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Jorge Castro
Personal blog · ypsidanger.com · on HN as jcastrosystemsprogramming
Jorge Castro's personal blog at ypsidanger.com covers systems and programming. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The Linux distribution model is changing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jorge Castro's posts on Linux distributions, Fedora-based Project Bluefin, Homebrew on Linux and toolboxes or Distrobox as references. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stuff about open source, beagles, and probably other less interesting things.
Most-linked posts?
- The Linux distribution model is changing5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-06-03
- Homebrew Is Great on Linux3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-24
- Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-28
- Comparing OpenSUSE MicroOS and Fedora Silverblue2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-12
- Building your own custom Fedora Silverblue image2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-10
- Let's just kill the silly myths2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-28
What Hacker News says?
Jorge Castro wrote about MicroOS https://www.ypsidanger.com/catching-up-with-opensuse-microos... and eventually chose Fedora to base uBlue and Bluefin on: https://www.ypsidanger.com/announcing-project-bluefin/
Comment linking /announcing-project-bluefin/
on “OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 to Be the Last in Its Current Form”Submitted Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux as a story · 201 points
HN discussionThe disk space thing is a myth, once you start to install apps people actually use it ends up being about the same. If you test it with VMs you can check it out for yourself: https://www.ypsidanger.com/wasting-disk-space/
Comment linking /wasting-disk-space/
on “Flatpak is not the future (2021)”Submitted Immutable Linux desktop with OpenSUSE and Snaps as a story · 46 points
HN discussionThis is a tangent, but do you have a resource/link to where the base image is defined? For example I saw that in your blog [1] you used the base on line 1 `FROM ghcr.io/cgwalters/fedora-silverblue:37`. I was wondering where I could find the Containerfile for that, my Google-fu and searching through the Fedora pages are failing me [1] https://www.ypsidanger.com/building-your-own-fedora-silverbl...
Comment linking /building-your-own-fedora-silverblue-image/
on “Project Bluefin Linux”Submitted Thanks Microsoft, you solved my homelab problem as a story · 4 points
HN discussionUse brew on Linux! https://www.ypsidanger.com/homebrew-is-great-on-linux/
Comment linking /homebrew-is-great-on-linux/
on “I hate packaging my software for Linux”Submitted Homebrew Is Great on Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe linux desktop is in the middle of moving to a zero trust model: https://www.ypsidanger.com/the-distribution-model-is-changin...
Comment linking /the-distribution-model-is-changing/
on “Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparently)”Submitted The ability to send a plain text email is not a skill people care about (mostly) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2PrISAOtbY https://www.ypsidanger.com/toolboxes-are-not-just-for-specia... Tried in a VM. Seems to work, but needs more evaluation to see how it works in real life. You can even make a Distrobox the default in your terminal.
Comment linking /toolboxes-are-not-just-for-special-cases/
on “Switching to Fedora from Ubuntu”Submitted Comparing OpenSUSE MicroOS and Fedora Silverblue as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's just kill the silly myths as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's just kill the silly myths as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting yourself up for success before trying Fedora Silverblue as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Universal Blue is helping me build an open source Chromebook alternative as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Linux distribution model is changing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building your own custom Fedora Silverblue image as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing OpenSUSE MicroOS and Fedora Silverblue 37 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homebrew is great on Linux (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Project Bluefin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The distribution model is changing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The distribution model is changing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The distribution model is changing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Universal Blue 1.0 – a toolkit for customizing Fedora images as a story · 1 points
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