This is an interesting os to try under a RaspBerry Pi,
altough if it had an audio player and a ssh/telnet client
plus a supported wireless driver, it would be enough
for my dailt tasks. Altough today a lot can be done
with a Wifi232 and a FPGA implemented retro machine.
On 10/5/2020 12:14 PM, anthk wrote:
This is an interesting os to try under a RaspBerry Pi,
altough if it had an audio player and a ssh/telnet client
plus a supported wireless driver, it would be enough
for my dailt tasks. Altough today a lot can be done
with a Wifi232 and a FPGA implemented retro machine.
I prefer Raspbian myself.
This is an interesting os to try under a RaspBerry Pi,
altough if it had an audio player and a ssh/telnet client
plus a supported wireless driver, it would be enough
for my dailt tasks. Altough today a lot can be done
with a Wifi232 and a FPGA implemented retro machine.
I prefer Raspbian myself.
ya, I figure if one has an rpi they might as well use raspbian os ... hell, I even use raspbian pc on my x86_64 :-o
~Mortifis
paulie420 wrote to Mortifis <=-
I use Raspberry Pi's for many things around my home network. I haven't seen or tried HelenOS; but it seems like theres many new, niche OSes popping up for RPi's that... IMO aren't very worthy; however I don't
know HelenOS.
For around the price of a rPi, I bought a used thinkpad with a broken
keyboard, maxxed the RAM out and loaded Proxmox on it. I'm running
PiHole on it, as well as several other OSes. It sits folded up under
my router, making a compact little homelab.
I hear there's a rPi version of ESXi, with enough memory it might
make more sense to run bare metal virtualization - then you could run
whatever OS you want?
paulie420 wrote to Mortifis <=-
I use Raspberry Pi's for many things around my home network. I haven't seen or tried HelenOS; but it seems like theres many new, niche OSes popping up for RPi's that... IMO aren't very worthy; however I don't know HelenOS.
For around the price of a rPi, I bought a used thinkpad with a broken
keyboard, maxxed the RAM out and loaded Proxmox on it. I'm running
PiHole on it, as well as several other OSes. It sits folded up under
my router, making a compact little homelab.
I hear there's a rPi version of ESXi, with enough memory it might
make more sense to run bare metal virtualization - then you could run
whatever OS you want?
... Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Alpine Linux would be better suited than raspbian or dietpi, specially
on setups with high I/O writting, as Alpine allows to run from RAM
and just write the differences with 'lbu commit -d',
saving a lot of writting cycles on an SD.
paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I actually also bought several ThinkPad T430s machines, specced them
out like you described... and I even upgrade the monitors to a
1920x1080 full ips display - I have to order this connector from china, but I haven't had any issues with them; some others have had the
display do funny stuff but... I've been lucky. For ME, the i7-3520 processors my ThinkPads have handles most any Linux stuff I need them
to do. I *love* the ThinkPad platform... and probably will buy a
current model at some point... a T480 or something like that.
I hear there's a rPi version of ESXi, with enough memory it might
make more sense to run bare metal virtualization - then you could run
whatever OS you want?
I'm not familiar with ESXi or proxmox; although I have heard of proxmox before, I don't exactly know what tasks it performs of why I might need it. :P Lol.
Moondog wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Another used hardware alternative is getting used thni clients from
ebay or other liquidators. They are powerful enough to be used as
netowrk appliances or other light duty applicaitons.
I actually also bought several ThinkPad T430s machines, specced them out like you described... and I even upgrade the monitors to a 1920x1080 full ips display - I have to order this connector from chin but I haven't had any issues with them; some others have had the display do funny stuff but... I've been lucky. For ME, the i7-3520 processors my ThinkPads have handles most any Linux stuff I need them to do. I *love* the ThinkPad platform... and probably will buy a current model at some point... a T480 or something like that.
I can't seem to get rid of my T410; it's a boat anchor compared to
the newer models, but I love the keyboard. It's got an i7, the only
real issue is that it maxxes out at 8 GB of RAM. I'd love it if I
could get it up to 16.
I have a 16gb T480 from work, they are nice systems.
paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
The T440 is even better, and I guess if I was buying CURRENTLY I'd go
for a current T480... what CURRENT ThinkPad do you think is worthy of a purchase?
The T480s is a hell of a laptop, but I'm thinking about a Dell, for a
simple reason - now that I'm working from home, I work out on my deck
a lot, do a lot of video calls with it, and a black laptop gets hot
fast!
paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I really like the Dell XPS line; and they even have a developer version running some form of linux; its pretty cheap even.
I had one of the original XPS13 Developer editions (l321x), and it ran Ubuntu flawlessly. I built a developer image on it for a couple of
dozen engineers at a former company and they loved them.
paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I had one of the original XPS13 Developer editions (l321x), and it ran Ubuntu flawlessly. I built a developer image on it for a couple of
dozen engineers at a former company and they loved them.
Might be a dumb question, but to create an image for install on other machines later - do I just install an OS, install all packages I want included and then backup the entire drive to an IMG?
Might be a dumb question, but to create an image for install on other machines later - do I just install an OS, install all packages I want included and then backup the entire drive to an IMG?
Essentially, yes.
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