WordPress Multisite on DebianWordPress Multisite on Debian
WordPress (a common CMS for blogs) is designed to be copied to a directory that Apache can serve and run by a user with no particular privileges while managing installation[...]
Category: Linux
QEMU for ARM ProcessesQEMU for ARM Processes
I’m currently doing some embedded work on ARM systems. Having a virtual ARM environment is of course helpful. For the i586 class embedded systems that I run it’s very easy[...]
More KVM Modules ConfigurationMore KVM Modules Configuration
Last year I blogged about blacklisting a video driver so that KVM virtual machines didn’t go into graphics mode [1]. Now I’ve been working on some other things to make[...]
Video Mode and KVMVideo Mode and KVM
I recently changed my KVM servers to use the kernel command-line parameter nomodeset for the virtual machine kernels so that they don’t try to go into graphics mode. I do[...]
Ethernet Interface Naming With SystemdEthernet Interface Naming With Systemd
Systemd has a new way of specifying names for Ethernet interfaces as documented in systemd.link(5). The Debian package should keep working with the old 70-persistent-net.rules file, but I had a[...]
BTRFS Status April 2014BTRFS Status April 2014
Since my blog post about BTRFS in March [1] not much has changed for me. Until yesterday I was using 3.13 kernels on all my systems and dealing with the[...]
Swap Space and SSDSwap Space and SSD
In 2007 I wrote a blog post about swap space [1]. The main point of that article was to debunk the claim that Linux needs a swap space twice as[...]
Is Portslave Still Useful?Is Portslave Still Useful?
Portslave is a project that was started in the 90’s to listen to a serial port and launch a PPP or SLIP session after a user has been authenticated, I[...]
Hetzner now Offers SSDHetzner now Offers SSD
Hetzner is offering new servers with SSD, good news for people who want to run ZFS (for ZIL and/or L2ARC). See the EX server configuration list for more information [1].[...]
ZFS on Debian/WheezyZFS on Debian/Wheezy
As storage capacities increase the probability of data corruption increases as does the amount of time required for a fsck on a traditional filesystem. Also the capacity of disks is[...]