Gentoo

First post in the new sysadmin category. I’ve recently realized that I’ve never written about how I’m running my desktop setup on Linux. Triggered by having to revamp one of my Gentoo portage ebuilds for my desktop, let me remedy this and tell you a bit about what my personal computing outside the Homelab looks like. My Linux journey started back in 2007. I was about to start my computer science degree. And I had allowed myself one month between finishing the then mandatory military service and some jobs to bridge the time before University and my program starting in October. At the beginning of September, I got my first University laptop, an Acer TravelMate 5720 Core 2 Duo with an ATI GPU and Windows Vista. Receiving that laptop, I thought to myself: Any real CS student should be running Linux. ...

A description of my lab setup for tinkering with Tinkerbell. This is part 2 of my Tinkerbell series. For my Tinkerbell tinkering lab Actually, no. Let’s start with: How did I not come up with “tinkering with Tinkerbell” until the second post of this series? You may tsk tsk tsk disapprovingly at your screen now. For my Tinkerbell tinkering lab, I decided to run it on my desktop machine. This is because previous work on network booting has shown that I definitely want direct access to the netbooting machine’s TTY. And that’s easiest when it runs on my desktop. Also makes stuff like packet capturing easier. So I needed the following things in my lab setup: ...