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cmeerw , to linux in Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust

So they actually rewrote The Hurd in Rust.

cmeerw , to linux in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

There is no reason to “hate” Ubuntu but there are better choices.

What are those better choices then (for those who currently use the non-LTS Ubuntu releases and don’t want to move to rolling releases or LTS-only releases)?

cmeerw , to linux in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

I still think Ubuntu is the best option (particularly if you want to use the non-LTS releases)

Having said that I do hate snaps and also dislike flatpaks. So what I do is just use the Firefox deb package from the PPA and the chromium package from Linux Mint. Oh, and I have actually replaced ubuntu-advantage-tools with a no-op dummy package.

cmeerw , to linux in Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

Only issue is they’re stored in my server as belonging to the server user (I assume everything in those directories should belong to root and I can just use chown?) But I also don’t know if they retain the same permissions when backed up.

Not everything will be owned by root, and some of the binaries will be setuid or setgid, some might even have extended attributes (e.g. ping will usually have a security.capability attribute). /var will also have a lot of different owners.

cmeerw , to linux in The Paperweight Dilemma: Original Pinephone might lose future kernel updates if devs can't pay down tech debt

And mainline Linux and a Linux Desktop is still struggling today with power management. Like getting chat messages while it’s asleep.

And the really sad thing is that the power management improvements devs have been working on for the PinePhone are really very specific to that particular device and don’t help mobile Linux in general (so it’s basically wasted effort).

cmeerw , to selfhosted in Best free/cheap web host for DIY email

I use them as IMAP storage for a few mailing lists I am subscribed to (but not for my main emails), but they do reject legitimate emails from time to time (not often, but it does happen - and those emails don’t show up in “Spam” or any logs).

cmeerw , to selfhosted in Best free/cheap web host for DIY email

I have had pretty good experience with hosting an email server on AlphaVPS, InceptionHosting and just now GreenCloudVPS.

GreenCloudVPS currently have a promotion until Sunday, and there are usually promotions around Black Friday on LowEndSpirit and LowEndTalk

cmeerw , to linux in What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?

Jed when you want a simple, Emacs-like editor.

cmeerw , to selfhosted in Oracle keeps changing the idle requirements for compute instances

At least for memory usage the hypervisor wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between memory merely used as cache vs. memory actually used by the software running on the machine (and OSes will usually just use any otherwise unused memory as cache, so you will likely see some inflated memory usage)

cmeerw , to selfhosted in Oracle keeps changing the idle requirements for compute instances

How do they actually get that information (particularly memory utilization)? Do they rely on their agent that’s pre-installed (but can be uninstalled)? At least in their web interface it doesn’t show any of that utilization for my instances (one is Ubuntu with their agent uninstalled and the other one is NetBSD).

cmeerw , to linux in Issue Tracking System for Linux

There is also Roundup Issue Tracker

cmeerw , to selfhosted in Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?

I am actually using a OrangePiPC as:

  • WLAN access point (hostapd)
  • LTE Internet via a E3372 USB dongle
  • radio via DVB-T dongle/Internet
  • USB speakers for the radio
  • Bluetooth dongle to connect to Bluetooth-enabled speaker in another room
  • USB temperature sensor, motion sensors via GPIO
  • VoIP telephone with connected USB headset
  • small LCD display to show the current temperature and incoming call information
cmeerw , to linux in What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?

jed

cmeerw , to linux in older laptop distro recommendarion

You don’t really need to switch to a different distro. Just avoid snaps/flatpack/… and use a more lightweight desktop like XFCE and you should be fine.

cmeerw , to linux in Ubuntu 23.10 Won’t Use Snap Printing Stack After All

Don’t believe everything you hear. It’s still available as a .deb: launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

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