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diff --git a/computer-operating-systems-i-use.html b/computer-operating-systems-i-use.html deleted file mode 100644 index cc110bea..00000000 --- a/computer-operating-systems-i-use.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,129 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> -<head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> -<title>Computer operating systems I use</title> -<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/gif" href="/favicon.ico" /> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" /> -</head> -<body> -<h1>Computer operating systems I use</h1> -<pre> - /( )` - \ \___ / | - /- _ `-/ ' - (/\/ \ \ /\ - / / | ` \ - O O ) / | - `-^--'`< ' - (_.) _ ) / - `.___/` / - `-----' / - <----. __ / __ \ - <----|====O)))==) \) /==== - <----' `--' `.__,' \ - | | - \ / - ______( (_ / \______ - (FL) ,' ,-----' | \ - `--{__________) \/ "Berkeley Unix Daemon" -</pre> -<p class="quote"><i>Published by Paul at ????-??-??</i></p> -<p>This is a list of Operating Systems I currently use. The list is in no particular order. This site will receive updates over time. Once in a while I try to out new things and switch forth- and back from one to anther. I prefer free and open source software over proprietary software. I didn't manage to libreboot my devices yet, though. That's mostly due to the lack of time I have coupled with that most of my devices don't work with libreboot yet.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://libreboot.org/">https://libreboot.org/</a><br /> -<h2>Fedora Linux</h2> -<p>Fedora Linux is the operating system I use on my primary (personal) laptop. It's a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen. 9. Lenovo officially supports Fedora Linux on this Laptop. I already saw hardware firmware updates being installed directly through Fedora from Lenovo. Fedora is a real powerhouse, cutting-edge and reasonably stable at the same time. It's baked by Red Hat after all. </p> -<p>I also use Fedora on my Microsoft Surface Go 2 convertible tablet. Fedora works quite OK (and much better than Windows) on this device. It's also the perfect travel companion.</p> -<p>I use the GNOME Desktop on my Fedora boxes. I have memorized and customized a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. But the fact that I mostly work in the terminal (with tmux) makes the Desktop environment I use only secondary.</p> -<h2>EndeavourOS</h2> -<p>I installed EndeavourOS on my old ThinkPad X240 to try out an Arch based Linux distribution. I could have installed plain Arch directly, but I don't see the point when there is EndeavourOS. EndeavourOS is as close as you can get to the plain Arch experience but with an easy to use installer. I am not saying that it's difficult to install plain Arch but it's (unless you are new to Linux and want to learn about the installation procedure) just waste of time imho.</p> -<p>I use the Xfce desktop environment here and it feels very snappy and fast on the X240 (which I purchased back in 2014). I usually have my X240 right next to my work laptop and use it for playing music (mainly online radio streams), for personal note taking and occasional emailing and instant messaging.</p> -<p>As this is a rolling distribution there are a lot of software updates coming through. Sometimes it can only take a minute until new package updates are available. Honestly, I find that a bit annoying to constantly catch up with all the updates. As for now I will live with it and/or automate it a bit more. It'll OK if it breaks, as this is not my primary laptop anyway. Or, one day, I will switch to a non-rolling distribution on my X240.</p> -<p>In contrast to Fedora, Arch Linux and EndeavourOS are purely backed by the community. So there is no big corporation in the backyard lurking around. They won't give you the firmware updates out of the box, though. But they are still a very good choice, especially for hobbyist and also for older hardware where future firmware updates are less likely to happen.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://endeavouros.com/">https://endeavouros.com/</a><br /> -<h2>FreeBSD</h2> -<p>I have run FreeBSD in many occasions. One of my former employers even allowed me to install FreeBSD on my main workstation (which I actually did and used it for a couple of years).</p> -<p>FreeBSD always had a place somewhere in my life:</p> -<ul> -<li>On a Desktop PC (personal and work)</li> -<li>On a Laptop</li> -<li>On a webserver, FTP server, DNS server, mail server</li> -<li>On a server offering FreeBSD jails for rent</li> -<li>As an experiment running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD inside of jails</li> -</ul> -<p>Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is now dead (same is my experiment)...</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/">https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/</a><br /> -<p>...but I still have saved and old uname output :-):</p> -<pre> -[root@saturn /usr/jail/serv14/etc] # jexec 21 bash -root@rhea:/ # uname -a -GNU/kFreeBSD rhea.buetow.org 8.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p5 #2: Sat Nov 27 13:10:09 CET \ - 2010 root@saturn.buetow.org:/usr/obj/usr/srcs/freebsd.src8/src/sys/SERV10 x86 64 amd64 Intel(R) \ - Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz GNU/kFreeBSD -</pre> -<p>Currently, I use FreeBSD on my personal NAS server. The server is a regular PC with a bunch of hard drives and a ZFS RAIDZ (with 4x2TB drives) + a couple of external backup drives.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://www.FreeBSD.org">https://www.FreeBSD.org</a><br /> -<h2>CentOS 7</h2> -<p>While CentOS 8 is already out of support, I still use CentOS 7 (which still will receives security updates until 2024). CentOS 7 runs in a cloud VM and is the home to my personal NextCloud and Wallabag installations. You probably know already NextCloud. About Wallabag: It is a great free and open source alternative to Pocket. Yes, you can pay for a Wallabag subscription, but you can also host it for free on your own server.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://nextcloud.com">NextCloud</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="https://www.wallabag.it/en">Wallabag</a><br /> -<p>The reason I use Linux for these services is Docker. With Docker, it's straightforward to get these up and running. I will have to switch to another OS before CentOS 7 runs out of support. It might be CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, or, more likely, I will use FreeBSD. On FreeBSD there isn't Docker, but what can be done is to create a self-contained Jail for each of the web-apps. </p> -<p>I have been operating FreeBSD Jails for fairly complex LAMP stacks before I started to use CentOS. The reason why I switched to CentOS (it was still CentOS 6 at that time) some years back was that I wanted to try out something new. It doesn't hurt to switch OSes once in a while. FreeBSD is so convenient: When something goes wrong with an update, just roll back to a previous ZFS snapshot. That's especially convenient for PHP based web-apps (which sometimes come along with a hell of dependencies). :-)</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://www.centos.org">https://www.centos.org</a><br /> -<h2>OpenBSD</h2> -<p>I use two OpenBSD boxes for my "public facing internet front-ends". The services I run there are:</p> -<ul> -<li>HTTP server (serving this site via https://foo.zone)</li> -<li>Gemini server (serving this site via gemini://foo.zone)</li> -<li>MTA server (for receiving E-Mails to my hosts)</li> -<li>Authorative DNS server (for all of my hosts)</li> -<li>Some personal/private git repositories (accessible only via SSH)</li> -</ul> -<p>OpenBSD is a complete operating system. I love it due to it's "simplicity" and "correctness" and the good documentation (especially I love the manual pages). OpenBSD is also known for its innovations in security. I must admin, thought, that most Unix like operating system would be secure enough for my personal needs and that I don't really need to use OpenBSD in particular here. But nevertheless, I think it's the ideal operating system for what I am using it.</p> -<p>The only software which are not part of the base system and I had to install additionally were the Gemini server (vger) and Git (both were available as pre-compiled OpenBSD binary packages). So, besides of these two packages, it is indeed a pretty complete operating system for my use case (mainly httpd, OpenSMTPD, nsd, relayd, inetd, cron, all from the OpenBSD base installation).</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://www.openbsd.org">https://www.openbsd.org</a><br /> -<h2>macOS (proprietary)</h2> -<p>I have to use a MacBook Pro with macOS for work. What else can I say but that this would have never been my personal choice. At least macOS is a UNIX under the hood and comes with a decent terminal and there are plenty of terminal apps available via Brew. Some of the inner workings of macOS were actually forked from the FreeBSD project.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/BSD/BSD.html">developer.apple.com: BSD in macOS/Darwin</a><br /> -<h2>LineageOS (mobile)</h2> -<p>At some point I got fed up with big tech, like Google and Samsung (or Apple, but personally I don't use Apple), spying on me. So I purchased a Google phone (a midrange Pixel phone) and installed LineageOS, a free and open source distribution of Android, on it. I don't have anything from Google installed on it (not even the play store, I install my apps from F-Droid). It's my daily driver since mid 2021 now. </p> -<p>So far the experience is not great but good. The main culprits are not having Google Maps, Google Gboard and the camera app. The latter lacks some features on LineageOS (e.g. No wide angle lens support). Also, I can't use my banking apps anymore. Somtimes apps crash for no apparent reason(s). </p> -<p>But the whole point of switching to LineageOS was to get away of big tech and therefore I should not complain :-). What I do like is that 95% the things I used to do on a mobile phone also can be done with LineageOS.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://lineageos.org/">https://lineageos.org/</a><br /> -<h2>Samsung's Stock Android (mobile proprietary)</h2> -<p>Unfortunatley, I still have to keep my proprietary Android phone around. Sometimes, I really need to use some proprietary apps which are only available form the Google play store and also require the Google services installed on the phone. I don't carry this phone around all the time and I only use it intentionally for very specific use cases. I think this is the best compromise I can make.</p> -<h2>iOS (mobile proprietary)</h2> -<p>I have to use an iPhone for work. I like the hardware but I hate the OS (you can also call it spyOS), but it's the necessary's evil, unfortunately. Apple is even worse than Google here. I don't have it with me all the time or switched off when I don't need it. I also find iOS quite unintuitive to use.</p> -<p>When I am on-call at work it means that I have to be reachable 24/7 and so I have to have this phone with me (switched on). 1984 is now.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four</a><br /> -<h2>Other OSes</h2> -<h3>InfinyTime (smartwatch)</h3> -<p>I use it on my PineTime smartwatch. Not much to write about it yet, as I just got started with it recently and am only using it because of its fancy watch face and also I use it as a pedometer. AstroidOS seems also interesting for more advanced smartwatches nowadays, but I haven't looked into it yet. I will list it here anyway in case you want to check it out.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/">https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="https://infinitime.io/">https://infinitime.io/</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="https://asteroidos.org/">https://asteroidos.org/</a><br /> -<h3>motionEyeOS</h3> -<p>I always install an army of RaspberryPi 3's in my house before I travel for a prolonged amount of time. All Pi's are equipped with an camera and have motionEyeOS (Linux based video surveillance system) installed. There's a neat Android app in the F-Droid store which let's me keep an eye on everything. I make the Pi's accessible from the internet via reverse SSH tunnels though one of my frontend servers.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos">https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos</a><br /> -<h3>Kobo OS (proprietary)</h3> -<p>I use a Kobo Forma as my e-reader device. I have disabled the Wifi and I only sideload ePubs on it. Otherwise, it would call home to Rakuten. I would like to replace it one day with an open source e-reader device like the PineNote. There are also some interesting attempts installing postmarketOS Linux on Kobo devices. It boots already, but is far from being usable as a normal e-reader.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/">The PineNote</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="https://liliputing.com/2021/07/kobo-clara-hd-becomes-an-e-ink-linux-tablet-with-the-help-of-postmarketos.html">Kobo Clara HD becomes an e-link Linux tablet</a><br /> -<h3>NetBSD</h3> -<p>I have been using NetBSD on an old Sun Sparcstation 10 as a student. I also have run NetBSD on a very old ThinkPad with 96MB!!! of RAM (even with X/ratpoison WM). I also installed (but never really used) NetBSD on an HP Jornada 680. But that's all more than 10 years ago. I haven't looked at NetBSD for long time. I want to revive it on an "old" ThinkPad T450 of mine which I currently don't use.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://netbsd.org">https://netbsd.org</a><br /> -<h3>Android TV (proprietary)</h3> -<p>A Android TV box is used for watching Netflix. Currently in the process of being replaced by OSMC.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://osmc.tv/">https://osmc.tv/</a><br /> -<h3>SailfishOS (mobile proprietary)</h3> -<p>Before switching to LineageOS, I gave SailfishOS a shot. To some degree it works. It can even run Android apps. But I don't like that SailfishOS also includes closed source components.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://sailfishos.org/">https://sailfishos.org/</a><br /> -<p>E-Mail me your comments to paul at buetow dot org!</p> -<a class="textlink" href="../">Go back to the main site</a><br /> -<p class="footer"> -Generated with <a href="https://codeberg.org/foozone/gemtexter">Gemtexter</a> | -served by <a href="https://www.OpenBSD.org">OpenBSD</a>/<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> | -<a href="https://www.foo.zone/site-mirrors.html">Site Mirrors</a> -</p> -</body> -</html> diff --git a/gemfeed/index.html b/gemfeed/index.html index 889c85f8..f1d5ebdb 100644 --- a/gemfeed/index.html +++ b/gemfeed/index.html @@ -9,10 +9,7 @@ <body> <h1>Gemfeed of foo.zone</h1> <h2>To be in the .zone!</h2> -<<<<<<< HEAD <a class="textlink" href="./2022-02-04-computer-operating-systems-i-use.html">2022-02-04 - Computer operating systems I use(d)</a><br /> -======= ->>>>>>> faa99f5a78e223c0e12f04f82fefbe6d66eb60ba <a class="textlink" href="./2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.html">2022-01-23 - Welcome to the foo.zone</a><br /> <a class="textlink" href="./2022-01-01-bash-golf-part-2.html">2022-01-01 - Bash Golf Part 2</a><br /> <a class="textlink" href="./2021-12-26-how-to-stay-sane-as-a-devops-person.html">2021-12-26 - How to stay sane as a DevOps person </a><br /> diff --git a/gemfeed/style.css b/gemfeed/style.css index 4511037d..328ad6eb 100644 --- a/gemfeed/style.css +++ b/gemfeed/style.css @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ a { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; background-color: #000000; - padding: 5px; - margin: 5px; + padding: 2px; + margin: 2px; } a:hover { @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ a { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; background-color: #000000; - padding: 5px; - margin: 5px; + padding: 2px; + margin: 2px; } a:hover { |