Iirc the original steamOS was Debian based and you really had to be an experienced Linux user to use and enjoy it.
With the new steamOS (arch based?) it's a much more streamlined experience and opens up the user base because of it
bodaciousFern
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On my machine, the L2 cache is 256KiB
Is this a typo or are they running on a Pentium 3?
In the future, you should look into using LVMs for your partitions.
I ran into a similar problem recently where my /var needed to be increased - I was able to run a simple lvextend -L+4G /dev/myvg/var --resizefs to grow my /var by 4 gigabytes.
Before I was using LVMs though I used a gparted live disk a lot
I've been a decades long Gentoo user, but now I'm experimenting with NixOS as I've gotten older and value my time more. The 12+ hours of compiling when there's a chromium / QT update is no longer a badge of honor. I haven't fully converted though, Gentoo binary packages are working as an acceptable stopgap
I don't think he knows about second gun, Pip
I'm using Gentoo with systemd and a customized kernel, and additionally I have the /usr partition LUKS encrypted.
Because /usr is absolutely essential for systemd to function, I configured dracut to make a specially crafted initrd which activates the luks lvm and prompts for the password to decrypt and mount /usr on startup before systemd init tries to run.
About a year or two ago, some update to dracut or some other dependency (assumption) caused the dracut generated initrd's to kernel panic. After multiple days of troubleshooting, I discovered that just copying forward an older initrd in /boot and naming it to match the new kernel, e.g. initramfs-6.6.38-gentoo.img , allows the system to boot normally .
So, my Gentoo is booting a kernel 6.6.something with a ramdisk generated in the 5.9 kernel era. I am dreading the day when this behavior breaks and I can no longer update my kernel 😳
wAkE uP sHeEpLe
The President we need, but not the President we deserve
This is the way (as in this is what I do). Every once in a while you'll have to hard reset the laptop because Windows.
A thread on the site which shall not be named convinced me that a majority of the books are recently published and with above average to highly scored on reviews, so I bought it.
Why the Linux Firewalls book hails from 2007 is a strange outlier.
Not sure where you got the 25kb number from.
This tool is written in go and is a 7.8 MB compiled binary.
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A few decades ago I bought a used IBM as a *nix server, but it would lock up at nearly random intervals like you describe. Tried a different Linux distro... same issues. Tried BSD - same issues!
It wasn't until after I learned of the 1999-2007 capacitor plague that I inspected the motherboard and saw that yes, several of the capacitories were bulging.
https://www.robotroom.com/Faulty-Capacitors-1.html
I mailed the motherboard to a servicer who replaced all the capacitors for a nominal fee. After that it was a rock solid system. You mention that this is recent hardware, but I would still suggest taking a peek at those caps.