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Ubuntu+Debian Installation for Dual-Boot from Two Hard Drives

Posted 07-22-2017 at 12:53 PM by flshope
Updated 01-15-2018 at 01:43 PM by flshope (Update on Thunderbird/gmail problem)

Tags debian 9, dual boot, ubuntu 16.04

Machine Description

I have a six year old desktop machine from Pogo Linux (my hostname: "Pogo2011"). The machine has been running Ubuntu since it was new and is now at 16.04.2 LTS. The machine has an AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 450 Processor, 64 bit, 8 GB RAM, and two 500 GB SATA hard disks. One drive contains the OS and the other, my own data files. This is my primary desktop, though I have a 14 year old desktop ("Pogo2003" running Debian 8.8) and a 9 year old HP laptop...

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Slackware-14.2-Pdns-Recursor-4.0.6-Dnssec-Dnscrypt

Posted 07-21-2017 at 08:45 PM by arniekat

GENERAL INFORMATION

Source - ArchLinux Wiki and linoxide.com and PowerDNS Website

The PowerDNS recursor is part of the source tarball of the main PowerDNS distribution, but it is released separately. It is known to power the resolving needs of over 150 million internet connections.

This particular setup will use powerdns-recursor caching with Adblocking and DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) and DnsCrypt-Proxy to encrypt all DNS queries.

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RAMBOOT with continuous rsync synchronization

Posted 07-20-2017 at 11:55 AM by IsaacKuo

Tags ramboot ssd tmpfs

RAMBOOT is an initrd hack that loads the entire OS partition in RAM, making it run like an extremely fast SSD, at the expense of perhaps 1.5+GB of RAM.

Previously I described RAMBOOT using a compressed OS tarball. This is good for boot time, but it takes time to create a new tarball. This new How-To takes a different approach - simply copying an entire directory tree using piped tar commands (cp won't work because of the limited initrd environment). This increases boot time, but allows...

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Computational Entropy

Posted 07-20-2017 at 01:28 AM by Gyroman (Computational Entropy)
Updated 05-23-2021 at 08:38 PM by Gyroman (Capitalisation of title)

Hi.. I'm an old Dos/Windows 3.1/Fortran/Basic..
Fairly competent engineer.. who needs Linux and simplicity.!

Some may say those two words are not really compatible, but actually in use I have found Linux to work well. Not much better than my Widows XP but without the INTERNET MALWARE.. Python was nice but had a nasty surprise but I'll leave that for another time.. there is a deeper issue here.

You may be wondering what has 'entropy' to do with Linux and more...

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More upgrades

Posted 07-19-2017 at 05:34 PM by zaivala

Tags ferenos, geckolinux, linuxmint, solusos, ubuntu mate

Well, let's see, there was a life upgrade. I got married in November. I gave the X130e to my wife, and last month upgraded her to a T430 like mine.

My machine is now running ferenOS as the main distro. Great configuration is the main thing, being built on top of LinuxMint 18.2 helps. Secondary distro is SolusOS -- while Solus is still struggling with things like my printer and using a 3rd-party office package, I have my best Kodi configuration there. And just for fun I trotted out...

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