544: Half the Bits, Double the Pain

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This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers. We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.Core Contributor Membership: Get double the content, and support the production directly. When you use promo code 2024 you'll take $3 off a month, forever. This a limited offer, with only 50 redemptions possible. Promo Code: 2024Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape - Phoronix32-Bit Challenge DetailsHP Mini 110-4100CA NetbookIntel Atom Processor N2600 SpecificationsCrunchbangplusplus — Debian Based Minimal Linux DistroCBPP/cbpp: #!++ - GitHubFreeBSD Handbook | Chapter 5. The X Window SystemGuide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions – FreeBSD FoundationMidnightBSD — MidnightBSD is a BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.MidnightBSD - Linux® Binary CompatibilityGhostBSD | A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating SystemIntel T2300Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15thSouthern California Linux Expo 19LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2024!LMDE — LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. It allows us to assess how much we depend on Ubuntu and how much work would be involved in such an event. LMDE is also one of our development targets, as such it guarantees the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.nohang: A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux — nohang is earlyoom on steroids and has many useful featureszram — Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings.PSI — This helps users understand the resource pressure their workloads are under, which allows them to rootcause and fix throughput and latency problems caused by overcommitting, underprovisioning, suboptimal job placement in a grid, as well as anticipate major disruptions like OOM.pressure stall informationnohang-desktop.confnheko: Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20. — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app (Element, Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month foreverIs a 32 bit machine still usable in 2024? — Luckily, someone had JUST donated this perfectly working Dell Latitude D820, running Windows XP. They were in college actually trying to use this for their school work, but couldn’t even access many of the websites they needed because it was so out of date. I gave her a much newer 64 bit machine in trade.How I Automated All the Things - Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Fritzing - Everlanders Automate the World!PICK: Linux Terminal Tools - Terminal Trove — Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.SliTaz GNU/Linux (en) — SliTaz is a secure and high performance operating system using the Linux Kernel and GNU software.tulir/gomuks — A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.The Mutt E-Mail ClientLinks home page — Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows.