[u-u] Rocky Linux and other bits...

[Colin McGregor]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:55 PM Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> I'm now waiting for Fedora LTS :-)
>

Hahahahaha


> As for the Raspberry Pi. its 2020 hardware releases -- the 400, a Model 4
> built into a keyboard and a fan for its official Model 4 case -- was
> underwhelming to say the least.
>

The Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM from earlier this year was a very solid
release.


> I'm hoping that there'll be a Model 5 in 2021 with a little more power and
> a proper M.2 slot. In the meantime, I'm looking at this case
> <https://www.argon40.com/argon-one-m-2-case-for-raspberry-pi-4.html> that
> can fake it using one of the USB3 ports.
>

A Raspberry Pi 5 would be cool, what could also be very cool would be an
upgraded Raspberry Pi Zero.

I have one of those Argon One M2 cases on order. I also have
ordered/received two of these bases to let me upgrade some of the Argon One
cases I already own (yes, I have a Raspberry Pi ... problem ... ):
https://www.argon40.com/argon-one-m-2-expansion-board.html , So, for all
practical purposes I have a pair of Argon One M2 cases...


> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
> @evanleibovitch / @el56
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 10:37, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> To follow-up on this week's UU meeting...
>>
>> The question of what to do about the earlier (like 8 years earlier) than
>> expected end-of-life for Centos 8 came up on Wednesday. Looks like the
>> answer may be Rocky Linux, which plans to be Centos before Red Hat / IBM
>> took it over. A summary of the current situation regarding Centos and a
>> link to more information about Rocky Linux can be found here :
>> https://hackaday.com/2020/12/09/centos-is-dead-long-live-centos/
>>
>> I was up in the small hours of December 10th for that new Raspberry Pi
>> product announcement I heard about. Didn't happen, grumble... What did
>> happen is later on the 10th the Raspberry Pi people did release a new book
>> "Help! My Computer is Broken (How do I fix it?)", in other words an
>> introductory book on computer troubleshooting. I would hope everyone on
>> this list is well beyond needing a book like this for themselves. On the
>> other hand as I assume many of us are called in to act as tech support for
>> family members, so a book like this MIGHT (obviously I haven't read the
>> book to know how good/bad it is, so MIGHT) be a great birthday and/or
>> holiday gift...
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>
>> Colin.
>>
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