Monday, January 2, 2023
NUC Base
I did not use my NUC Base as a portable device.
Instead of I used my external disk with Linux in them to boot.
That means I have to chose each device on boot up and GRUB did not have all devices recognized.
What I did was opened the NUC removed the SSD inside and put a SSD without a GRUB and reinstalled Debian and Emma.
Emma recognized all the distributions in three SSDs.
Finally I disconnected the two external SSDs.
If I want to boot Star Linux or Sparky Linux I would stick the external disk and pick and choose the distribution I want from GRUB Menu.
NUC Base is quiet and no games.
I have only 4GB RAM 4.
Removing the SSD was difficult with finger.
Nothing to hold on to.
I used a pair pincers to slip it out.
Top enclosure has SATA power cord and data cord.
There is no room to manipulate my fingers and use my hand to slip out without pulling out data and power cords.
It has no ports for new NVMe cards with high capacity high energy use.
My requirements are minimal and if you have lot of stuff choose a NUC with better CPU and motherboard.
Otherwise you would be disappointed.
Wait till prices come down.
We are back to power cuts in Ceylon.
I was making a USB stick with multiple Linux Options when the power cut mode came into operation.
I am using Linux MiltiSysyem Utility.
By the way, Emmabantus has MultiSystem as an application, which another plus point of Emma.
Luckily UPS lasts more than 20 minutes and I safely exited.
I bought it for Rs.45,00/= and it is now Rs.15,000/=.
I should have bought another one.
I have another UPS which backs up for 10 minutes.
This NUC boots up any USB stick with a distribution except BSD.
On a different topic why all the guys in the West do not talk about Russian Linux distributions.\
I did not use my NUC Base as a portable device.
Instead of I used my external disk with Linux in them to boot.
That means I have to chose each device on boot up and GRUB did not have all devices recognized.
What I did was opened the NUC removed the SSD inside and put a SSD without a GRUB and reinstalled Debian and Emma.
Emma recognized all the distributions in three SSDs.
Finally I disconnected the two external SSDs.
If I want to boot Star Linux or Sparky Linux I would stick the external disk and pick and choose the distribution I want from GRUB Menu.
NUC Base is quiet and no games.
I have only 4GB RAM 4.
Removing the SSD was difficult with finger.
Nothing to hold on to.
I used a pair pincers to slip it out.
Top enclosure has SATA power cord and data cord.
There is no room to manipulate my fingers and use my hand to slip out without pulling out data and power cords.
It has no ports for new NVMe cards with high capacity high energy use.
My requirements are minimal and if you have lot of stuff choose a NUC with better CPU and motherboard.
Otherwise you would be disappointed.
Wait till prices come down.
We are back to power cuts in Ceylon.
I was making a USB stick with multiple Linux Options when the power cut mode came into operation.
I am using Linux MiltiSysyem Utility.
By the way, Emmabantus has MultiSystem as an application, which another plus point of Emma.
Luckily UPS lasts more than 20 minutes and I safely exited.
I bought it for Rs.45,00/= and it is now Rs.15,000/=.
I should have bought another one.
I have another UPS which backs up for 10 minutes.
This NUC boots up any USB stick with a distribution except BSD.
On a different topic why all the guys in the West do not talk about Russian Linux distributions.\
Paranoia?
I am intrigued by YouTube guys not talking about Russian Linux distributions.
Star Linux has Mobile, Tablet and Desktop mode which is very good approach for a Laptop.
If you can stick the cellphone mobile mode is good to unload excess data and photos to the NUC or PC.
Russian unlike American are practical minded.
Only down side is one user per computer which is capitalistic mind set.
One cannot make your PC a Family Unit.
Star Linux has Mobile, Tablet and Desktop mode which is very good approach for a Laptop.
If you can stick the cellphone mobile mode is good to unload excess data and photos to the NUC or PC.
Russian unlike American are practical minded.
Only down side is one user per computer which is capitalistic mind set.
One cannot make your PC a Family Unit.
I have overcome it by using multiple distributions.
I tried various method to dual boot with Star Linux and failed with my old Laptop but not with NUC.
It is old and the BIOS does not support dual booting.
I actually used BSD on a DVD to erase BIOS dictates.
BSD full version (not the USB mode) does not boot from my Laptop.
By the way, Star Linux is Debian based and it has introduced Russian Fly Desktop to Debian.
Developers from outside Russia should make a note of it's innovative approach.
I have found another problem with Linux Mint.
It's GRUB boot detection is hopeless.
It could not detect Sparky Linux and Russian Star Linux in one of my external SATA disk.
I am installing Ubuntu 22.10 again to get the GRUB configuration correct and to detect all my external drives.
I am on a relaxed mode but did not erase Mint.
Best Thing for me -2022-was Intel NUC
Yes best thing that happened to me in 2022 was Intel NUC.
I wanted a clutter and wire free Table Top and quiet PC with low power capacity.
All in one place but no games in spite of 8GB RAM.
All the fun I had spoiled by PoP OS and PCLinux.
My advice for newbies is to, not to try them.
They cannot dual boot and figure out how ESP partition works.
This applies to Zorin, too.
Ubuntu has the best ESP workout and Debian has got it's act right but not Emmabantus.
Mind you I use Emmabantus in my writing mode to use AbiWord.
I wanted to update my OLP PC and tried both PCLinux and PoP OS and they ruined my GRUB boot record.
When I was testing BSD it took over my first hard disk formatted it and I did not know this fact but I still could boot the second hard disk.
All my old DATA is in this disk including old Linux images for 32 bit computers.
It was only Gnome's GParted that alerted me that it is formatted to XFS partition.
Any way I got Debian and Astra Linux already installed but without a boot GRUB.
Yes best thing that happened to me in 2022 was Intel NUC.
I wanted a clutter and wire free Table Top and quiet PC with low power capacity.
All in one place but no games in spite of 8GB RAM.
All the fun I had spoiled by PoP OS and PCLinux.
My advice for newbies is to, not to try them.
They cannot dual boot and figure out how ESP partition works.
This applies to Zorin, too.
Ubuntu has the best ESP workout and Debian has got it's act right but not Emmabantus.
Mind you I use Emmabantus in my writing mode to use AbiWord.
I wanted to update my OLP PC and tried both PCLinux and PoP OS and they ruined my GRUB boot record.
When I was testing BSD it took over my first hard disk formatted it and I did not know this fact but I still could boot the second hard disk.
All my old DATA is in this disk including old Linux images for 32 bit computers.
It was only Gnome's GParted that alerted me that it is formatted to XFS partition.
Any way I got Debian and Astra Linux already installed but without a boot GRUB.
PoP OS and PCLinux could not touch them.
I am nor installing Emmabantus.
Problem was I did not have Emma's image.
I have erased them to collect empty USBs, having installed it in a MultiSystem USB.
MultiSystem USB could not boot Emma.
I just made a Emma USB using my Iso Store.
I am fully retired and none of this put me on Panic Mode.
Moderna Vaccine abreaction has destroyed my Panic Center in the brain.
That is a bonus from this vaccine.
My advice is never take any of these vaccines which the WHO had Violated all safety Protocols.
I think this guy who is trying to hide under Global Warming, like CDC guy should be sacked along with all neocolonials of Biden administration.
Politics is bane for me and I want the CNN and Fox News who cover up these political guys killed by their own sordid deeds.
Try Al Jazeera instead.
Now I must say Emmabantus got PoP OS booting and my old NVidia card cannot rise up to PoP OS needs.
Astra Linux is booting OK but I have two Emmas in the two hard disks.
One boots automatically.
Now it is 3 AM and I won't try any fancy things for this year 2023.
Happy New Year to all who visits my page.
No more blogging for sometime.
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