I use this for kubernetes secrets with sops. It works great.

There is uksmd for ram dedupe.

In my opinion, you are starting too big. It’s better to start smaller. Many locations have a “Linux User Group” or “hackerspace” or a “Computing Club”. (Those are exact keywords you can try searching for).

And often times, those organizations host their own small set of services for their members. For example, when I was searching for help on how to set up something with Kubernetes, I came across this blog, where the blog author hosts services for their “Chaos Computing Club”, like proxmox, nextcloud (has a calendar app), matrix, and forgejo.

Instead of trying to spin up a set of services for the whole “FOSS Community” start smaller and just host for your local groups. Maybe your local hackerspace already hosts these services.

To find local meetups, I checked out https://meetup.com/, which has a lot.

As for me personally, I am trying to put together services for my Cybersecurity club at my school, right now I have centralized identity, and virtual machine hosting for members to access and play with, but I want to also host extra services like the stuff you mentioned, because the reasons why you want them are good.

On my blog, I discuss my plans and steps: https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/projects/build-server-6/

I think creating a “FOSS hub” overall is a really really big challenge because all of these groups that make up the FOSS world have a heterogeneous set of overall interests, and an even more heterogeneous set of users.

A simple example is the language barrier. Fun fact: There exist alternatives to apps that primarily have English as their first language, but in other languages first, centering around the communities those languages are used in. For example, the opendesk docs are in German first. Of course, there are English docs for things like engagement, but the problem is that —

For something like a FOSS hub, user engagement is critical, and one of the best ways to have engaged users is dogfooding, where users contribute back to this software they use. But with software that treats one language or another as a first class citizen, there is becomes a bump, when users want to dogfood.

The other problem is that the users themselves have different needs and wants. One user or set of users hates email and never wants to touch it. Another wants to exclusively use plain email for everything, including as an alternative to code forges, discussion platforms, and scheduling systems. One set of users prefers discord, the others prefer irc. They meet in the middle on matrix, but this other set of users hates matrix due to being VC funded and it’s just a clusterfuck.

You cannot make both groups of users happy. When you try to please everybody, you end up pleasing nobody.

What you can do, however, is catch the needs of your local groups and slowly expand from there. I think a FOSS Hub is possible, but I think trying to start it as a foss hub is bound for failure because the scope is too large.

I think the closest thing right now is disroot, which hosts a lot of services, but again Disroot uses XMPP whereas some people may prefer Matrix for this usecase, and plenty of other nitpicks.

I find this comparison unfair becuase k3s is a much more batteries included distro than the others, coming with an ingress controller (traefik) and a few other services not in talos or k0s.

But I do think Talos will end up the lighest overall because Talos is not just a k8s distro, but also a extremely stripped down linux distro. They don’t use systemd to start k8s, they have their own tiny init system.

It should be noted that Sidero Labs is the creator of Talos Linux, which another commenter pointed out.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_is_the_best

Try https://lnav.org/

No, because it has a “termination clause”, where if Watcom is suing you you can’t use the software anymore while you are

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase_Open_Watcom_Public_License

See the first bit, and the linked discussion by Debian developers.

I think a browser extension, similar to tor snowflake would be a good way to do this.

You should look into “Configuration as code”, where you use automation via various methods and store the code in a git repo. The other commenter in the thread is a good example of this methodology, using Terraform and Ansible, but there are many ways to do this.

Depends on the program and the professors. I’m doing computer scuence at CSUN, and I’ve gotten lucky, none of the online exams have required any proctoring software (rootkit monitoring software). They just do them in the browser.

I’m pretty sure it’s possible to use timeshift to create backups on another drive using rsync (instead of btrfs). They are incremental, and deduplicated, as well.

But the other commenters are correct, timeshift is not a backup tool, it’s more for snapshots to undo system changes you may not want. In addition to that, it doesn’t do user files by default — because again, it’s not a backup tool.

btrfs send/receive technically does what you want, using btrfs to do backups to another drive, but I don’t think any GUI app supports it. Plus, you would have to create snapshots for btrfs from the command line.

Your best bet are apps explicitly designed for this usecase, like someone mentioned pika, or borg or restic are good choices. They don’t do BTRFS, but they do incremental, deduplicated updates in a user friendly way.

You’re right, my bad. Dynamic linking and dynamic compilation are different thinks.

The library inter operation is a part of the translation layers that, like fex-emu which is becoming more and more supported by Fedora.

https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX/blob/main/ThunkLibs/README.md

manually vetted libraries where you can clean up the ABI

Yes, but usually games are ran with wine which does have a standard set of libraries it uses.

Yes, you can run games. See my other comments in the thread, it’s now possible to use Arm translation to play PC games on android devices.

maybe it’s not as big of a thing as I imagine it being.

Yes, see my other comments in this thread for an explanation of this. The trick is that not all the calls are translated, as wine is able to use the arm version of the libraries rather than the x86 version.

Should be awful for gaming. It’s possible to run x86 things with emulation, sure, but performance (especially single-thread)

Most modern software (games excluded), is dynamically compiled. This means that it’s not all one “bundle” that runs, but rather a binary that calls reusable pieces of code, “libraries” from the binary itself. Wine is dynamically compiled.

What makes modern x86 to arm translators special, is that the x86 binary, like an x86 version of wine, can call upon the arm versions of the libraries it uses ­— like graphic drivers. It’s because of this that the people on r/emulationonandroid managed to play GTA 5 with 30 fps via the computer version. There definitely is overhead, but it’s not that much, and a beefy machine like this could absolutely handle it.

https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/blog/scale-22/#exhibition-hall

The Facebook/Meta table had a booth where they had an ARM macbook that was running steam and they were installing games on it.

ut I honestly doubt ARM can with the overhead of emulation

Most modern software (games excluded), is dynamically compiled. This means that it’s not all one “bundle” that runs, but rather a binary that calls reusable pieces of code, “libraries” from the binary itself. Wine is dynamically compiled.

What makes modern x86 to arm translators special, is that the x86 binary, like an x86 version of wine, can call upon the arm versions of the libraries it uses ­— like graphic drivers. It’s because of this that the people on r/emulationonandroid managed to play GTA 5 with 30 fps via the computer version. There definitely is overhead, but it’s not that much, and a beefy machine like this could absolutely handle it.

https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/blog/scale-22/#exhibition-hall

The Facebook/Meta table had a booth where they had an ARM macbook that was running steam and they were installing games on it.

Yes:

https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/blog/scale-22/#exhibition-hall

The Facebook/Meta table had a booth where they had an ARM macbook that was running steam and they were installing games on it.

I never got uefi images booting properly on those grub multi boot utility drives. Granted the last time I bothered with it was like 10 years ago now

I haven’t had any issues with Ventoy, everything I’ve attempted to boot works. Doesn’t matter how it does it if it works.

They are not explicitly designed to boot ISO’s?

Also, price. I’m not gonna pay quadruple the price for something that can be done entirely in software.

The current problem with ventoy is that proprietary blobs are essentially an unauditable possible security backdoor.

This product is entirely proprietary, including the hardware, and even worse.