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Re: Talos Linux

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Post by andrewrynhard » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 1:06 AM UTC

mbushey wrote: post #37

I've been looking at Talos for almost a year now. I love the fact there is no shell, each machine is just a K8s node. It seems wonderful, but I can not get it to install. A friend has has the exact same experience, he finally went with Ubuntu and k3s. Has anyone successfully installed it?

Have you tried our Slack fir support?

Re: Talos Linux

#42

Post by accountofme » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 3:06 AM UTC

TruthWillHurt wrote: post #15

So.. it's CoreOS all over again? Or Ubuntu Eucalyptus? (Neither is still with us. wonder why..)

or SmartOS?

Re: Talos Linux

#43

Post by rubicks » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 6:03 PM UTC

pabs3 wrote: post #34

rubicks wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. Was expecting polished Debian-based OS for ppc architecture machines. Shucks.

I would expect Raptor folks to contribute upstream to firmware, the Linux kernel, bootloaders and Debian itself, not make a fork just for their own machines. The Debian ppc64el architecture is an official release architecture so Debian supports those machines quite well already.

That's a fair point. I guess watching System76 PopOS has biased my thinking.

Re: Talos Linux

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Post by pabs3 » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 2:40 AM UTC

rubicks wrote: post #43

pabs3 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would expect Raptor folks to contribute upstream to firmware, the Linux kernel, bootloaders and Debian itself, not make a fork just for their own machines. The Debian ppc64el architecture is an official release architecture so Debian supports those machines quite well already.

That's a fair point. I guess watching System76 PopOS has biased my thinking.

The existence of PopOS is pretty disappointing to me, they should instead be offering a choice of preinstalled distros, contributing to those distros and sponsoring those distros.

Re: Talos Linux

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Post by latchkey » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 6:06 AM UTC

cbarrick wrote: post #16

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... so it wastes memory instead of disk? Unless we are talking about, like, a 100MB ramdisk, why is that a good thing? And really, I'd prefer a 10MB ramdisk.

Diskless servers are not uncommon

I've got over 10k of them. ;-)