Episode 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. Support Core Contributor Links: 💥 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 - Phoronix 32-Bit Challenge Details HP Mini 110-4100CA Netbook Intel Atom Processor N2600 Specifications Crunchbangplusplus — Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro CBPP/cbpp: #!++ - GitHub FreeBSD Handbook | Chapter 5. The X Window System Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions – FreeBSD Foundation MidnightBSD — 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 Compatibility GhostBSD | A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System Intel T2300 Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th Southern California Linux Expo 19 LinuxFest 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 features zram — 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 information nohang-desktop.conf nheko: 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 forever Is 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 Client Links home page — Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows.

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