LinuxBSDos
linuxbsdos.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Writes Linux and BSD distribution reviews, how-to guides, and news, covering Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Devuan, and Antergos.
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Most-shared posts
- 1What will ‘rm -rf /’ actually do to your Linux/BSD machine?3 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 2Presearch is building a blockchain-based search engine2 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 3After a 3-day delay, Linux Mint 17.3 is released. View screenshots2 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 4Apply the nuke patch to LUKS cryptsetup in Linux Mint 16 and Ubuntu 13.102 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 54 open source alternatives to Trello that you can self-host1 people · 37 points · first shared 2017 · 11 comments on HN
- 6Devuan 1.0 Jessie beta 2: That’s Debian Jessie minus systemd1 people · 10 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 7Antergos: The first Linux distribution with ZFS support during installation1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 8Linux Mint suffers disk failure. Has been down for 3 days1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Fedora 26 will have an LXQt Spin. Here’s what it looks like now1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 10Hone your hacking skills using 70+ recipes from a free Kali Linux Cookbook1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 11Like Windows, Ubuntu 17.04 now uses a swap file1 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 12Vagrant 1.8 released. Includes support for linked clones and snapshots1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 13The Samsung Android tablet that will never access the Internet1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Two things I’ve learned from using Tor Browser1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15How to install OpenSSH on Windows 101 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
curt15 · 2017-10-19
Gnome shell beta pre-Unity: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JSR8IC77Ub4/TGI7upt62cI/AAAAAAAAA38/Ls5TEoVD…
Gnome shell after the Unity release: http://linuxbsdos.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/fedora-gnome-desktop-…
finid · 2017-01-26
Not true, because even on Ubuntu 15.10, your keystrokes were being monetized.
http://linuxbsdos.com/2015/10/28/first-things-to-do-after-installing-u…
secstate · 2013-11-01
Tribbles! Downvoted. But here's my point:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/04/29/what-will-rm-rf-actually-do-to-yo…
mtgx · 2013-08-22
The story seems to be from leaked internal documents. Haven't we learned better over the past 2 months than trusting the "official statements" afterwards, that inevitably deny it whether it's true or not?
At the very least, I think this deserves more exploring. It's not the first time I saw the Germans weren't happy with Windows 8 and its "secure boot". This is from last November:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/21/german-govt-comes-out-against-tru…
And it seems the source for that is your source. So are they contradicting themselves now?
http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/OED_Verwaltung/I…
Surio · 2013-03-16
Sigh!
For those interested in the nuts and bolts of the issue with UEFI/dual-boot, etc....
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/05/dual-boot-windows-8-and-ubuntu-12…
derleth · 2012-10-12
> Linus was a 386BSD user, or hoped to be. A lawsuit stopped people like him from getting their hands on the BSD code to play with, so he wrote a UNIX clone himself using MINIX as a model.
Torvalds himself said that he couldn't use 386BSD because it required the 80387, which he didn't have.
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/freebsd-and-the-gpl/
Apparently this is wrong because I misquoted. Damn.
kristopolous · 2012-10-26
Napkin math says it would cost ~$5000 to put the data online and ~$138/month to power it:
Here's the "Everything will always work" math:
~ 27 3TB SATA drives @ $129.95 [0]
~ 7 machines @ $60.17 [1] [2]
~ 8-port switch @ $11.99 [3]
~ 100ft cat5 cable @ $15.95 [4]
~ 14 cat5 connectors @ ~$5 total.
~ 2 6-prong power strips @ $5 [5].
Total: 27 * $129.95 + 7 * $60.17 + $11.99 + $15.95 + $5 + 2 * $5 = $3972.78.
With decent redundancy: ~$5000 [6].
Monthly power bill: ~$138 [7].
Labor: $0 [8].
You can store basically a copy of "The entire internet" for 1/4th the cost of a new sedan [9] and power it at 1/5th the cost of using that sedan [10].
I officially christen this the future.
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References:
[0] http://www.goharddrive.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=G01-0530&…
[1] The cheapest all-in-one with SATA I found was the $49 cubieboard (http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/09/11/cubieboard-raspberry-pi-competito… 4 of them would run you $200 ... putting it at higher expense.
[2] Breakdown:
$24.99 Motherboard: http://www.ascendtech.us/asus-p5rc-le-lga775-ddr-motherboard_i_mbasus5…
$3.50 256MB RAM: http://txmicro.com/256MB-DDR-RAM-PC3200-184-Pin-DIMM-Name-Brand-p-1035…
$4.00 celeron: http://starmicroinc.net/intel-celeron-325j-253ghz-256k-533mhz-sl7tls-p…
$8.95 CPU fan: http://3btech.net/inorlga775co.html
$21.99 550 W PSU: http://3btech.net/24pinch550wa.html
$0.74 Molex -> SATA:…