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1 • disk space & Pepermint. (by vern on 2020-10-26 01:32:12 GMT from United States)
I use Bleachbit to clear out old disk usage. I have never filled up my partition much more than 10%. I like to keep a len machine.
I'm also oncerned about peperment not updating to 20.04 LTS. What's up with that?
2 • @1 :Peppermint os (by Hoos on 2020-10-26 02:36:58 GMT from Singapore)
Unfortunately the lead developer has passed away.
3 • Disk Space (by Whiskey on 2020-10-26 03:07:57 GMT from United States)
My current linux boxes have less than 10% disk space left. One drive is a dual boot with windows (wifi off switch broken so linux is when I have ethernet only.) The other box is a 120gb ssd. I have lots of projects that get started then set off for others so it takes my space till I zip it or rm it.
4 • Disk space (by Titus_Groan on 2020-10-26 03:56:53 GMT from New Zealand)
on this machine 33% (of 512GB) is unpartitioned space.
I will add or delete partitions as required, and / or increase existing partition sizes as required.
19 actual in use partitions, some are system partitions (I multi boot), some are data partitions for shared data: music, video, pictures, isos...etc
5 • Free space (by Eijie on 2020-10-26 06:00:57 GMT from Belgium)
Bought a new laptop last week, Lenovo Legion 5 and the minimal SSD was 512Gb. As I do most of my work in the Cloud, of those 512 Gb a max of 20 Gb will ever be used. Why can't I find a simple 32 or 64 Gb SSD anymore.
6 • ssd bloat (by nanome on 2020-10-26 08:30:11 GMT from United Kingdom)
@5: I can still buy 256gb Samsung SSD drives, but not from Samsung itself, as they are busy promoting their monster drives. I had to do this when the rotating rust drives in older laptops started to die on me. However, I got the idea in my head that modern SSDs have wear-leveling logic which avoids the rewrite limitations. Even then, I partition drives in 20gb chunks [because I can]. I have no wish to find out how any OS behaves when resources run out!
7 • Peppermint (by Alan on 2020-10-26 09:16:56 GMT from Poland)
I absolutely love Peppermint! It has given my old rig of 12 years a new lease on life! It's truly amazing at how responsive my system is and little RAM it uses. Peppermint has a very clean layout and design througout which also appeals to me. Sadly, Mark Greaves, the project's lead developer passed away in January his year as the second poster mentioned. The project plans to release Peppermint 11 based on Ubuntu 20.04 but there hasn't been any news about the upcoming release for a few months. Hopefully we'll see the next release before Christmas this year.
8 • Disk space (by James on 2020-10-26 10:11:08 GMT from United States)
I have a 250 gig SSD, with Seq Read: 3,500 MB/s, Seq Write: 2,300 MB/s . I preferred the faster SSD rather than the bigger slower drive when I purchased my laptop. Even with a huge music collection, I have 74% of my drive free space. If I ever need more space, I have a 250 gig and 1 terabyte external drive, (currently using for backups) which are both almost empty.
9 • Full disk (by Friar Tux on 2020-10-26 13:38:58 GMT from Canada)
My laptop has 250 GB (SSD), of which, I'm at about 10% full (?). I do a lot of graphics work and I keep most of my music on the SSD. That takes up about 90% of the 10% of the 250 GBs. I do, however, have a 500 GB and a one terabyte external drive - just in case (ha-ha). (I also use those for regular back ups.)
Love the Peppermint review. My condolences to the Peppermint team and the Greaves family. I tried Peppermint OS, way back when, but found it had too many issues. Maybe it's time to give it another try.
10 • free space (by wally on 2020-10-26 14:05:26 GMT from United States)
24% free over 3 drives, 4 partitions, well allocated w/ a terabyte available.
Brings back memories. Many years ago when Linux was cmd line only, I accidentally set a system program to report(write to the drive) every five minutes or so. Sometime later I was locked up, no disk space.
Took a while to unravel, I had lots of free space, but no inodes left, all used by those pesky report files piling up.
11 • Small partitions (by RJA on 2020-10-26 16:02:45 GMT from United States)
@6, the 20 GB partitions, remind me of what I did to platter drives, because they would be slow otherwise. That's how you lower random seek times with platter drives.
12 • touching on three points, or four (by Mandy Tory on 2020-10-26 19:11:10 GMT from New Zealand)
* Peppermint. Have tried it in the past and its a nice distro. Notable that they are basing on 18.04 which is a while back - for stability?
* Disk space. In recent years '/' is normally 5-10% used, /home more like 50-70%. I have worked on production systems that would fill up every 2-3 months - and had high water mark scripts in place to alert the relevant admin "hey Joe, backup and clean up please.."
* Nvidia and 5.9 (Manjaro). "Oops?"
* Obscurix - doesn't the name tell you everything already?
disclosure: I run Mint and Manjaro on my machines.
13 • Hard drive size (by James on 2020-10-26 20:38:25 GMT from United States)
Windows 95 can only use and support hard drives that are up to 32 GB in size. It is a limitation in the design of the Windows 95 architecture.
How spoiled we have become over the last 23 years!
14 • obscurix (by nanome on 2020-10-26 21:04:52 GMT from United Kingdom)
@13: I started reading the description of Obscurix, and it seemed to have addressed many of the challenges for evolving base a distro into a hardened, privacy-oriented one. Then it dawned om me: it is based on Debian, which means 1.2 million lines of systemD. Security through bloatware? The ideas could be transposed onto a different distro without the systemD attack surface, and a modern, robust init system that is 1% of the size. Apart from, Obscurix hits many buttons.
15 • Hard drive size (by StephenC on 2020-10-26 22:15:35 GMT from United States)
My main Linux system has foure physical hard drives. About 85% free on the operating system drive (80 GB), 70% free on the /home drive (1 TB), 55% free on the data and virtual machines drive (1 TB), 40% free on the /tmp and temporary backups drive (850 GB, two partitions).
A couple of times I've filled up my data drive and once the tmp drive.
On the other hand my Windows 10 work laptop has about 20% free if I constantly prune it (200 GB drive of which 42 GB is data/documents). The MS Windows plus MS Office bloat is more than all my data. I've filled up the drive several times just trying to export OneNote (what a pig...).
16 • Disk space (by Ron on 2020-10-27 00:51:39 GMT from United States)
A trip down memory lane. Way back in old days (don't remember the year) on my lunch break I was cruising the area and walked into a computer shop where I spotted an IBM computer with a 20 megabyte hard drive! No kidding, and this is the funny part: I wondered why anyone would need that much space. I was playing with a Z80 computer with 7 inch floppy drives at work.
17 • Obscurix (by Stefan on 2020-10-27 01:32:54 GMT from Brazil)
@14 (nanome):
<< The ideas could be transposed onto a different distro without the systemD attack surface, and a modern, robust init system that is 1% of the size. >>
Obscurix is not better than the now dormant Subgraph OS. Both Arch and Debian SUCK, just as every distro with systemd(isaster). The ideal base for a Tails-like distro would be Devuan with Openbox, of course.
As for this week's opinion poll... my SSDs and HDDs are about 80 to 90% full, and I use Bleachbit a lot.
18 • Obscurix (by nanome on 2020-10-27 14:50:04 GMT from United Kingdom)
@17: I considered Devuan as a systemD escape route, but as far as I can see, it has not broken the links to [dependence on] Debian, and must play "catch up". All systemD-free projects that are based on systemD bases seem to have way less packages as a result [hard work].
I switched to Void Linux as it is a contains no systemD relics [that I can see]; uses Runit as init [6.6 kloC with a few hundred lines up-to-date scripts], etc. Slackware and Gentoo would be harder to adapt to the Obscurix model.
The "heads" distro which started out as a Tails replacement based on Devuan+Openbox apprears to be dormant.
19 • 5% free (by Z on 2020-10-27 20:37:02 GMT from Sweden)
As my 1990s computer science teacher said: "A disk is either new, or full. But the transition time between these two states may vary"
20 • Devuan (and Debian) (by Friar Tux on 2020-10-28 19:52:08 GMT from Canada)
I noticed some of the commenters talking about Debian and Devuan...
The other day I tried debian-10.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso... the grandaddy of quite a lot of Linux distros. Acted like a grandad, too. The installer was this old thing with ‘Tab, Tab, Enter’ type clicking (it did show a cursor dead center on the screen that didn't move). The installation took about 45 minutes. Once the reboot was done you were warned that the desktop enviroment (Cinnamon) was ‘Running In Software Rendering Mode’ - without video hardware acceleration. Everything ran quite slow (grandad-like). Not really out-of-box. Needs to have an upgraded installer and maybe the acceleration software should be installed and configured by default, maybe (looks like the grandkids are doing it better than the old timers).
While I was at it I tried devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso... Granpappy's younger brother. A bit faster, as expected, but when I tried to install it I got this long, involved thing that included a terminal with the warning not to close the terminal and lots of other windows besides. No simple installer here, either. (I quit after the third group of windows, and the notice that I had to install some ‘grub-pc’ package myself. (I thought the installer was supposed to do that, silly me.))
Mind you, I shouldn't talk. I'm "getting there" myself - age-wise.
21 • On Debian (by Cheker on 2020-10-28 22:38:21 GMT from Portugal)
@20 I would guess you downloaded one of the free(dom) ISOs. Debian's website does a pretty good job at hiding the ISO's that contain proprietary blobs, which...okay, it's commendable from a philosophical standpoint, but people want their computers to work, so they're going to want the nonfree ISOs. They're the ones that have the drivers that actually work properly. Once I figured that out, Debian never gave me any sort of trouble ever again.
22 • Non-free drivers devs (by Otis on 2020-10-29 15:25:22 GMT from United States)
@21 "...people want their computers to work, so they're going to want the nonfree ISOs."
So they find the non-free stuff and download and use it and "..never have any sort of trouble ever again."
That's wonderful. It made me wonder if there are any distros out there that include the non-free stuff and have a provision for getting money to the developers of the non-free drivers, etc. I know that there are many distros that provide a "donate" button at their websites, and also that there are distros that we must pay for to download. Do any of those distros get some of the funds that they collect to those software developers?
I think some of them have the non-free proprietary developers on their distro development team, and that is good if they get paid for their non-free work (that many of us benefit from).
23 • Non-free drivers and firmware (by Jesse on 2020-10-29 15:41:29 GMT from Canada)
@22: "I think some of them have the non-free proprietary developers on their distro development team, and that is good if they get paid for their non-free work (that many of us benefit from)."
I think you may misunderstand what people here mean when they say "non-free" in relation to firmware and drivers. When people talk about non-free firmware and drivers they are referring to code licensed with restrictions that prevent people from seeing and/or modifying the driver code. In this case "non-free" means software under a limiting license that is really bad for other developers and users. It's done almost exclusively by large companies like Intel and NVIDIA as a way to prevent people from understanding and improving the code.
In this context "non-free" is not referring to the cost. Typically non-free drivers and firmware are available at no monetary cost.
24 • non-free has no place in Open Sorce World (by Antonio on 2020-10-29 22:57:40 GMT from Canada)
Hi folks;
Antonio is here, now is the time for everyone to say anything.
As posted by #23
"When people talk about non-free firmware and drivers they are referring to code licensed with restrictions that prevent people from seeing and/or modifying the driver code. In this case "non-free" means software under a limiting license that is really bad for other developers and users. It's done almost exclusively by large companies like Intel and NVIDIA as a way to prevent people from understanding and improving the code."
No one knows what "NON-FREE" does in the background.
As said in the subject "non-free has no place in RMS created everlasting Open Source World."
That's it. period.
25 • Free or Freed - that is the clarification (by Fossilizing Dinosaur on 2020-10-30 00:38:01 GMT from United States)
It's easy to avoid the deliberate conflation that was so urgent decades ago
with a simple single-letter adjustment. It's (high?) time.
26 • unused disk space (by linuxdaddy on 2020-10-30 02:40:02 GMT from United States)
I use antiX 17.4.1 and 19.3 and my main tower has a 500gb hdd of which
275gb is being used currently.
27 • Non-Free (by whoKnows on 2020-10-30 06:26:13 GMT from Switzerland)
@24 • non-free has no place in Open Sorce World (by Antonio)
“As said in the subject "non-free has no place in RMS created everlasting Open Source World."
That's it. period.”
Theorettically correct, but practically ... we would have 0.2 instead of 2 % of Linux users.
Depending on your view, the sooner we get "non-free has no place in RMS created everlasting Open Source World", the better.
😉
28 • @#27 (by Antonio on 2020-10-30 06:57:32 GMT from Canada)
Don't you have a choice for non-free? Does anyone prevent you to use non-free?
Further more many commercial OSes are there as well.
Everyone can use whatever he/she wants.
29 • Choice (by whoKnows on 2020-10-30 07:17:29 GMT from Switzerland)
28 • @#27 (by Antonio)
"Don't you have a choice for non-free? Does anyone prevent you to use non-free?
... Everyone can use whatever he/she wants."
Theoretically correct, but practically ... there is no sense in using Linux if half of the Hardware is not properly recognized/working and without those proprietary bits and pieces, one's owner of a brand new and shiny 13.3 / 14 / 15.6 / 16.3 ... Inch Linux paperweight ... no Wi-Fi, no Bluetooth ... no music, no video ... no keeper.
However, I agree with “To each, its own”. Everybody gets, what it deserves.
As of me personally, PC is a tool and not the ideology — either it does the job or ...
30 • free, non-free, well a little bit... (by Igor on 2020-10-30 07:59:42 GMT from Croatia)
Like in all things politics, radicals are few, and most people are pragmatic. Which doesn't stop them being prone to one or the other side of the argument. And the argument is actually not about freedom. It is people who are free, not states, nations, religions or indeed a code.
What Jesse outlined acutely is that the argument is about cooperation versus competition. Only then comes the choice, both sides are swearing by it.
31 • Re: Devuan (and Debian) (by tuxayo on 2020-10-30 20:35:33 GMT from France)
Friar Tux:
> The installer was this old thing with ‘Tab, Tab, Enter’ type clicking (it did show a cursor dead center on the screen that didn't move).
Yes that thing is still there with these issues...
A new thing since two versions is that the live version comes *also* with the Calamares installer when booting in live mode.
32 • Obscurix (by nanome on 2020-10-31 12:19:05 GMT from United Kingdom)
As it's a bit quiet here this week, I wanted to say a little more on Obscurix. Whilst I have yet to run it from the ISO [soon], the github source [scripts] are a wealth of ideas, some of which I will incorporate with my daily work tools. Especially the Bubblewrap container [Firejail is toast] and Xpra [as Xorg is unfixably vulnerable]. However, TorBrowser is way too slow over ADSL broadband. A big thankyou to "madaidan".
33 • Disc space (by Jeff on 2020-10-31 13:53:38 GMT from United States)
IMO it is foolish to buy a small SSD, the larger they are the faster they are; compare the same brand and model of drive and you will see.
Since the main point of an SSD is speed why handicap yourself by choosing a slow one?
34 • Why a small (and perhaps slower (smaller cache)) SSD @33 (by Fossilizing Dinosaur on 2020-10-31 16:35:25 GMT from United States)
Could be:
• assuming smaller is cheaper, even though Supply/Demand can drive pricing in another direction
• reluctance to spend more power (or space) on storage not needed
• OS limitation
• speed increase of larger-capacity SSD relative to lesser-capacity SSD is less important than speed increase relative to other media or interface
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DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series. These operating systems belong in the same class as Linux in that they are based on UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly is a fork in the path, so to speak, giving the BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely new direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series.
Status: Active
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