It’s not that complicated, though many want to make it… Think of Linux distros like a restaurant menu — most othe time you can just order a la carte , add all the apps to your distro, say for example, add the LibreOffice (word, excel, draw, etc) or add wireshark, tcpdump etc. it does not…
Category: Linux system configuration
Managing a number of NUCs for web/email/LLM servers for fun, I like to automate as much as reasonable, but all in Linux (Ubuntu, Jetson Nano & CentOS).
More to come as time permits — I have a number of posts in the queue. Jetson Nano — got it bumped to Jetpack 6 recently, amazing speed increase, as iGPU took over…
KVMs
KVMs (PiKVM and JetKVM) so I don’t have to crawl into the server closet (comparison) I recently got two types of KVMs: Given the usage, the PiKVM with the 12 hosts, is obviously more suitable for the server closet, whereas the JetKVM is perfect for the one machine in my office. More to come, like…
Using LVM/LVM2 for a resilient scalable drive array, with script to re-initialize array
63 terabytes of storage built from 8 USB drives in “RAID 1” configuration — I.e. you don’t lose data even if one drive goes dead. No limitations by the size of one disk/volume that you add, instead all disks are combined together in volumes (and you have multiple columes) that you define, the you slice…
I Like the NUCs (fanless tiny servers, except when the heatwave happens)
I have a tower built on NUCs built to serve email/web/VPN/wifi/etc Only after the California Heatwave did I realize that you can’t just stash the whole system in a closet without some FANs for cooling — The Manufacturer suggested Amazon Infinity Fans, which have now worked beautifully. smartctl -ax /dev/nvme0