‘Corrosion’ of Russian Chain of Command – is Russia about to ‘Break’?
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive strategy of ‘Starve, Stretch and Strike’ is having an obvious effect on some of Russia’s best Commanders.
- Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is gone after his failed 6/23/2023 rebellion.
- Major General Ivan Popov was dismissed around July 11/12, 2023.
- Major General Vladimir Seliverstov was dismissed on July 15, 2023.
Those last two are serious losses for Russia’s Defensive strategy against Ukraine’s Counteroffensive, and reflect that Ukraine’s strategy is working. Those two “strong-willed commanders” were not going to allow Putin and his Military cronies to use their troops as Cannon fodder.
‘Starve, Stretch and Strike’ – Russia’s Defense becoming ‘Brittle’ in War of Attrition
Ukraine’s Military Commanders have done a brilliant job in their planning & conducting of this war against Russia’s reinvasion.
Just the opposite was done by ‘Paper Bear’ Putin and his top Military Commanders.
From day two of Russia’s reinvasion, it has been obvious that Russia’s entire Military is incredibly inept—by September of 2022 it was even obvious to the ‘untrained eye’.
Now – one can start to see just how ‘Brittle’ Russia’s defense against Ukraine’s counteroffensive is becoming: ‘Russian defenses in Ukraine are likely brittle’.
Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon – Part 3: Booting the new Fat32 & Ext4 USB’s Porteus 5.0 installation
(NOTE: Am closing down my old Linux Newbie – since 1996 WordPress.com blog (is Private now), and am in the process of refreshing and moving some of the content over to my self-hosted KM&T (Karmi’s Musings & Tech) blog here.)
This is Part 3 of this Porteus v5.0 series, and I am sorta gearing the series towards MS Windows users, but still mindful of interested Linux users. I have been using Porteus Linux since March of 2022, but have found it to be the most interesting Linux OS I have ever used (since 1996), and it has already become my favorite ‘Working‘ Linux OS. I had been using the Porteus 5.0rc3 until Porteus 5.0 was released on July 3rd, 2022. The 5.0 release candidate 3 was fine, but the Porteus 5.0 final release has been smoother ‘n snappier than 5.0rc3 was. Porteus’ Developers/Team have done an excellent job!
In Part 1 we covered creating a fat32 ‘Live‘ Porteus USB, and then using its GParted app to prep a Target drive.
In Part 2 we prepped a Target drive wid two partitions – a 360 MiB fat32 partition & an 114.26 GiB ext4 partition. Then we used the EFI, boot, and porteus folders – located on that fat32 ‘Live‘ Porteus USB to create the new Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon installation that had a fat32 ‘n an ext4 partition.
- This was the best method I could come up w/ for any interested MS Windows users, who might not have access to apps for creating ext4 formatted partitions.
Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon – Part 2: Installation – Fat32 *PLUS* Ext4 or Fat32
- (NOTE: Am closing down my old Linux Newbie – since 1996 WordPress.com blog (is Private now), and am in the process of refreshing and moving some of the content over to my self-hosted KM&T (Karmi’s Musings & Tech) blog here.)
This series is mainly for potential Windows users. In Part 1 I mentioned two options for installing Porteus v5.0 onto a USB: 1) using a fat32 formatted partition. 2) using two partitions – a smaller fat32 formatted partition plus an ext4 formatted partition.
As most Windows users know, formatting a USB drive is limited to a size of just 32 GBs max when using fat32, which is why fat32 formatting is generally found on the smaller USBs.
In this ‘Refresh‘ of the original Part 2 in this Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon series, I am going to cover three Steps in creating various versions of the Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon OS – a ‘Live‘ version which will be used to create the other two versions (or Steps).
Porteus Linux works great on a 32 GB USB…heck, the updated Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.0-x86_64.iso I downloaded was just 359 MBs…1 MB smaller than the 360 MB one I got a few days before.
No *BLOAT* on Porteus Linux! I’ve recently tested it on a 16 GB USB w/ no problems ‘n plenty of room. I even formatted that 16 GB USB w/ Two Partitions – a fat32 plus ext4 partitions.