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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-07 at 04:36

I'm a little stunned at how well this is running -- 10-year-old budget hardware with Windows 10.

Windows updates are still a total shitshow, but the performance I'm seeing is a lot better than I ever expected.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-06 at 16:08

I'm in need of a personal backup laptop. I imagine this would be a good Linux or OpenBSD machine.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-06 at 16:05

I'm trying out my daughter's old Acer Aspire E15 laptop, which is two laptops ago for her.

I long ago bumped the RAM from 2 GB to 8 GB just to make it work. CPU is an Intel Celeron N2830 (2.41 GHz)

She upgraded from Windows 8 to 10 at some point, and now I'm applying a ton of updates.

I just took Firefox from version 70-something to 135.0.

It still has the original 320 GB drive. I have other drives lying around, but It's probably not worth bothering unless I try to shove an SSD in there.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-06 at 01:24

It's looking like Xfce 4.18. I'd love to be wrong.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-06 at 01:22

I always love that period of time when Debian Stable has a GNOME newer than Ubuntu and Fedora. It's usually only a month or so. It's nice to start a release with a new DE, which makes it easier to ride the 2 years until the next Debian Stable.

I'm pretty sure Debian 13 (Trixie) will also have Xfce 4.20. Good times!

[#]debian #gnome #ubuntu #fedora #xfce

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-05 at 21:13

This gives Debian Stable a nice boost:

Debian 13 Will Aim To Include GNOME 48, Debian/Ubuntu Begin Packaging GNOME Papers - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Plans-GNOME-48

[#]Debian #GNOME

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Shared by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-04 at 05:28 (original by Štěpán)

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-02 at 23:30

The CentOS Stream web site is looking a whole lot better

https://centos.org

January news:

https://blog.centos.org/2025/01/january-2025-news/

What stands out for me is live images (!!)

Here is the documentation from the ALT Images SIG:

https://www.centos.org/altimages/

[#]linux #CentOS

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Shared by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-02 at 22:39 (original by Carina C. Zona)

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Shared by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-02 at 22:35 (original by Carina C. Zona)

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-02 at 22:21

Zola is available for Fedora in the Copr repo. The Linux binary you download from the Zola project also works (and that's what I'm using).

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pgdev/zola/

There are lots of ways to get the Zola static blog engine on various systems.

https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/installation/

[#]zola #fedora #copr

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-01 at 20:01

I always put a limit on the number of items in the RSS feed because I used to run a site with a lot of very large entries, and it was full-text RSS. It would build fine on my laptop, but when I automated it to build on shared hosting, it would run out of memory every time trying to build a single-page RSS with hundreds of text-packed entries.

Setting the RSS limit to 10 fixed it.

Luckily both Hugo and Zola have a configuration option for this.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-01 at 19:35

I am closer to figuring out the Tera templates in Zola. This documentation will get me there https://keats.github.io/tera/docs/

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Shared by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-01 at 03:09 (original by Steven Rosenberg)

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:49

I forgot to write that this is what I have in config.toml for RSS. It's standard, right out of the docs:

generate_feeds = true

feed_filenames = ["atom.xml", "rss.xml"]

feed_limit = 100

The Zola docs' Configuration section shows what it should look like if you choose one of the feed options but not both, so this post isn't a complete waste.

https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/configuration/

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:45

I copied /zola/themes/zola-hook/templates/index.html (and also page.html) into /zola/templates, and I'm editing the files in the latter.

And if I want to either refer to the original index.html and page.html — or copy them over again — I can.

Do any current Zola themes dynamically create index.html with RSS code based on the choices in config.toml? I think I can figure it out, just not today.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:39

I will work on getting references to both atom.xml and rss.xml into index.html, but I'll have to figure out how to code an if statement that looks into an array.

But for now the RSS is flowing, and the site is building.

It's one of the nice features of Zola. If there's a template in your theme that you want to modify, you just move it from the theme's templates directory to your main Zola directory's templates directory. Then you can modify it without touching the theme.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:37

Here are the changes in the index.html file I copied from the theme into my templates directory:

Before:

{% if config.generate_feed %}

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Feed" href="{{ get_url(path=config.feed_filename, trailing_slash=false) }}">

{% endif %}

After:

{% if config.generate_feeds %}

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Feed" href="{{ get_url(path='atom.xml') | safe }}"

/>

{% endif %}

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:36

My Zola site now has atom.xml and rss.xml.

I copied the index.html from my theme into my main Zola directory's templates file, then made the changes that allowed the RSS feeds to build.

[#]zola #ssg #blogging

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Shared by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-30 at 15:55 (original by Steven Rosenberg)

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