Real bare metal has no operating system on it at all as a starting position. Due to malware infections it used to be possible to go to bare metal and install an operating system to clear the problem but bouncing moon ended all of that. My guess with bouncing moon it'll be time to replace the motherboard and the hard drive to clear that problem. On Sat, 29 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I'm not sure what the canonical definition is, but I consider bare metal to include dual boot. Afterall, dual boot just tells you which partition to boot from, but you're still running the OS with no hypervisor layer or emulation or virtualization. > > -- > Christopher (AKA CJ) > Chaltain at Outlook > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:58 PM > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso > > Bare metal means no dual boot, no vm, an ssd or ide or scsi hard drive is used. > > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > what is bare metal? > > > > I keep hearing that term zand am wanting to find out more inmfo on it > > > > On 1/27/2022 6:10 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > It will be interesting to find if archlinux on bare metal using > > >> pipewire runs into sound problems. > > > > > > > > > I don't think it will have sound problems. Everywhere I run Pipewire > > > on bare metal, it just works with no major problems, and actually > > > few minor problems. Fedora and Arch both seem to work on bare metal with Pipewire. > > > Virtual machines, especially Qemu and I believe VirtualBox as well, > > > seem to be the only places where it appears to have trouble. > > > > > > ~Kyle > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flis > > > tman.redhat.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fblinux-list&data=04%7C01% > > > 7C%7Cebb6cd747b164f36257608d9e2ec5230%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaa > > > aaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637790326897578112%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC > > > 4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000& > > > sdata=lj3YdndSvKYxt%2FdSbwagk1e%2B6tQZ4Hf8d8F9SUoDuiM%3D&reserve > > > d=0 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistm > > an.redhat.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fblinux-list&data=04%7C01%7C%7 > > Cebb6cd747b164f36257608d9e2ec5230%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7 > > C1%7C0%7C637790326897578112%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMD > > AiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=lj3Y > > dndSvKYxt%2FdSbwagk1e%2B6tQZ4Hf8d8F9SUoDuiM%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistman.redhat.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fblinux-list&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cebb6cd747b164f36257608d9e2ec5230%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637790326897578112%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=lj3YdndSvKYxt%2FdSbwagk1e%2B6tQZ4Hf8d8F9SUoDuiM%3D&reserved=0 > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list