Fedora on Nicolas Massé

Homelab: 2U server, short depth, with front IO, based on Ampere Altra and Asrock Rack ALTRAD8UD-1L2T motherboard

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200

In March of this year, I decided to find a new server to host the family’s data (Jellyfin, Nextcloud, etc.), control the house with Home Assistant and run the VMs I need for my work. In this article, I detail my constraints and the construction of this server, based on an Ampere Altra CPU (ARM64 architecture).

Build your own distribution based on Fedora CoreOS

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Fedora CoreOS is a new Linux distribution from the Fedora Project that features filesystem immutability (you cannot change the system while it is running) and atomic upgrades (you cannot break your system if there is a crash or power loss during the upgrade). Upon installation, Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) can be tailored to your needs using Ignition files. Once installed, you can install RPMs, tweak configuration files, etc.

This article tries to explore Fedora CoreOS customizability one step further by building your own distribution based on Fedora CoreOS. The idea would be to have everything wired in the Operating System image and minimal configuration in the Ignition file.

Is my NTP daemon working?

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0200

If the time on your workstation or server is not stable, strange errors might appear, such as:

$ tar zxvf /tmp/archive.tgz
tar: my-file: time stamp 2019-03-28 14:04:45 is 0.042713488 s in the future

This can happen when your NTP daemon is not synchronized. This means it cannot reliably determine the current time.

Testing hard-drive or SSD performance on Fedora

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0200

If your Linux system appears to be slow, it might be an issue with your disks, either hard drive or SSD. Hopefully, with a few commands you can get an idea of the performances of your disks.