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Newly annouced: MINIX NEO J50C-4
MINIX have just announced the NEO J50C-4. Powered by Intel Pentium Silver J5005 processor with integrated Intel UHD Graphics 605, it is a fully configured system pre-installed with 4GB DDR4 memory,...
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Introduction to Crostini - Part 5: Backup and Restore
For the purposes of backup and restore there are conceptually five mutable artefacts: your Google account, the operating system (OS), the VM (termina), your container (penguin) and your local data....
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External access to Crostini VM e.g. for backups or data transfer
This post shows how to set up Samba access to part of the VM filesystem used by Crostini. In an earlier post on backups & restores I explained how to export a backup as a tarfile:and this post...
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Nextcloud on Crostini running in its own container
Nextcloud (a fork of Owncloud) provides file hosting on a private server and when running on Crostini provides a simple way of accessing Chrome OS files from different local devices.It is simple to set...
View ArticleUbuntu announced new point releases for 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS
Canonical have released the second point release of Ubuntu 18.04 Long-Term Support (LTS) as Ubuntu 18.04.2 and have also released the sixth point release of Ubuntu 16.04 Long-Term Support (LTS) as...
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What is after Gemini Lake?
By The Osthoff Resort - www.osthoff.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59894043Elkhart Lake [1]. Based on a 10 nm manufacturing process, the Elkhart Lake SoC uses...
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crostini: '--enable-gpu' not the panacea
Steam on crostini was not a proposition until recently as hardware acceleration was not available. That has changed with the latest development release of ChromeOS (75.0.3761.0) as it is now possible...
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Intel's 'Islay Canyon' NUCs Announced
Built for casual gaming and home entertainmentIntroducing the first Intel® NUC with 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processors and Radeon* 540X discrete graphics for all your gaming and entertainment...
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'Austin Beach': Intel's Compute Element Fanless NUC
With Intel's announcement today of the NUC Compute Element [1], drawing a long bow may lead to two observations: firstly Intel is using the halo effect of 'NUC' to overcome the presumed horn effect of...
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Containing your Gaming
Ever felt like playing a quick game of CS:GO while that compilation is finishing without having to install software that could impact how your current development environment is setup? The simple...
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Mini PCs Linux Performance Comparison
Recent vulnerabilities in Intel x86 microprocessors (Meltdown, Spectre, Foreshadow, RIDL, Fallout, ZombieLoad etc.) are now addressed with mitigation patches for the Linux kernel although have resulted...
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Mini PC Reviews
For some time now I've been reviewing mini PCs and in particular comparing their performance in both Windows and Ubuntu against similarly available devices.Whilst some of my earlier reviews were posted...
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New features in 'isorespin.sh'
Canonical publishing new releases of Ubuntu means new release code names, version numbers and updated EOL schedules for existing releases. In turn this drives new versions of 'isorespin.sh' which...
View ArticleCanonical have announced a new point release for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - 18.04.4...
Canonical have released the fourth point release of Ubuntu 18.04 Long-Term Support (LTS) as Ubuntu 18.04.4.I’ve respun the desktop ISO using my ‘isorespin.sh‘ script and created ISOs suitable for Intel...
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Using 'LXPanel' as a UI for Crostini
If you are used to a menu-driven user interface in Linux or find the Chrome OS application launcher not quite to your liking for accessing Crostini Linux applications then one option you could try is...
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Creating and Installing a Server Respun Ubuntu Desktop ISO
Whilst Canonical release'server' images of Ubuntu getting them to boot or install on Intel mini PCs can be difficult especially if the mini PC is limited by the BIOS enforcing a 32-bit bootloader. As a...
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Using 'isorespin.sh' to create a server ISO from an Ubuntu desktop ISO
To simplify the creation of a server ISO by respinning an Ubuntu desktop ISO I've added a new option '--server'. This option is compatible with existing options so you can create a server ISO that...
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linuxminipcs.com
A while back I created the website www.linuxminipcs.com which I hoped would become the 'go to' site for all matters Linix on mini PCs. Unfortunately it didn't go viral! Neither has it got much...
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Canonical have announced the release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - 20.04 (Focal Fossa)
Canonical have announced the latest release of Ubuntu 20.04 Long-Term Support (LTS) as Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa).I’ve respun the desktop ISO using my ‘isorespin.sh‘ script and created ISOs...
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Comparing packages between ISOs or between an ISO and those locally installed...
This is the first of three posts introducing a couple of new 'ISO' tools that I've developed to complement my 'isorespin.sh' script.The first tool is 'isocomparepkgs.sh' which is a script to compare...
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