Hyperling
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* Remove Thunderbird and Audacity. Don't add Geary to new installs but don't remove it in case it comes with the distro. * Remove Thunderbird from Favorites. * Add more systems to Dev branch. * Add sudo so older distros don't ask for password on every app update. * Alias for sync to help save some time typing. * Post less often to hopefully allow keeping up a year of data in less than 16GB.
ansible
Getting real with system management via ansible-pull.
Disclaimer
This setup is specific tom the maintainer's devices and needs. You're welcome to use it as an example for your needs, but do not expect it to work as-is.
Currently Supported Linux Systems
Debian Family
Debian
But only if using a recent enough version of Ansible. pip likely has a better version than apt.
Ubuntu
100%
Pop!_OS
100%
Mint
But not really used, just tested once for fun.
Parrot Security OS (MATE)
Still testing, but so far so good!
Arch Family
Manjaro
100% at some point.
Currently Supported Unix Systems
FreeBSD 12, 13
100%, although GUI has not been tested on 13 yet.
Software choices are slightly more limited since not flatpak-enabled and not feeling a ports setup.
Waiting To Be Tested
Kali Linux
Arch Linux ARM
Specifically for the Pinephone.
Arch Linux x86
Would be great to have Arch get built up by this. Used for many years but left after update problems due to a long computer hiatus.
Future Goals
Make the preferred user's name per-device, specified in the hosts file, rather than the hard-coded ling.
Eventually some of the scripts and install files will be put into the files folder. This will allow initializing systems outside of the maintainer's home network.
There may also be a refactor of task-specific facts to be in their task file so that some playbooks can be more self-sufficient and be provided to the community without hacking. The original goal was to never define facts in tasks, but the benefit has yet to be seen for some tasks. Shared facts will definitely continue to exist under the facts tree.