2026 Green Powered Challenge: Solar Powered Pi Hosts Websites In RAM

If you started with computers early enough, you’ll remember the importance of the RAMdisk concept: without a hard drive and with floppies slow and swapping constantly, everything had to live …

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2026 Green Powered Challenge: Solar Powered Pi Hosts Websites In RAM

If you started with computers early enough, you’ll remember the importance of the RAMdisk concept: without a hard drive and with floppies slow and swapping constantly, everything had to live …

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Obsolete hardware

Whenever I need to run an operating system on obsolete computing hardware, I find the smallest distribution Puppy Linux comes into mind.
The last number of years Slitaz has been doing an enormously great job keeping my old hardware to chug along.

Slitaz is so small it can run on RAM:

That's Amiga speak for ramdisk

#hardware #obsolete #distro #small #environment #Puppy #Slitaz #Linux #keep #running #technology #programming #efficient #Amiga #RAM #ramdisk #FAST

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Les RAMdisk ne sont pas morts et permettent plus de 30 Go/s en 2025 http://dlvr.it/TM2PPF #RAMdisk #Mac
Les RAMdisk ne sont pas morts et permettent plus de 30 Go/s en 2025

Dans les années 90, les Mac permettaient directement de créer un RAMdisk, un espace de stockage de petite capacité stockée directement dans la mémoire vive. À l'époque, c'était une solution intéressante dans certains cas, comme sur les premiers Mac...

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Macのメモリ上に一時的な高速仮想ドライブを作成できる「TmpDisk」がAPFSとNoExecオプションをサポートし、CLIツールを追加。
https://applech2.com/archives/20250719-tmpdisk-for-mac-ram-disk-management.html

#applech2 #仕事効率化 #github #Mac #OSS #RamDisk #メモリ #レビュー

Macのメモリ上に一時的な高速仮想ドライブを作成できる「TmpDisk」がAPFSとNoExecオプションをサポートし、CLIツールを追加。

TmpDiskはMacに搭載されているメモリを一時的に揮発性の高速な仮想ドライブへ変換しマウントできるようにしてくれるアプリで、元TwitterのエンジニアのTimothy Marksさん(Imothee LLC.)がオープンソースで開発していますが、このTmpDiskが「TmpDisk v2.2.x」アップデートで、APFSやNoExecオプションなどをサポートしています。

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The Complete Guide to Installing, Configuring and Operating Plex Media Server on Ubuntu Server (11/14)

📺 Create a RAM disk for fast, temporary processing (Beginner-Friendly!)

Optimise PMS by configuring a RAM disk for handling temporary files and avoiding wear on the physical storage. Plex relies on the underlying Ubuntu.

https://youtu.be/963F5HOIVaE

#PlexMediaServer #UbuntuServer #HomeServer #SelfHosting #PlexSetup #PMS #TTMO #Streaming #Beginner #HowTo #RAMDisk

PMS on Ubuntu: Step 11 of 14: Setting up a RAM Disk in Ubuntu

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@paul_cS. I think I rebooted the computer between benchmarking and adding the #ramdisk to the /etc/fstab. In effect I made a ramdisk, benchmarked it, rebooted and then copied my files on the /mnt/ramdisk location of my M.2 NVME instead of RAM itself. At least this is what I think happened. And because it's a good one the I/O speed difference wasn't enough for me to notice.
Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

Given my interest in extending the life of my SD cards and hard drives as much as possible, I’m surprised I haven’t come across /dev/shm before. In a word it’s a world-accessible RAM scratchpad, which seems baked right into POSIX, so that virtually every ~Unix~ EDIT: Linux system already has it mounted as a tmpfs by default: 1 2 ❯ mount | grep '/dev/shm' tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64) Today’s lucky 10,000, indeed.

Help? I created a #ramdisk on #openSUSE #Thumbleweed using #tmpfs and it somehow is persistent. 😳 Isn't it supposed to be "volatile", and wiped on a reboot?

My #computer remebers things it wasn't supposed to. I'm worried what else it remembers. It think it might secretely be sentient. Send help.

#Linux #spooky #GhostInTheShell #how?