MY DAY WITH FEDORA
I used Fedora 28 today for work instead of my usual OpenSUSE Leap 15 installation. Here’s how it went.
I NEED A NEW OPEN SOURCE PROJECT
A few years ago I wrote this rousing email about the Linux Documentation Project and I made waves in a mailing list that lay mostly dormant for years. After the list was rejuvenated, I set out to learn git, then then to find pieces of Linux documentation all around the web and add it. The idea was, find a central place (i.e. TLDP) to store all of the documentation from here and there and then replicate that central store all over the globe for redundancy so it is never lost. I had big goals and then nothing really came of it.
ADVENTURES WITH KUBEADM ON OPENSUSE KUBIC
This video is a little kludgy. It was literally my first time putting together the cluster and if you notice at the end, it doesn’t actually work. None of the worker nodes are actually usable. Hopefully that will be fixed soon.
LATTEPANDA
I picked up a new toy this week to replace my aging and rarely-used Raspberry Pi 3 (original). It came with Windows 10 already on it and I immediate went to the forums for a howto on installing Linux. There is a guide on how to install Ubuntu 16.04 but it seems to require a lot of extra steps (special kernel, etc). I figured it couldn’t hurt to try it with OpenSUSE. At worst it would fail and I would be left with Ubuntu.
FIXING ARCHIVE.ORG'S PDFS
Here’s the webpage for a very early edition of Huckleberry Finn. If you open the PDF using a modern PC or tablet, it will look fine though a little slow to load. If you open it on your Kindle, Nook Color, or some other older Ebook reader that displays PDFs, you’re in for a shock.
CREATING THE ULTIMATE CONTAINER PLAYGROUND: LXD ON KUBIC
Introduction
LXC (Linux Containers) are whole-system containers. They are meant to be able to do just about anything you can do with a VM with a percentage of the system resources and and a tiny startup time.
CREATING THE ULTIMATE CONTAINER PLAYGROUND: SALT IN LXD
Introduction: Installing Saltstack
The great thing about being able to spin up several new system containers running multiple Linux distros is that you get to experiment with software like Saltstack without the hassle of creating multiple VM’s. This can be especially daunting on a machine that is lacking resources.
CREATE A COMPLETE TOR ONION SERVICE WITH DOCKER AND OPENSUSE (EXPANDED)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxiTk6w1sc&t=1076s
I wrote this presentation on the weekends in April and May and it’s didn’t have quite the details that I wanted to put into it. Mostly I wanted it to be short and engaging. Putting in every detail that I wanted would have (I thought) been long and boring. I would like to take the time here to expand what went into the presentation and to make it a little more interesting.
ALTERNATIVE WALLPAPERS
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Since my last post was so popular, here are a couple replacement WP’s that I made myself from schematics for a classic Heathkit HW101 transceiver.
WHY ARE THERE TOILETS ON MY OPENSUSE WALLPAPER?
First of all, the entire wallpaper is here:
On the right-hand side, there are these cool line-art cad drawing with Geeko in the middle. The problem is that these aren’t just just random lines nor are they circuits boards or anything like that. These are architectural blueprints. There are 5 full bathroom and a small piece of a 6th. There’s also a couple of conference rooms.