Re: [PLUG] 1TB Samsung SSD (Magician), filesystems

2023-09-23 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . SSDs do control sector mapping to their physical flash blocks. So, it does not matter if OS tries to write to the same sectors over and over. The drive will always do wear leveling. If you want to make sure that your partitions maintain their real sizes due to bad flash block/cell tagging

Re: [PLUG] SparkyLinux

2023-09-23 Thread MC_Sequoia
Sharing this on the main PLUG group as it's on topic and might be of interest to some folks who don't subscribe to the off-topic talk list. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 at 12:21 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 2

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 02:13:25 + MC_Sequoia dijo: >If you want a default lightweight Debian distro, I'd recommend either >BunsenLabs or Crunchbang++. > >Crunchbang is Debian 12, Bullseye w. Linux Kernal 6.1 Long Term >Support. > >Both offer an installation script so the user can decide which >p

Re: [PLUG] SparkyLinux

2023-09-23 Thread MC_Sequoia
There's also a couple of other noteworthy/interesting things about SparkyLinux. Firstly, there's a MinimalCLI version w/o a desktop/GUI enviro, which I think you expressed interest in your original post, 'Mint, Ubuntu, Debian...' There's 3 special editions: – GameOver for computer gaming – Mul

[PLUG] Internship for people with Linux command line familiarity

2023-09-23 Thread Russell Senior
I'm involved with a grant funded project in which Personal Telco Project is to indoctrinate a few people in Community Networking serving a target population. We want people who are members of the target population, but in order to meet the project goals we feel like they need to start with a basic

Re: [PLUG] Internship for people with Linux command line familiarity

2023-09-23 Thread Russell Senior
Priority populations: "Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), seniors, LGBTQIA+, immigrants and refugees, houseless or housing insecure, foster youth, domestic violence survivors, people impacted by incarceration, people with disabilities, and those living in poverty" On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at

Re: [PLUG] Internship for people with Linux command line familiarity

2023-09-23 Thread MC_Sequoia
Hi, I may or may not be a person they're looking for but I'm very interested. I'm not a senior, but I'm pushing 60. I'm still considered a houseless veteran even though I've a HUD-VASH housing voucher. I've a background in computer networks, wireless, telecom and Linux, but my skills & knowle

[PLUG] - Moderator can you please delete my last email?

2023-09-23 Thread MC_Sequoia
Hi - I meant for my reply to only go to Russell Senior. Can you please delete my message from the PLUG email list so that my personal info isn't on the internet? Thank you -- PLEASE DELETE --- --- Original Message --- On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 at 4:43 PM, MC_Sequoia

Re: [PLUG] Internship for people with Linux command line familiarity

2023-09-23 Thread Ben Koenig
Does anyone here know if Free Geek still teaches a commandline class? I don't see any references to it (or other classes) on their website but this would have been a great example of the skills taught in that class. If you need a creative workaround, you can look for technicians with MacOS man

Re: [PLUG] Internship for people with Linux command line familiarity

2023-09-23 Thread Kevin Williams
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, at 16:52, Ben Koenig wrote: > Does anyone here know if Free Geek still teaches a commandline class? I don't > see any references to it (or other classes) on their website but this would > have been a great example of the skills taught in that class. > > If you need a cr