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Username: Not_Oles
Email: Not_Oles@metalvps.com
Joined: January 2020
Visits: 11,908
Last Active: 3:05PM
Roles: Member, Hosting Provider, Content Writer
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It used to be that some Chromebooks couldn't boot from the USB drive.

In the old days, many Chromebooks could run Linux in a chroot.

Nowadays, if I understand right, mo…

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> [@somik said](/discussion/comment/218228/#Comment_218228): I honestly dont see the purpose of a chromebook

My Duet 5 Chromebook was $369 new. It has a 13.3 inch OLED touch screen.…

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> [@vyas said](/discussion/comment/218225/#Comment_218225): partly informative

May I please ask what it was that you found informative?

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Thanks to [YetiNode](https://yetinode.com) for hosting [MetalVPS](https://metalvps.com) and [FOSSVPS!](https://fossvps.org)

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@cmeerw Congrats! :star:

FWIW, I did ~~read~~ skim through the gnats link you posted and onward also through the references there. First time I looked at nxr.netbsd.org and opengrok. <…

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> [@vyas said](/discussion/comment/217977/#Comment_217977): p.s: everyone is smiling because no kids resemble the Yeti

But. . . .

All mammalian bipeds. All smiling an…

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Thanks @cmeerw! <3 Much appreciated! <3

Thanks to [Hosteroid](https://hosteroid.uk/) for our nice community server! Which is now dual booting Debian and NetBSD. . . .

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Happy Monday!

Today, August 25, 2025, is [FOSSVPS'](https://fossvps.org) one month birthday!

Here is a report on FOSSVPS' first month achievements and plans for the nea…

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All the Chisinau VPSes have been assigned.

All the London VPSes have been assigned.

All the Los Angeles VPSes have been assigned.

Thanks to FOSSVPS' wo…

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As can be seen at [FOSSVPS](https://fossvps.org), only 6 VPSes available!

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Hola @jureve! Any details on your PHP projects? Are they open source so that you could give us a link to the repo? Is NAT IPv4 plus IPv6 okay for you, or do you need dedicated IPv4 plus IPv6?

Thanked by (1)jureve
> [@AuroraZero said](/discussion/comment/217602/#Comment_217602): Big things happening BIG THINGS!!!

Congrats! :star:

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> [@mizzik said](/discussion/comment/217587/#Comment_217587): combine all your offers into a single thread

Yes, maybe there are too many threads.

This offer is diffe…

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@jmaxwell

Apologies again! It seems I must have forgotten to turn your VPS on! It wasn't running when I checked the node.

I turned it on, and successfully got in as roo…

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Thanks @cmeerw!

On the table for discussion at the moment are at least:

* your nice lighthttpd and map install -- I need to take a look
* the LBA[1] filesyste…

Thanked by (1)cmeerw
I think so! Why not! <)

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Excellent!

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Do you plan to serve the map on http(s)?

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NetBSD and Linux are running on some VPSes that I have at several providers.

With one provider, I noticed that the network seemed slower on one NetBSD install than on a comparable Lin…

Thanked by (1)cmeerw
Happy Sunday!

With thanks <3 to [AlexHost,](https://alexhost.com) also here as @Alexhostcom, today [FOSSVPS](https://fossvps.org) and [MetalVPS](https://metalvps.com) offer free Ch…

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@SpeedBus Thanks for posting the reddit link. It was helpful to me!

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@cmeerw Wow! Amazing! Awesome! <3

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NetBSD 11.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Fri Aug 8 16:37:51 UTC 2025

Welcome to NetBSD!

This is a beta release of N…

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Here's a Yabs from the initial testvm1 on FOSSVPS' Alexhost server!

Thanks to Alexhost for their kind donation! <3

Probably I will make some more of these, maybe 4 c…

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Thanks @msatt! Sent you login credentials via PM. Please post here in this thread to let us know how it goes! Best! Tom

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Hello!

Thanks to @dan_onlyservers' kind server donation, <3, @netixen, and @babywhale of [BashVM](https://bashvm.com) fame, [FOSSVPS](https://fossvps.org) is giving away six Debian…

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Here is some definite progress. I just logged into the first Alexhost VPS made by hand with cloud-init and virt-install.

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Welcome to Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.8.0-64-g…

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> @cmeerw said:
> > [@Not_Oles said](/discussion/comment/217147/#Comment_217147): @cmeerw Does it seem too crazy to change hlcs to NetBSD and, if not many people here want to jump on,…

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[NetBSD's new build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up)

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Thanks to @Hosteroid for this nice server! <3 Thanks to @cmeerw for lots of sysadmin and other help! <3

Does anybody else want to hop on? Please read "How To Apply" in the OP.

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[FOSSVPS](https://fossvps.org/) now has a starter website up.

How many of you guys were around in 1985, when I bought my first computer, and when many computer terminals still were gr…

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hlcs# ps aux | grep http[d]
root 21801 0.0 0.0 2112 2640 ?? Ip 6:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/httpd
www 43324 0.0 0.0 4944 8040 ?? Ipc 6:17PM 0:00…

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Looks like the build successfully completed while I was sleeping!

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chown root:wheel /tmp/_etcdir.aHDVzOa8xF/var/sysmerge/etc.tgz
chmod 644 /tmp/_etc…

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What you are asking seems to be the likely reason for the difference in the test results. :)

What I did was just go with the defaults from BashVM and, of course, the installed Ubuntu i…

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@ExAjiMag said:
> > [@Not_Oles said](/discussion/comment/216825/#Comment_216825): What's the difference between the VPSes with 3 digit numbers and the VPSes with 8 digit numbers?
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We ought to make a new thread for this, I guess?

What's the difference between the VPSes with 3 digit numbers and the VPSes with 8 digit numbers?

How come so many VPSes…

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Great news!

The server has been renewed until September 9. Also, it *might* be renewed until October 9 at the lastest, but we are not yet sure what will happen after September 9.

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@imok Welp, @Not_Oles still is here, at least for now. :)

Great progress! OnlyServers responded quickly to my ticket requesting IPv6. So now we have IPv6 that seems to be working.

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Hello!

Thanks to the [kindness](https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4478538/#Comment_4478538) of @netixen, it looks like I might be getting a free server from @dan_onlyservers. <…

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@Freek Really super cool! 😀 Thanks again for posting! 🤩

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Back in March I [posted](https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/9198/manifest-v2-was-disabled-on-my-chromebook-today-but-i-got-it-back-temporarily) about the imminent demise of Manifest V2 in Chrome Bro…

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[Hosteroid](https://hosteroid.uk) has kindly given @Not_Oles and [MetalVPS](https://metalvps.com) a free dedicated server to be used for the benefit of the LES community. @Not_Oles and MetalVPS are o…

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