• SOT: Opening a command shell in ChromeOS and MacOS in a particular

    From Java Jive@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sun Sep 12 22:03:23 2021
    XPost: alt.os.linux

    On 12/09/2021 21:38, Andy Burns wrote:
    Java Jive wrote:

    Now I've discovered that also some members of my family are using
    Chrome OS.

    I've never handled a ChromeOS device, but old posts on reddit say you
    can't get into a bash prompt without enabling developer mode.

    Oh shit! That certainly could make like difficult. I suppose they will
    just have to upgrade by another method, I've given them four, so that
    still leaves three others.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Java Jive on Sun Sep 12 21:38:27 2021
    XPost: alt.os.linux

    Java Jive wrote:

    Now I've discovered that also some members of my family are using Chrome
    OS.

    I've never handled a ChromeOS device, but old posts on reddit say you
    can't get into a bash prompt without enabling developer mode.

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  • From Martin Gregorie@21:1/5 to Java Jive on Sun Sep 12 23:09:31 2021
    XPost: alt.os.linux

    On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:13:54 +0100, Java Jive wrote:

    What would be the equivalents of these two instructions in Chrome OS and
    Mac OS?

    TIA for any help forthcoming.

    Why not run a local web server, e.g Apache, which is a standard package
    in almost every Linux distro? Its not particularly difficult to configure
    and the help available via /usr/share pages and on their website is
    pretty good.

    Your options are to run a local copy (and beef up your firewall if you
    didn't do that already), or to rent web service and storage space from
    your ISP.

    FWIW, I do both: I run a local Apache web server on my LAN. This is a
    single, private local data source for my other computers. I export copies
    of my publicly accessible web pages to rented space at my ISP. The
    advantages of this are:

    1) All public and private pages are edited, tested and backed up locally.

    2) Public pages are exported to the publicly accessible website via
    FTP/SFTP as they get updated.

    3) My local firewall accepts NO inward connection requests and has no
    need to, since all Internet access is via outward connections from
    my LAN.

    e-mail? I run 'getmail' to retrieve inbound mail from my mailbox at
    my ISP. Outbound mail is passed to my ISP for onward transfer by a
    local copy of Postfix


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