today's leftovers
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Jonathan McDowell: Building a read-only Debian root setup: Part 2
This is the second part of how I build a read-only root setup for my router. You might want to read part 1 first, which covers the initial boot and general overview of how I tie the pieces together. This post will describe how I build the squashfs image that forms the main filesystem.
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Sam Hartman: Building Carthage with Carthage
This is the second in a series of blog posts introducing Carthage, an Infrastructure as Code framework I’ve been working on the last four years. In this post we’ll talk about how we use Carthage to build the Carthage container images. We absolutely could have just used a Containerfile to do this; in fact I recently removed a hybrid solution that produced an artifact and then used a Containerfile to turn it into an OCI image. The biggest reason we don’t use a Containerfile is that we want to be able to reuse the same infrastructure (installed software and configuration) across multiple environments. For example CarthageServerRole, a reusable Carthage component that install Carthage itself is used in several places:
- on raw hardware when we’re using Carthage to drive a hypervisor
- As part of image building pipelines to build AMIs for Amazon Web Services
- Installed onto AWS instances built from the Debian AMI where we cannot use custom AMIs
- Installed onto KVM VMs
- As part of building the Carthage container images
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easy.sfs internationalized, langpack PETs abandoned
Right from the early days of Puppy, we tried to keep the puppy*.sfs file as small as possible. We hoped for it to be small enough to load into RAM at bootup, and back in the day, there wasn't much RAM. One strategy to keep the SFS small was for it to be English-only, with translations for a particular language in PET packages -- these PETs were named "langpacks".
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List of Websites About GNU/Linux News, Reviews and Tutorials 2023
This is a list of English websites you can read and subscribe to in 2023 whose topics are about news, reviews, buyer advices and tutorials of GNU/Linux and Free Libre Open Source Software (FOSS) and branded hardware devices around them. This list includes our beloved Ubuntu Buzz and of course along with many other similar and useful sources. You can subscribe to each news via web browser as well as news reader application such as Ubuntu built-in Thunderbird. Finally, we make this to help newcomers learn and old timers revisit again our community and we hope you will like it. Happy reading!