I use(d) Libreboot on my Lenovo W500. And it works fine… but I want to install FreeBSD on it. The GRUB payload Libreboot uses by default isn’t compatible with the FreeBSD bootloader. It is possible to boot FreeBSD from GRUB or try to recompile Libreboot with the SeaBIOS payload. …But I just wanted to play with coreboot, to be honest :-)
I migrated my blog from Octopress to Jekyll. The primary reason is that octopress isn’t maintained any more. I’m sure its great theme will live on in a lot of projects.
I like static webpage creators, they allow you to create nice websites without the need to have any code on the remote website. Anything that runs code has the possibility to be cracked, having a static website limit the attack vectors. You still need to protect the upload of the website and the system(s) that hosts your site of course.
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I use OPNsense as my firewall on a Pcengines Alix.
The primary reason is to have a firewall that will be always up-to-update, unlike most commercial customer grade firewalls that are only supported for a few years. Having a firewall that runs opensource software - it’s based on FreeBSD - also make it easier to review and to verify that there are no back doors.
When I tried to upgrade it to the latest release - 19.1.7 - the upgrade failed because the filesystem ran out of inodes. There is already a topic about this at the OPNsense forum and a fix available for the upcoming nano OPNsense images.
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In my previous two posts (1, 2 ), we created Docker Debian and Arch-based images from scratch for the i386 architecture.
In this blog post - last one in this series - we’ll do the same for yum based distributions like CentOS and Fedora.
Building your own Docker base images isn’t difficult and let you trust your distribution Gpg signing keys instead of the docker hub. As explained in the first blog post. The mkimage scripts in the contrib directory of the Moby project git repository is a good place to start if you want to build own docker images.
Read more...In my previous post, we started with creating Debian based docker images from scratch for the i386 architecture.
In this blog post, we’ll create Arch GNU/Linux based images.
Arch Linux stopped supporting i386 systems. When you want to run Archlinux on an i386 system there is a community maintained Archlinux32 project and the Free software version Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.
For the arm architecture, there is Archlinux Arm project that I used.
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