Tips: Triyng differents distro with ssh

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damidu
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Joined: 03/30/2021

Hi,

I would like to share a "stupid" tip for trying different GNU/Linux distributions.

I use my computer in "pure" tty. I open a tty, said tty3 and use ssh to connect to virtual machines where I have installed trisquel, guix, debian, openbsd, gentoo etc.

If you use the command line you wouldn't notice differences. All distros use more or less the terminus fonts in tty.

damidu
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Joined: 03/30/2021

No need to always install an operating system on a real machine to try somethings. You can install GNU/hurd in a vm and ssh to it.

Of course I switch sometime to X to install a vm and do ctrl+alt+F3 to go back to tty. It's there, It's running but I don't really care. It maybe a little slower to use virtualization but it's not a drama.

nadebula.1984
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Joined: 05/01/2018

Just be sure that if you use NAT network, you'll have to configure port forwarding. Using a host-only network is good for such purposes.

damidu
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Joined: 03/30/2021

I didn't tried yet but it's possible to setup tty with the setterm command

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/setterm.1.html