My Desktop PC Setup and Creating a Ceph Common Ebuild for 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. ...