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John Ramsden
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John Ramsden's personal blog at ramsdenj.com covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Zedenv ZFS Boot Environment Manager”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in two comments: one on running Linux on a Microsoft Surface (an Arch Linux install guide), and one on ZFS boot environments in Ubuntu's experimental installer. Commenters cite the posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
John Ramsden's personal website
Most-linked posts?
- Zedenv ZFS Boot Environment Manager2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-29
What Hacker News says?
I switched from Arch Linux to NixOS last year and it was a great experience https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/19/switching-to-nixos-from-arch... . The community is relatively small and easy to get into, with lots of people ready to help out beginners. It took a while to get used to, especially considering the way to learn how something works seems to always be to go and read source code on GitHub. There are good things a…
Comment linking /2017/06/19/switching-to-nixos-from-arch-linux.html
on “What is Nix and why you should try it”Submitted Show HN: Zectl – ZFS Boot Environment Manager for Linux as a story · 119 points
HN discussion> I'd love one if I could put linux on it You can. https://ramsdenj.com/2016/08/29/arch-linux-on-the-surface-pr... "Something that sets the Surface apart from other popular tablets, is that it doesn’t artificially limit your capabilities. If you want to use it as a laptop, or install alternate operating systems on it, you are free to do so. I think the Surface is going to make a great Linux laptop, and I look forwar…
Comment linking /2016/08/29/arch-linux-on-the-surface-pro-4.html
on “Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader”Submitted Zedenv ZFS Boot Environment Manager as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot really, I use it on Arch as my root drive https://ramsdenj.com/2016/06/23/arch-linux-on-zfs-part-2-ins... and never have a problem. It's been useful multiple times for informing me that I have a problem disc, and being able to go back in time and look at how things have changed on my system with snapshots is of great benefit. Being able to rollback, clone filesystems and send them around is great too. With archz…
Comment linking /2016/06/23/arch-linux-on-zfs-part-2-installation.html
on “ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver”Submitted Packaging Wine Application 'Path of Exile' with Flatpak for Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Will anyone, and if so for what purpose? Boot environments are very handy for updates: * https://ramsdenj.com/2018/05/29/zedenv-zfs-boot-environment-... * https://mwl.io/archives/2363 Also, being able to snapshot the entire system at regular intervals, show diffs between snapshots, and then perhaps do security analysis on the results might be handy.
Comment linking /2018/05/29/zedenv-zfs-boot-environment-manager.html
on “A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer”Submitted Running Nextcloud in jail on FreeBSD as a story · 1 points
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