today's leftovers
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Today the default choice for a terminal program is Gnome Terminal
You can make a case for KDE's konsole on much the same reasons, but I think KDE and konsole are less widely used and so you're more likely to run into issues in distributions and with programs. You can get rid of the distribution issues by using a Linux distribution (not an alternate 'spin' of a distribution) that focuses on KDE, which will likely take care to make sure their choice of default fonts works well with konsole and so on. I'm not sure there are very many of these left, though.
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Developing your RHEL image builder strategy
I remember when I carried around a set of DVDs with different operating system disks. Eventually, that became a stack of flash drives with the installers. Nowadays, I don't need to worry about that as much because I utilize the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) image builder tool to manage my operating system lifecycle.
You've heard us talk a lot about the future of RHEL and the installation experience. Overhauling your server lifecycle process may as well start at the very beginning with image creation. Image builder supports multiple formats and destinations.
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Launch OpenBSD vmd Guests on Demand from SSH
I was annoyed that Electron apps Other people are annoyed that Signal doesn’t exist and wrote helpful writeups. don’t run on my OpenBSD laptop so I decided to run them inside a virtual machine. Unfortunately, this laptop is underpowered by 2023 standards & persistent Linux virtual machines would be competing with all the other memory hogs. gopls
I’d been kicking around the idea of using an ssh ProxyCommand to launch transient EC2 instances connected to long-lived EBS volumes so I figured – why not implement this for vmd hosts? I could forward Linux X11 apps to my desktop & be able to use Signal.