From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:58:30 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: <201709201542.v8KFgN9T012655@darkstar.fourwinds.com> References: <201709201542.v8KFgN9T012655@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: <20170920165830.e6lp4acvfpq63n25@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> On 2017-09-20 08:42, Jon Steinhart wrote: > The fourth machine lives up at my ski cabin and has 20TiB of disk; I have a > remote control system make from a Raspberry PI that I can use to control the > power on that machine so that I can rsync to it. It's my main offsite backup > machine. This is intriguing; how do you remote-control to the ski cabin? Satellite or something? > Won't buy another Dell product. I have two Dell things, both essential: 1. an ultra light Inspiron XPS which came with Ubuntu preinstalled (or so I believe, it's second hand) but now runs my debloated Gentoo variant; and 2. one of their 24 inch displays, which sadly remain the only affordable wide gamut options, to my knowledge. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.