a long way

I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went.

I don’t get your surprise. With a decent laptop like the one you have everything will work properly. You can even load something more stable like Debian into that and it will work just fine on the first attempt. No changes required.

The issue with stuff “not working out of the box” is usually related to people using unbranded potatoes or very old hardware with modern distros.

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in the fear of missing out a better compression

Great summary, but I’ve to add that NTFS is WAY more stable than ext4 when it comes to hardware glitches and/or power failures. ZFS is obviously superior to both but overkill for most people, BTRFS should be a nice middle ground and now even NAS manufacturers like Synology are migrating ext4 into BTRFS.

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linux in Wait... why does Linux-libre (and #Freedo) exist?

Fair enough :)

TCB13 , 2 months ago to selfhosted in What can I make out of a Old Pentium D desktop

Total e-waste and a power draw (almost constant 95W). Even a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B can beat it to oblivion:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/59448465-4373-46f6-a58a-dec35fc8774f.png

browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/6390478?base…