Thank You for visiting this page.
This page is intended only for people with technical background
in Information Technology (IT).
As of 2024_05 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):