The homeserver received a major upgrade to do more tasks. I chose an ASUS PRO WS X570-ACE as its mainboard. It provides sufficient bandwidth especially PCIe lanes. In addition to a true RAID controller I want to use the mainboard's RAID controller, too. Rumors had it that this should be bootable even from the two available NVMe slots. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. More…

The common desktop Linux variants like Fedora, Ubuntu or Debian have an installer that gets the average computer up and running within a few hours. Its result is an absolutely usable desktop environment. But Linux is so much more. When using Linux From Scratch, Arch Linux or Gentoo you end up touching a mirror turning your finger into liquid metal. Either panick now or see behind the Matrix. This is the first part of 4 starting with suggestions for filesystem layout. More…