Fedora released a new cloud image in January for RISC-V, and it can be run as a virtual machine on the QEMU emulator. The system is relatively straightforward to set up, and it allows enthusiasts and developers who do not have the hardware to experiment and test RISC-V on a virtual machine.
You know the cliché about small steps. Everything starts small. Many start small but give up too early. You have to be prepared to grind, day after day, week in week out. The people that succeed take a risk, but most importantly they have patience and perseverance. Faith.
My move to Linux in 2018 was born out of frustration with Windows and a desire to experiment and try something new. What I found was a lean, bloat-free system that gave you freedom to experiment with free software, endless customisation options, and the education of a lifetime.
GoatCounter is a free, open source and easy to use analytics platform that offers free web analytics for your website or blog. Unlike other free tier offerings, this does not require self-hosting, and can be set up with a simple script tag on your home page.
Emacs and Vim are popular text editors for Linux that enable fast and efficient editing of text using special keys and keystroke combinations. Read on to find a handy cheatsheet table for common Emacs and Vim commands.
Ollama is an open source tool that allows you to run a wide range of Large Language Models (LLMs). This is great for the privacy conscious, with no input data being sent to the cloud. Meta's Llama 3.2 text only models feature three billion (3b) and one billion(1b) parameter models. Their small size makes them ideal for local operation on smartphones. Ollama can be run on Android, using Termux, which is a Unix/Linux based command line tool and utility.
TvHeadend is a TV streaming server and recorder that can use TV as an input source, such as cable, terrestrial and satellite, as well as SAT-IP and HDHomerun. It can be installed on a Rasprberry Pi, and TV content can be streamed over your local network using a multimedia player such as Kodi.
If you have set up SSH authentication with Github you may run into the issue of not being able to connect to your repo on the command line. The Github documentation primarily focuses on https authentication, but this officially ceased in 2021 and can give you issues and throw you for a loop. Sounds familiar?
Nixos is a good solid distro that offers lots of flexibility and customisation for experienced Linux users, but as an immutable distro it's not without its pitfalls and gotchas. You need to be comfortable declaring your system packages in a config file, then saving and reloading. Rinse and repeat. There are endless ways to do things on Nixos. It can be a struggle, from dodgy documentation and everything else in between.
MKDocs is an easy-to-use python static site generator that makes writing and publishing to the web a breeze. But you firstly need a virtual python environment on your local machine, as long as it's not an immutable distro you will be fine. read about Nixos here