Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 10/1/23 18:46, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > There I disagree, Greg, it makes a handy download tool, directly
> > > > from wherever, directly to the machine that needs it.  That,
> > > > apt/synaptic and git are the major net tools I use.  Obviously I'm
> > > > not trying to run them simultaneously. Every machine here 7 ATM, can
> > > > browse the net, making it very easy to keep them up to date.
> > > Do you have some big honking KVM to multiplex all those machines
> > > onto your screen and keyboard, or do you actually have 7 screens and
> > > 7 keyboards and you need to walk over from one to the other?
> > Here I was going to ask if you'd ever hear of ssh and sshfs. but thn I read
> > the next paragraph.
>
> Then why do you need to run firefox on the rpi's?  I'd use Firefox on my
> desktop and if I need to download files to one of the other machines,
> I'd copy those files via `scp` or `sshfs` or even NFS (NFS
> authentication is a PITA in my experience, but if you can use
> a dedicated local network where you all machines can somewhat trust
> each other, NFS can be a good option).

NFS is a pita.
sshfs just works for file movement. ssh -X for login stuff. It helps of 
course that I am the only "live user"

> > And Odroid?  Where do I send condolence flowers?
>
> I was not super happy with some aspects (e.g. the fact that I can't get
> the source code for some of the firmware, including the Petitboot that's
> included, nor is there any way to change that firmware's config (e.g. to
> make Petitboot use the serial console rather than the HDMI output)), but
> in practice it works well and the hardware is fully supported by the
> vanilla Linux kernel.
It wasn't anywhere near primetime ready when I bought on 7 or 8 years 
ago. Actually supporting linux was not then a prioirty. I use winderz 
stuff for target practice here.
>          Stefan
>
> .

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