Ubuntu and BSD Leftovers
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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The New Stack ☛ Ubuntu 24.10 Refreshes Gnome, Permission Prompts
For decades, Ubuntu has been considered one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions on the market. There are so many good reasons for that, such as a well-designed and executed desktop environment, the simplicity of the apt package manager (as well as the GUI frontend that goes with it), and the impeccable hardware detection.
I’ve used Ubuntu (and Ubuntu-based distributions) for decades and can attest to how easy it is. I’d go so far as to say it’s one of the easiest operating systems on the market. Since Canonical dropped Ubuntu Unity (a desktop environment that I thought was brilliant), it’s enjoyed a level of continuity few operating systems have been able to offer.
That continuity also means the evolution of Ubuntu has been very much on the incremental side. In fact, it’s been a long, long time since Ubuntu has delivered a new feature set that was mind or sock-blowing. It mostly been “same as it ever was” for years.
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ROS Industrial ☛ Official ROS2 Driver Release for Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Robot MELFA: MELFA ROS2 Driver
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BSD
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Benny Siegert ☛ Emulating *BSD on ARM, Part 2: FreeBSD · benzblog
In Part 1 of this blog post series, I explained how I recently spent some time getting various BSD OSes to run on QEMU, for 32-bit ARM (ARMv7). This part deals with FreeBSD.
Spoiler: it was easier than the others.
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Vermaden ☛ Install FreeBSD with One Command
While I like the FreeBSD bsdinstall(8) profile named Auto (ZFS) – there is one thing that I really do not like about it.
The last partition – with FreeBSD system – is filled up to end of device. Its shown below.
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