I recently decided to wipe my work laptop of Ubuntu and put Arch Linux on there. It isn’t sanctioned by enterprise support so I was on my own to get things up and working. For the most part, it was painless except for the Citrix client. Here are the gotcha’s I had…
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Aesir is an attempt to make the unRAID interface visually stunning while at the same time making it accessible for new users and old alike.
It is a big project and so we would welcome any help from interested parties, there are several areas that people can help out with.
In recent years it has become increasingly popular to own your own home server. Whether it's for personal private data backup, home automation or media storage more and more people are looking into solutions that fit their own personal needs. This guide will cover step-by-step how to go from nothing...
NFS (Network File System) is a network sharing protocol that is commonly used by Linux servers due to its low network overhead and use of UID authentication.
NFS is particularly useful for low power systems such as the Raspberry Pi thanks to this lower overhead when compared with Samba. In conjunc...
I’ll leave a lot of the theory out and just focus on trying to get you up and running as quick as possible providing example commands. I found the biggest hurdle when learning Docker was understanding exactly what it was and why I should care. I wrote a little post sharing my thoughts on Docker on...
AUFS and SnapRAID is a completely free drive pooling and drive fault tolerance setup. Its hugely powerful but not simple to setup for a newbie. This post will explain how to set them up and build a high performance NAS server for your home using all free and open source software. What is AUFS? What’...
This post is aimed at making setting up KVM with virt-manager a breeze. If you havn’t already, set up X11 forwarding to a remote host or install some kind of a GUI on your Arch install then load up virt-manager via Pacman.
It is assumed that you have created a user, added them to at least the wh...
There comes a point where it is useful to run Linux GUI apps elsewhere every once in a while and in my case virt-manager. Thus I set about figuring out how to use X11 forwarding from Arch Linux to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This is how it’s done.
As usual, most of this inf...
This post is aimed at simplifying the process of installing Arch on Logical Volume Manager (LVM). The info in this post came mostly from this excellent Wiki article, with a couple of additions later on of my own.
Why LVM? You can create a snapshot (see my blog post for these) then install some...