Tux Machines

today's leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2025

Server

Renan ☛ Maybe we don't need a server

The main private alternative to this is to self host a "cloud" service on your own hardware, be it a virtual machine on a VPS or a physical device in your home. In both cases, keeping that device reachable and secure creates a non trivial work load, requires system administration skills and it's difficult to migrate data from one app to another when the data is in db.

I've been sticking to google products for so long because I don't want to manage my own server for those things, nor do I want to switch to a different service that could shut down or enshitify tomorrow.

Audiocasts/Shows

The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 641: Open to Free

FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more...

Distributions and Operating Systems

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

Ubuntu ☛ How to launch a Deep Learning VM on Google Cloud

Google Cloud and Canonical work together to solve this with Deep Learning VM Images, which use Ubuntu Accelerator Optimized OS as the base OS. These are pre-configured virtual machines optimized for data science and machine learning tasks. They come pre-installed with popular frameworks, such as PyTorch, and the necessary NVIDIA drivers.

Linux.org ☛ Installing Ubuntu on the Orange Pi 5 Max with eMMC and NVMe

In 2024, Orange Pi released a new Single Board Computer (SBC). This is a system with an ARM processor. The specs are: [...]