Hans Fernhout's Blog

I have a little home server that I use to store media, email, as a NAS, and as backup storage device. One of the disks was getting quite full, so I decided to add a disk in RAID-0 mode (striped). Luckily this disk was formatted with btrfs, which supports various multiple disk architectures.

Alpine runs in memory on the Pi, which is great for performance, security, and for minimizing wear on the SD-card. The downside is that it has no persistent storage. Everything done on such a system is cleared out on reboot.

I started this blog with the default theme, but after a few articles I think it is time for a more practical theme.

I already said that I like Gentoo Linux, but it can take some effort to keep it up to date, especially on less capable hardware. I tried to install Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi 4B and found a way how to do that, years back. However, that project is dead now, and the successor project on the Gentoo Wiki looks a lot more complicated. I have done those cross compile excercises in the past, and found that it requires even more maintenance than regular Gentoo. No thanks.

Krapplet, is coming nicely along. I have just released version 0.2.0 with some enhancements and a few bug fixes. It is nice to write some awesome piece of software, but it would also be great if people would use it. For people to use it they first would have to notice it, and then it should be easy to also install it on their system. My hope is by packaging krappet for multiple Linux distros that I achieve both of those objectives.

For years I have been tinkering with computers and software, but rarely documented much. Sometimes I would do something genius, it works, yay!