Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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>get told Arch is idiotproof and there's no need for GUI distros like Endeavour or Manjaro now since you can install your own
>make a live usb and put it into an old Acer Extensa I have laying around
>boot up
>>>get dumped at a text terminal asking me for an internet connection, whose text output goes offscreen.
Fuckin nerds lied to me...
Manjaro is worse because it pretends to be a normal GUI operating system but then as soon as it gets an update which happens every few days it shatters into a million pieces.
People say this but the last time I had a Manjaro install asplode was like four years ago =) but I am trying err away from it.
I used manjaro for like six months and had it completely destroy itself in such a way that I had to completely reinstall I think three times.
Yeah the third time it broke itself I installed PopOS instead and had no stability issues since.
It's been about that long for me, too, and I use Manjaro daily on my laptop.
I think people got turned off from when it used to blow up daily, lmao.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Connect_to_the_internet
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Set_the_console_keyboard_layout_and_font
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
I have a beef with easy arch distros that will never burn away.
You can't have bleeding edge if you're not willing to bleed over hours and hours worth of archwiki and user manuals. Arch users are the eternal beta testers of GNU/Linux.
It's why I'm a happy Linux Mint user :)
I don't necessarily want bleeding edge, I just wanted something that uses less ram than Endeavour and is less stupid than Manjaro? I like Arch way more than Debian tho.
Still your comment is a useful starter guide, ty.
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
If you really want to create a lean operating system you're going to have to venture into a distro like NixOS where you can control the OS stack from top to bottom (excl. Linux, GNU coreutils libc and systemd). But worrying about RAM usage on Linux is more headache than it's worth. We'll always be better than windoze's spyware that eats up 4G of RAM on idle and in the future the performance will improve with improvements to Wayland and app toolkits.
If you want an idiotproof operating system you should go with Fedora Atomic Desktop which uses transactional updates (OS 1 -> OS 2) rather than updating each system package individually, drastically reducing the vector for potential breakage due to a corrupted packages and eliminating the user responsibility of maintaining their own packages on their system.
Arch is for people who want the latest software who are enthusiasts of GNU/Linux itself. They are literally Linux nerds who find enjoyment in the act of learning and playing with Linux and pushing it to its limits.
What I really want to say but I love yapping to not say it is that you shouldn't worry too much. Stick with up to date software no older than 6 months (sorry debian) and your systems should be whistling fine.
You fucking presumptuous motherfuck :> (/joke)
Look right even Manjaro doesn't eat more than a gig idle, the point is more I deploy my OS to several aging, creaky systems capped at 2GB RAM and Endeavour requires 2.5GB. I can install it, but the image boots fucking KDE and it's really dicey that ram situation. I don't need it to be that lean, I've never given a shit about RAM use, linoox can do whatever it wants but when one of my systems gets hard capped for memory, I gotta move.
I hate Debian tho and I am okay at updates, I keep several Manjaro installs from exploding so lmao. I do actually enjoy learning Linux even though I'm really bad at it, so I think I might have the aptitude.
I C. Looks like arch would be better in that situation for install since the net install image is very small on purpose.
I love yapping about various Linux things and I don't get to do it often and the arch wiki and using arch Linux is what got me started.
Yeag =) plus tinkering is funny, I wanna learn stuff. I have the worst brain and cannotath, so this.
Yapping about Linux things is cool!!