Have you ever heard of Juno Computers? I hadn’t either. If you have been following me for the past few episodes you would know that I am a recent Linux convert. During this phase I started listening to some podcasts and some of them have sponsors for their shows, and three brands come up all the time:
These three companies all ship Hardware with Linux pre-installed. Like System76 have a wide range of laptops ranging from $899 (or £710-ish in real money) for their Galago Pro and they pre-load that with Pop!_OS it’s in house distribution or Ubuntu.
Today we talk about something that means more to the Linux community than the kernel.
Community, This is one of the biggest driving force for desktop Linux. This comes if all forms, from Telegram groups, IRC channels, Discord, forums, podcasts, GitHub, YouTube the lost goes on.
These are ways for people in the community to share their knowledge, enjoyment, news about Linux and all things tech. It’s these channels of communication that keeps me in Linux. I truly believe without the Linux community I would be back on Windows.
What do you get when you get when you put a hand full of people in front of a microphone every fortnight, who enjoy Linux Mint?
Introducing mintCast , a collection of individuals from all walks of life, with a common passion for technology, Linux and generally geeking out. mintCast is a long running podcast. It started out with Rob and Isaac who carried the touch for 300 ish Episodes before passing it on to the current hosts.
Juno Computers
Its been a long time coming , but here it is. My review of Juno Computers high end Linux laptop.
The Gemini 15 a Laptop starting at around
£770 ( $969 US, €878 ) for a 8th gen i5 8265U, 8GB DDR4 RAM ,128GB SSD, available in Silver or Red,
and your choice of OS, from Elementary OS to Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04 or a DIY option so you can install what you please.
On first un-boxing we get, the laptop , power brick and plug, nothing standoutish here, apart from how light it felt.
Which is not surprising when the laptop only weights 1.7KG which is 3.74lbs for our friends over the pond.
I Made it !!
One whole year in Linux ( on my main PC at home that is ) , no Dual-Booting, no VM’s, Just pure Linux for a whole year. If you look back at Episode 002 through to Episode 005 [ Part 2 ] where my journey began. I can tell you it has been one hell of a ride.
I will mention, I made a deal with myself when committing to ditch windows that i would stick to a distro and learn it, and I am yet to shift from Linux Mint , I have however rode, the upgrade train from 19 up to 19.1 and then 19.2 (eagerly awaiting 19.3 due soon)
So this post isn’t like my others, it’s not related to Linux, Gaming or Laptops. I had a bit of a WTF moment when it came to telephone scams.
I had a call from a ‘private number’ they claimed to be my mobile provider. Alarm bell number 1 🔔. They said that there has been an attempt of upgrades on my account with telephone ending in *64 ( which it does ). OK I thought, could be legit, let’s hear him out. He waffles on for a bit about what phone that is being upgraded etc. To which I politely ask, “is there a number I can call you back on as it’s showing private number”. Hesitant, but the chap on the phone obliged , says , “yea that’s not a problem, these internet phones display private numbers sometimes”.
You probably aren’t aware but this blog, like my old one runs on Google cloud platform, on the free tier micro instances which has 1 shared vcore and 512mb memory.
They have 20Gb disks, 5Gb snapshots on a schedule. Pretty handy for a free VPS*.
*It now costs only a few pennies a month due to the change in IP addressing and tax.
Not going to going to go into how I set it up here but , my Wordpress I pretty much followed CTT’s guide on free website on CGP. There were some things had to tweak and change and I do have some notes, if you’re interested @me and I can do a write up.
I have been a Linux user for a little over 2 years for my personal computing, During my time with Linux i have noticed something, we love the command line, but why?
I spent 20 years using Windows (I still use today for work as a lot of us do) and out of all that time, the only time that stands out when I used the command line in Windows was to ping an IP or google.com to test/diagnose network issues. In Linux I use it all the time, and i don’t even second guess it.
About this series..
In this series I plan to walk you through setting up a server/s using easy to follow step by step guides. This series is for every level of user.
I will pre-face this with I am not an expert and these guides have formed from my experience setting up servers/containers, all the hiccups I faced I will try to guide you through these and where to look for extra help.
Hello 👋
It has been years since I have wrote my last post about why we love and hate the CLI (EPISODE 014 - CL… WHY?) And I would like to get back in to posting on a regular basis.
I have changed role from a Infrastructre project engineer to a Linux Engineer, and I am getting to play with loads of new technologies so I would like to share some stuff I have learned and Issues I have come accross in the hope it will help someone else.