Technology by Martin Vahi

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This page is intended only for people with technical background in Information Technology (IT).

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As of 2025_04 this page is still under construction and probably won't be updated anytime soon, because I try to redesign my whole web site and I also have other priorities, which, unfortunately, tend to be related to getting any computers to run at all.

As of 2023_12 I have came to a conclusion that I do not want to reinstall operating systems over and over again, which is why I'm experimenting with a solution, where I have one desktop computer with operating system booting from HDD and a set of SSHFS+VNC/RDP connected old laptops and other desktop computers that may use internal HDDs, but boot from an MDisc based live-DVD.

That idea also fits well with a usage pattern for using Raspberry_Pi like computers. The usage pattern is that Raspberry_Pi boot-SDCARD content is public, shared with everybody, but all data is on USB-storage, preferably on magnetic USB storage (classical HDDs) in an USB-HDD-box that has its own power supply. As Flash memory, including that of the various memory cards, holds data, including filesystem formatting data, reliably only about one year, the Raspberry_Pi memory card needs to be over-written (by using Linux program "dd") with a proper, uncorrupted, image about once per year. So it makes perfect sense to keep all user specific data off from the Raspberry_Pi memory card anyway.

As of 2023_12 the operating systems that I have used are (antibot passwords need to be manually inserted, not copy-pasted):



In the past I have had some luck with openSUSE Linux, but the policy at openSUSE seems to be that they only offer drivers for newer hardware, so older laptops and desktop computers may work by chance, but there might be some hardware drivers missing. In the past I have also had some luck with the original Debian, but as of 2023 it seems to me that the Debian project has an awesome package collection, but the Debian operating system specific parts seem to be not-that-well-tested. Hence my inclination to use some Debian based distro that is not the original Debian. What regards to packaging one's development tools to some virtual appliance, then the virtual appliances have the fundamental issue that they are stored on real appliances that have the HDD/SSD/storage_device and filesystem related instabilities, specially if some driver makes the Linux kernel go cracy/semicrash and then the flawed Linux kernel in RAM writes whatever it happens to write to any of the storage devices that are connected to that device. No RAID is going to help in that scenario, but a RAID-like system across different computers so that there is only one "RAID-disc" per computer _might_help_. (Again, that's still subject to experimentation and yet another hurdle that I have to overcome besides "real work" of software development.)

Hopefully that explains, why my home page development tends to have relatively low priority.

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