The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Kindve a specific question but has anyone here done self hosted K8s? I want to try it as a learning project, but with minimal experience and documentation being niche I was hoping for some suggestions. I'm thinking of running it on top of plan old Debian like most of my servers. I was also wondering if there's any issues with just mounting an old fashioned NFS share for my main storage repository. I read some docs recommending against it, saying it can be slow, but given the enterprise nature of this setup it may not be an issue for my use case.
 
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it's always a good idea to try and push yourself and learn new things, however i would recommend following the docs as closely as you can while you're learning it.
don't get me wrong, trial by fire learning is a great way to learn new things. but for enterprise things you'll wanna learn how it's expected to be configured and installed before experimenting with it so you learn about any quirks before hand.
debian shouldn't be a problem but some enterprise software may only support ubuntu or redhat, if it supports ubuntu then it could work on debian but it's a gamble.
if the docs say to stay away from nfs, then you really should. I've never personally worked with nfs but I've heard anecdotes from old linux/unix admins that nfs can be a nightmare to work with.
even if you don't mind the speed penalty/slowness, speed doesn't always mean mbs a second. it could refer to response time, reliability during transfers or even IOPs. those can ruin a enterprise setup to the point of unreliability or nonfunctioning if they don't meet the requirements.
if you'someoing this for yourself then that's different but if it's for a business (real or fake for learning purposes) then you've gotta keep this in mind because it can cause massive issues.
I'd also recommend posting on the Level1Tech forum since they're more likely to help you understand and troubleshoot anything you come across. (even if the software isn't popular, someone on there most likely has used it at some point)
hope this helps.
 
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I'm a retard with no money so I can't say much about synology but I can confirm ProxMox is practically the swiss army knife of servers. It's super super versatile and you can run shit on old ass computers from the early 2000's using even ddr2 ram and shitty as mobile core cpu's. Absolutely worth at the very least just setting it up to poke around in.
 
HootersMcBoobies said:
I've been using it since ~2004. It's still my primary distro and I love it. My current box has been getting rolling updates since 2012.

As far as USE flags, I still have shit like aim and cdrw in my flags (which I think are entirely unused now). But from what I understand with newer builds, you can use one of the desktop profiles and it gives you some sane USE flag defaults.

I'm glad the last post was Gentoo related, as I jumped into this thread to post some news about Funtoo. Sadly it seems to be end-of-life. I briefly tried Funtoo around 2017 for a bit .. was kinda nice, but then I sold the laptop it was on and haven't touched it since:

archive: https://archive.is/wip/E9hZm
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
It's pretty good, makes Gentoo a lot more comfy.

From https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart:


I have a bunch of packages with abi_x86_32 enabled for Steam and Wine, which it doesn't cover, but that's my main gripe.
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Thanks guys. Is there a way to browse online what binpackages are available and for what USE flags?
 
TheDataHorder said:
if the docs say to stay away from nfs, then you really should. I've never personally worked with nfs but I've heard anecdotes from old linux/unix admins that nfs can be a nightmare to work with.
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It's just ancient and designed for wired networks where every client had a static IP, since, well, that was the only thing in existence at the time.

There's very little fault tolerance. If you're spinning up an enterprise NFS server accessed by remote employees on sketchy wireless connections pour a forty out for your files.
 
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std::string said:
It's just ancient and designed for wired networks where every client had a static IP, since, well, that was the only thing in existence at the time.

There's very little fault tolerance. If you're spinning up an enterprise NFS server accessed by remote employees on sketchy wireless connections pour a forty out for your files.
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It's perfectly fine for connecting servers hardwired to each other tho right?
 
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For me, Konsole is more than enough, with Terminator being a close second. I go back and forth.
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>st is an F

Opinion discarded. I use nothing but.

Betonhaus said:
It's perfectly fine for connecting servers hardwired to each other tho right?
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I've had issues with NFS locking on the client on two machines directly wired to each other. I keep an NFS server running because it makes Windows interop less painful but yeah. I've stopped trying to use it for daily use.
 
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Ahriman said:

For me, Konsole is more than enough, with Terminator being a close second. I go back and forth.
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Not including the Enlightenment terminal, terminology, which is perfect in almost every single way except having experimental Wayland support? reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 
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Not including the Enlightenment terminal, terminology, which is perfect in almost every single way except having experimental Wayland support? reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Holy fuck not that enlightenment piece of shit. The first and last time I tried enlightenment desktop I had that shit crash in the middle of some college assignments I was doing. Fuck me, never again. Christ.
 
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Enlightenment was apparently used as a basis for UI in Samsungs failed Tizen project.

Emphasis: FAILED project.
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Yeah no shit it failed. I deadass thought I bricked my whole fucking installed when enlightenment crashed. That shit genuinely made my nuts clench with how terrified I was at losing all the work I was doing.
 
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