I'm really, really happy with my current setup of Fedora immutable + toolbox [0]. This tool lets you create rootless containers that are fully integrated with the system, so you have acces to a regular mutable system, can install whatever without layering on the base system, run graphical apps, etc. while still having everything inside a container in your home directory. That means no Flatpak required. Highly recommended.
Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
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#152Since we’re here, does anyone have a good solution for compiling PyInstaller binaries for different Linux distros? Would it be sufficient, say, to use a Ubuntu 16 compiled binary on Ubuntu 18, 20, etc. Presently we use different Docker images for each target distribution, however this is very resource intensive. Our target distros are several versions of Ubuntu, Centos, RockyLinux and Debian.
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For raspberry pi projects, I've used https://fedoraproject.org/iot/ which has some rough edges but is great for runing some podman containers as systemd services. It (and all of fedora IIRC) requires a pi2 or greater (armv7 or v8/aarch64) though. But I haven't actually tried CoreOS on a pi yet, could be interesting.
I actually use Fedora IOT in my datacenter rack to access my switches over LTE in an oh shit scenario. My uptime on my RPi3 B+ has been fantastic with this flavor of Fedora. I plan on switching over to FCOS on a RPi 4 soon tho.
I'm currently running Fedora IoT on a pi4B, it works very well for its purpose (running containerized services on Podman+Nomad). What does CoreOS offer over IoT?
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If you Google it, it's a pretty common phrase referring to magnetic disk as opposed to SSD. Could even be applied to drum, I suppose, if you could still find any...
Can't be that common since I've never come across it in 20+ years.
Very common in the communities I frequent where filesystems like ZFS are discussed, such as https://forum.level1techs.com/ and formerly the ZFS reddit sub, now https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/
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#156I'm less interested in immutable systems and more in pre-configured systems. NixOS with Home Manager is the one that stands out here, but the configuration is just awful. I want to be able to have my full config in source control and know that is the state of my current system, with anything else being wiped on reboot. Anything that's changed before reboot should be highlighted. In my (limited) experience with someth…
Have you tried the nix package manager on silverblue? https://julianhofer.eu/blog/01-silverblue-nix/
This helps keep the (I agree, awful) configuration portion of nix minimal.
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Can't be that common since I've never come across it in 20+ years.
Very common in the communities I frequent where filesystems like ZFS are discussed, such as https://forum.level1techs.com/ and formerly the ZFS reddit sub, now https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/
I can definitely see it being popular in specific groups as a kind of in-group slang. I don't think it's particular popular as a general term though.
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#158Good timing, I'm minutes away from installing openSUSE Aeon. MicroOS Desktop turned into Kalpa (KDE) and Aeon (GNOME), but the latter has all the momentum.
> MicroOS Desktop turned into Kalpa (KDE) and Aeon (GNOME), but the latter has all the momentum. Honestly tying the OS to the desktop environment is the only reason I haven't installed microos. Making a derivative with my preferred DE is on my "maybe someday" list, but that's a long list...
As someone who refuses to use anything except a heavily-customized AwesomeWM setup, I wholeheartedly agree ^_^
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Very common in the communities I frequent where filesystems like ZFS are discussed, such as https://forum.level1techs.com/ and formerly the ZFS reddit sub, now https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/
I can definitely see it being popular in specific groups as a kind of in-group slang. I don't think it's particular popular as a general term though.
I'm sorry, but you are dead wrong.
I would go so far as to say this is the standard informal/slang way to distinguish rotating magnetic media from optical/solid-state media, and off the cuff I'd say it has been since the advent of consumer optical media about 30 years ago.
A definition from a decade and a half ago:
https://etherealmind.com/network-dictionary-spinning-rust/
From 8Y ago:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_spinning_rust.htm
It's in Wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spinning_rust
And Urban Dictionary:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Spinning%20R...