Yeah, I like /var to be in it’s own partition so I can keep my system(s) under close control, and a separate /boot seems to be necessary these *EFI days

Yeah, don’t get me wrong… many a time I’ve had to boot gparted and resize partitions, but, the system isn’t affected if you download too much and / or you don’t lose data if the system’s full.

I’d go 1 step further and insist on putting home on a separate partition anyway - helps with issues like running out of diskspace.

To answer the original question, boot the distro’s ISO from a USB stick and try that (/those) before you actually install anything. You might find some hardware’s not supported (ie wifi) until you do a full install, but at least you can eliminate the distros you don’t like, quickly.

Or Linux from Scratch?

You might want to check out ListenBrainz

Yeah, mirroring the other comment here -it’s standalone app everytime for me. I’m a bit of a power user, so maybe it’s the extra functionality that just can’t be handled in a browser which already has 20 other tabs open, but live colab is … well, just not used that often.

Sure, we’ll be tweaking cells in a spreadsheet now & again, but my technical documents are done by one person, then reviewed (comments, track changes, etc) by others for the audit trail.

And I’m just not going to purchase a Microsoft product again.

But I will contribute to Open Source… ODF has done great things.

Something to help visualise BTRFS volumes & sub-volumes (ie, free-space, etc)

I have a single connection to the 'net, hence a single firewall.

I’ve port scanned my firewall (externally) when travelling for work, so I’ve verified what’s exposed and verified that GeoIP works (forgot to enable a region before travelling there), so I’ve reached the point where I’m happy with this setup

Fair point, I neglected to mention that I have >1 Public IP The firewall directs traffic as required.

Kinda Scenario 1 is the standard way: firewall at the perimeter with separately isolated networks for DMZ, LAN & Wifi

The Firewall provides a proxy for anything in the DMZ, so all the filtering is done there and not on the DMZ device(s).

GeoIP on the firewall, so anything that’s opened to the interweb - inc. inbound VPNs can only come from selected regions.

Fail2Ban on DMZ device(s), to prevent repeated login attacks.

Wifi has multiple SSIDs to block / permit outbound access to the internet (IoT stuff), LAN (Guests), etc.

Then regular updates / patching / backups…

This still makes me laugh:

It’ll either be military or industrial… neither want to replace “perfectly operational“ tech for ~10 years.

To take that a little further, I recruit on enthusiasm, experience then certs last.

There’s too many “experts” out there that I might not be able to fire due to employment laws.

Certs are what I’d train my team for, to show to our clients.

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Er… thanks?

In other articles, I’m reading that Banana Pi quality control isn’t that great, so I’m currently feeling that this might not be boards I am looking for

I’d like to replace my router as it’s only acting as a PPPoE modem for my pfSense box - this looks a bit of overkill, but interested if there’s other (open) options?

I know it’s been a while, but I recently saw an article where tuxedo create their own firmware, so you might need to look into that.

The article is all about a GPL license problems tuxedo were facing because they create their own firmware using a a different license - not sure how thatls affects you, but that might be the root issue

link to Phoronix article

For which shell? I just tried that on a bash system and the command was still stored in .bash_history 😔

Just on your Enlightenment point there, I tried Bodhi Linux a few years ago because the Enlightenment desktop looked really good, but over time they (Bodhi) had to create their own desktop because Enlightenment appeared to have almost stopped work.

Might be something for you to check out…?

But, surely Windows is the wrong OS?

Windows is a per-user GUI… supercomputing is all about crunching numbers, isn’t it?

I can understand M$ trying to get into this market and I know Windows server can be used to run stuff, but again, you don’t need a GUI on each node a supercomputer they’d be better off with DOS…?

Wha?

(searches interwebs)

Wow, that completely passed me by…