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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 23, 2023
> Since I returned to the office in 2022 after the remote work mandate was lifted, I have been using portable Linux desktops that I made.
> These are convenient USB drives with persistence that I boot and so I can circumvent the restrictions (not to mention the spying) in the Windows desktop.
> Apache is one of the most reliable web server software powering millions of hosting servers to run various types of websites. Apache2 is the second version of the Apache HTTP server and is available for all the major operating systems such – as Windows, macOS, and Linux. One of the reasons, why the Apache web server is still active and used by millions of people around the globe for a very long time is its support for various programming languages such as PHP, Perl, and Python; and its capability to serve static and dynamic web pages.
> Apache2 is also highly configurable, therefore developers can use it to customize the server’s behavior and performance to meet their specific needs.
> Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a popular computing service that allows users to create a virtual machine using various available Linux and applications Images. It is provided by Amazon Cloud with a complete infrastructure to host commercial applications on Linux virtual machines. In short, it is a Cloud service to create virtual servers.
> The interface of AWS is easy to manage that’s why even a new user with some technical knowledge can easily create an EC2 instance and configure it with prefer an operating system, hardware configuration, and required software packages. Depending upon the needs users can launch, terminate, and manage instances and even can scale up or down as demand changes.
> Users will charge on an hourly basis for an Ec2 Instance which further depends upon the instance type, usage duration, and data transfer. To cater to different kinds of users’ requirements Amazon Cloud offers a variety of instance types each optimized for different types of workloads and hardware configurations, such as compute-intensive or memory-intensive applications.
> An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of its well-earned reputation comes from being built in Lisp which allows it to be expanded to do almost anything. Despite this in-joke in the community, though, you will still need an actual operating system to run it, but not much more than that.
> This project uses User-Mode Linux (UML) as a foundation to load almost nothing other than an Emacs editor. UML is a virtualization technology that allows running multiple Linux kernel instances as separate virtual machines, so once the Linux environment is started and Emacs is compiled, the virtual machine can essentially boot straight into an Emacs environment. Some tools are needed outside of the Linux kernel like mount which allows the virtual file system to access the files needed to build Emacs, but as far as lightweight or minimalist Linux distributions go this one definitely gets at least an honorable mention.
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