[Cialug] Arch Wiki (was: Decent diy nas box -- Woot)

[Matt Stanton]

For any Linux newbies or anyone who ever needs to go beyond the default configuration options provided by your choice of user-friendly distro, the Arch Wiki may be the most complete and user-friendly collection of information available to the community.  I have used it to [properly] configure bumblebee for a laptop with an Intel on-chip GPU and an additional Nvidia Quadro discrete GPU so that I could get the low battery usage of the Intel GPU while being able to switch to the Nvidia GPU for high performance in 3D gaming.

Where the Arch Wiki is lacking, the Arch Linux forums generally have additional how-to and troubleshooting information.

Arch is a great distro for getting dirty in the setup and configuration of a systemd-based Linux distro.  What you learn from installing and configuring Arch Linux a couple of times will give you an idea of the work put into setting up a custom distro.  It also teaches you where everything in the average Linux goes, and what you need to know to track down configuration problems if you ever have trouble in the future.  If you are at the point where you are fairly comfortable getting Ubuntu up and running, and you have learned how to use cat, man, grep, vi or nano,  and sudo, it is time for you to provision a small virtual machine or drive partition to practice setting up Arch into a system that is configured the way you would want your Linux PC set up for general use.

Even if you don't want to practice with Arch Linux, their wiki and forums have an unmatched collection of valuable Linux information that is applicable to the whole Linux community.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Theron Conrey <theron at conrey.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:24
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Decent diy nas box -- Woot

As an aside: Running FreeNAS is fine, but the state of ZFS on Linux has
gotten MUCH better in the last few years and I'd recommend new folks to
"DIY storage" folks w/ linux experience to leverage that experience and
just layer on the storage bits.  FreeNAS is a great standalone device, but
if you're doing linux sysadmin-ery already in your environment, leverage
that w/ ZFS instead of adding YAPTM (yet another platform to manage).

While installing ZFS on Ubuntu is trivial, once installed I like to point
people to the Arch docs for ZFS as they're pretty good for beginners. (skip
the install bits and just jump to the configuration section)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS

I run 4x8TB drives in a zfs box on a supermicro board with 4 gigs of ram
with an icydock tool less drive sled i picked up from newegg years ago.





On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:52 AM, <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://wootstalker.com/ -- site owned/operated by Cory, the guy behind
> me. Helps to get good deals on woot. For example, I got a sewing machine
> for my wife for $40 that retails for $160 the other week when they were
> having a wootoff, a day of lots of good deals. 😊
>
>
> From: David Champion
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 9:48 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] Decent diy nas box
>
> I've used an older model of these Dell T series servers for FreeNAS
> servers. This one has a quad core xeon and 8gb RAM, has 4 HD bays.
>
> https://computers.woot.com/offers/dell-poweredge-t30-
> intel-xeon-mt-server?ref=eml_w_nd_3_tl&ref_=pe_3185080_247127410
>
> -dc
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