I’m running my own Matrix homeserver for a number of reasons – one of them is simply economical as ‘disk space’ on a mobile phone is way more expensive than on a server. You can easily slap a few TB into a server without any problems whereas phones still do have a long way to go. Long story […]
Tag: linux
Working my way to automatic kernel builds
It’s pretty obvious, that me maintaining the debian kernel repository which I announced in this post is a lot of work as I offer up to 4 flavors – which are ‘vanilla’, ‘vm’ and both for the gentoo patchset, I had to improve my setup. First of all, the introduction of ccache did shave off a few seconds […]
Bash files vs configuration
You guys know me, I do script a lot of stuff to make my life easier. Starting from my (smart)home to my server maintenance – it just saves too much time. And today I would like to share some ideas on how (not?) to work with configuration stuff in bash. First of all: Configuration on some scripts may […]
Yubikey for system auth
Linux is a beautiful system that can be customized in very many ways – it amazes me everytime how easy or which features I can add to my system for making life easier for me. Today: Login using the Yubikey. System Authentication is pretty easy on Linux system if we stick to PAM, which allows us to mix […]
ccache on kernels
As I am building debian packages of recent kernels, I have to build the same thing over and over again – pretty much three times to be exact. Once for ‘vanilla’, second time for virtual machines and third time for gameservers using the gentoo patchset. If you check back on my post about ccache on gentoo you might […]