Barry Kauler

> There's no mention of Raspberry Pi in the website https://bkhome.org/news/202101/easyos-dunfell-26-released-for-the-rasp… > even a Pi3B with 1GB RAM will work, or rather "just work" -- I recommend at least a Pi4 with 2GB RAM -- I have the 8GB RAM board. EasyOS is a container-focused OS with its own in-house containerization mechanism,[2] and it's seemingly not designed for or aimed at Pis specifically.

Very enlightening. Absorbed it at the time and followed up with experimentation ever since. Edit: experimentation was underway long before this was published. there's also a Part 2: https://bkhome.org/news/202112/why-iso-was-retired-part-2.html >I have whittled away at the use-cases in favour of using the iso file, Very well done, and I would rather not have to use ISO's myself since the only remaining thing they are perfect for is distribution, where it doesn't look like they will be beat for a very long time. I would rather not touch ISOs any other time, but I'm going to have to maintain the skill anyway. There's definitely nothing better for Windows than ISOs and Windows is huge with very sophisticated imaging built-in. Kauler just happens to make an even more sophisticated IMG than most would do, for this distribution I can handle it with no drawbacks compared to a standard ISO file, and way better than a funky "hybrid" ISO.

Barry Kauler’s website uses a CMS that’s a static generator using SeaMonkey as the wysiwyg component: https://bkhome.org/shellcms/

I don't know, I just use FDE because I don't trust filesystem level encryption to protect against the many side channel attacks one can inject into a running system. LUKS is good enough for me. It looks like there's slow but steady progress on FSCRYPT support on BTRFS: https://bkhome.org/news/202403/linux-kernel-btrfs-supports-fscrypt.htm… No idea what kind of state it is in currently.

https://bkhome.org/news/202112/why-iso-was-retired.html I mean, the author had gone into depth about this.

While this article claims that it works with Ventoy, recent posts (by the same author himself) suggests that things aren't so clear and sunny: https://bkhome.org/news/202303/easyos-455-does-not-work-with-ventoy-ei… A good final half of the article is spent on blaming Ventoy's developers and users for holding it "wrong". And here I am left still wondering what is so bad about ISOs.

You probably mean Sphinx C--: https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/cmm/

It sounds like what you really want is a high-level portable assembler. Which, to be fair, is one of the niches that C has occupied... but I'm not convinced it's optimally designed for that in general, even leaving UB aside. But back in DOS days, there was something called Sphinx C--: https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/cmm/c--doc.htm. A modern cross-arch reincarnation of that could be interesting.

> use some shell magic eg. 1600 SLOC: https://www.bkhome.org/shellcms/index.html 1194: https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog 82: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/lb 15: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24552950