I m going to begin researching a diy nas system. If it s not too much trouble I will build one albeit ready to run units are readily available. I m seriously considering buying this one, and saving a whole lot of time, and headaches building it. Then it s just a matter of making it play nice with Linux, (EOS.)
Do you remember a distro called Rock Linux? (Not Rocky Linux.)
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I canât say I remember a Rock Linux. But I do drink a lotâŚ
I mainly used Slackware and Debian in the early-to-mid 90s.
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Their home page. It was discontinued in 2010. The man who got me interested in Linux ran his own Rock distro. Haven t seen him for 20 years, but I don t expect he is running Rock anymore 
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I miss Wolvix.
Ein paar Tage ins GrĂźne fahren 
(1:1 translation: Drive into the green for some days), Non-literal-translation: Go to the countryside for a few days.
But they donât have Plasma 6 here. 
Til now:
Pros:
- runit (really fast)
- base installation size
- learning new distro specific stuff
Cons:
- very basic documentation
- old packages in relation to Arch/EnOS
- no snapper hooks possible in xbps packagemanager
- Arch like manual installation if full disk-encryption desired
- no AUR like repo, as far as I can see and limited package availability
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Can xbps find a package that contains a specific file or command?
For example:
pacman -Qo firefoxsudo pacman -Fyx libasound.so
I had tried xbps in the past, but it has no function for that.
https://docs.voidlinux.org/xbps/index.html#finding-files-and-packages
well if I understand it correctly it can search for files in packages locally but has to download parts of them before, but isnât recommended.
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Fortunately you have EOS to fill it s void.
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Got Virt-Manager with QEMU/KVM up and running! Set up EnOS with Xfce running currently, enjoying it so far.
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Cool! That is exactly my weekend project as well!
And then set up a Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC (ten frigginâ years support, until 2033!) in a WM, with single gpu passthrough (for the occasional gaming).
A long overdue project: converting a Chromebox to a Linux-only system
I have had a Chromebox with an i5 8th Gen Intel processor gathering dust for quite some time.
I upgraded the RAM from 8 to 16 GB and replaced the 64 GB M.2 ssd (not nvme) with a 256 GB ssd.
Flashed the firmware with a modified upstream coreboot (shout out to MrChromebox) and there you have it.
A UEFI capable system already running CachyOS (screenshots here) and Fedora in dualboot. If anything is buttery smooth, this must be it!
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