I guess if you write a set of declarations for NixOS you can copy that same file to the new machine. Thanks for the pointers. What about the “install facts” being just a byproduct of the first install? You don’t even have to write a script… anyway. It seems there are ways to do this already, Thanks!

I have changed the syntax a little: //jo jobname owner(username) log(mailto=user@location) class(a) //** Note that the next step copies /etc/passwd to /tmp/jobname/passwd and then later deletes it when the job is done //dd passwd disp(scratch) source(file=/etc/passwd)
//ex cat passed //!! End of Job

What if one could use this to submit jobs to run on a local server (or a far away one) via email - mail lcl@remoteserver.org Then either paste in the lcl file or attach it to the email. If your owner clause is an email address, the job will be returned via email. The username on the owner clause has to be also a user on the remoteserver. If your username on the two machines differ, you may have to use a //ex to send the log back to you.

It is not mandatory that you install it - Yes, there are other choices already. But in the beginning, Unix only had C and Assembly why didn’t we just stick with those?

Debian/KDE because I like the way I can customize (1 panel on the left with everything) No features removed just as one gets used to them. (looking at you gnome) No breaking changes to the desktop gadget api every update (you gnome again) Nice big repo.

@droolio@feddit.uk I see what you’re asking. You’re wondering if, instead of storing a duplicate file when another backup set already contains it, I could use a hardlink to point to the file already stored in that other set?

I have a system where I create a backup set for each day of the week. When I do a backup for that day, I update the set, or if it’s out of date, I replace it entirely with a fresh backup image (After 7 backups to that set). But if the backup sets became inter-dependent, removing or updating one set could lead to problems with others that rely on files in the first set.

Does that make sense? I am asking because I am not familiar with the utilities you mentioned and may be taking your post wrong.

There is also Workspace Behavior=>Screen Locking where one may set automatic screen lock, ( I uncheck both boxes )

My first distro was Yggdrasil

I only do a few things to my stock KDE, 1)dark theme 2)1 panel on the left cuz my screen is wide 3)install a few of my favorite apps. 4) No timeouts, no auto screen locks. Does a standard set of plugins for Firefox count? Setting up my email account in Thunderbird?

Too bad you can’t post a usage notice that anything scrapped to train an AI will be charged and will owe $some-huge-money, then pepper the site with bogus facts, occasionally ask various AI about the bogus fact and use that to prove scraping and invoice the AI’s company.

That’s not to say any other OS effort is not also a soap opera. I bet Microsoft has its fair share of drama, too; it’s just that no one sees it because the development effort is proprietary.

–some-- free users. unless I have to upgrade - free for a month and then $19.99 a month after that. nope.

btw, I am a he/him : ^ ) But thanks for being inclusive.

Ok I finally bit the bullet - Windows is blown away. I have not played Timberborn in over 2 months and having a windows machine on my network has always kinda made me feel like I had a spy in the house. Unfortunatly the wife works from home so there are still two windows machines I can’t do anything about. My ASUS Vivobook i7 15" laptop is getting Debian but no GUI installed. I don’t need a GUI to setup tailscale do I? Anyone know of a good settlement or city building game that is free and runs under Linux?

I really just want small and light, and Cheap. 11" is fine. I have a 15" right now. If I decide to give up on Timberborn (I rarely play it and it is the only thing that keeps a windows machine on hand) then this could get re-installed with probably debian with no GUI… I play it rarely, but I still play it. I wish I could get it to run under Debian 12 on my main machine.

too small, no keyboard - I tried using my phone with a USB keyboard and a OTG adapter and most keys work but for some reason escape did not.

I would not be running a gui - this is strictly for text stuff unless I can do pixel/plot graphics in some BASIC or other language (a framebuffer?)

Is coreboot that system where the machine basically boots into a FORTH interpreter that has vocabulary words to read and boot from various media. That would be sweet - Forth is a hoot once you get used to it.

Yeah, This sounds like the thing… I really have to limit the cost to “Recycle cans and bottles” money because we (wife and I) recently bought me parts for a mini-ATX workstation ~$500.00 i5 8gb memory and an SSD I already had.

The hard part is tiny: 10" diagonal screen and really cheap: like milk money cheap - - Perhaps a netbook would work, some of them were Linux based right?