today's leftovers
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Carson City Linux Users Group
The Carson City Linux Users Group will be meeting Saturday, June 17 at 10:00 AM at the Carson City Public Library. Upstairs in Meeting room 1.
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MALIBAL Aon S1 Review: A Sleek and Slim Linux Laptop [Ed: How-To Geek REVOKED this article about a GNU/Linux laptop. Cached version still online.
The Aon S1 from MALIBAL is a custom-built ultraportable laptop that you can order with Linux pre-installed. While I hadn’t heard of the MALIBAL brand, I mostly enjoyed computing around the house and around town with this Linux laptop—mostly.
After spending two weeks with it, what stood out to me most was the portability and premium feel. There’s an accompanying premium price, and for your money, you get a solid but lightweight build that’s also easy to upgrade and repair. However, the Aon S1 is by no means perfect, with the battery and speakers bringing down the value a little bit. That said, customized with the maximum specs, the Aon S1 impresses with its capabilities as a commuter Linux laptop that approaches being a great general-purpose computer.
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Overall I enjoyed using the Aon S1. Some annoyances came up, like the poor speakers, the panel needing frequent wipe-downs, and the privacy shutter’s noticeable absence. But for the on-the-move open source enthusiast, the highly portable MALIBAL Aon S1 with its solid build is certainly worth consideration.
There are other Linux laptops out there, including Purism’s security-focused Librem 14. It has a similar form factor but also a weaker CPU and no dedicated GPU option and is more expensive at that. If instead of the Aon S1’s base configuration you went with our favorite laptop, the Dell XPS 13, you could save $210 but get a lesser CPU, a smaller and lower-res screen, and fewer ports. That said, the XPS 13 notably includes Wi-Fi 6E support, a fingerprint reader, and better speakers.
The real value in any Linux laptop, though, is freedom from being locked in anyone’s ecosystem. You also have the freedom to repair and modify your laptop how you see fit (the XPS 13’s parts are soldered together). This also lets you spread out costs: you can choose the most inexpensive configuration and upgrade incrementally when you can afford it or with parts you already have. If you want to get on the road with your PC while getting away from Microsoft and Apple’s reach, the MALIBAL Aon S1 just might be your ticket.
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Linux Action News 294
Microsoft's new Linux server distro, Red Hat Summit 2023 highlights, big changes at CodeWeavers, and Podman catches up to Docker Desktop.
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Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go
As part of bringing myself up-to-speed after joining TigerBeetle, I wanted some background on how distributed consensus and replicated state machines protocols work. TigerBeetle uses Viewstamped Replication. But I wanted to understand all popular protocols and I decided to start with Raft.
We'll implement two key components of Raft in this post (leader election and log replication). Around 1k lines of Go. It took me around 7 months of sporadic studying to come to (what I hope is) an understanding of the basics.
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Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2023)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- James Lu (jlu)
- Hugh McMaster (hmc)
- Agathe Porte (gagath)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Soren Stoutner
- Matthijs Kooijman
- Vinay Keshava
- Jarrah Gosbell
- Carlos Henrique Lima Melara
- Cordell Bloor
Congratulations!
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Ubuntu Blog: Secure containerised Ceph with Ubuntu container images
As we announced at Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam, Canonical has started to make container images for Ceph available. We received lots of questions at the booth about what it means to the average Ceph user who has or wants to deploy Ceph on Ubuntu.
In this blog post, we will cover the benefits to users who are running containerised Ceph on Ubuntu, and specifically how these images can provide an improved security posture.