--> Quick Questions Quick Replies Why would I want a NAS/Homeserver? If you ask why then you don't need it.
>I want a NAS/HTPC/Plex what should I get? RPi3 or Odroid XU4/HC1. Odroid upper models has USB 3 and USB bus separated from the Ethernet one.
>B-But muh ARM Then check the onboard x86 like J4105B-ITX, J4205B-ITX or J4205-ITX. All of them have SATA and USB 3.
>What's the best [software] for doing [ask]? Specify you question and elaborate. If you want help put something from your side.
>Which disk is better for my homeserver? The general opinion minus some details are that WD Greens are enough if you deactivate parkdrive, and WD Red are Green overpriced. Also Toshiba and HGST are pretty good.
>what the best way to do it? Download the distro you need to know and install it over your windows installation if you have any. Then you should learn the basics.
>Learn the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard >Read all the shortcuts you have on the shell en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline#Emacs_keyboard_shortcuts >Learn how to use the package manager >Learn how to systemd >Learn how to iptables / firewalld Try to use the official documentation as often as possible a lot of howtos and tutorials are written from retards for retards and should never be blindly followed without consulting the official documentation. Read the fucking log files and check if you can increase the log level when something does not work. Some tools you should know for debugging purposes are strace and sysdig.
You should not care too much about Linux after you know the basics it's mostly about the applications you are managing. Learn them they are way more important than Linux.
Christian Watson
thanks user
Austin Carter
desu, the biggest problem is practising. Best way is to use command line to do everything early, so you get used to it. Even when using a GUI is more convenient. Other thing is to learn how to modify config files and manage your process / daemons. When installing a software like vim for example, try to look at the config files, setting up a global one, trying to use a local one...
I'd recommend you to try various distribution to see their differences (you'll see there aren't a lot in the end), and I strongly recommend you installing something like debian (without any GUI at all) or arch linux so you have to install manually and configure manually your system.
Again, if you target linux servers, try setting up server applications. Try running a web server with a database, php, check the config files. Set up a ftp server, e-mail server, streaming server if possible, ssh, try to secure it a minimum.
Learn by practising. Whatever your read will be useless if you don't.
Nathaniel Peterson
You're welcome. Why do you need to learn this?
Angel Rodriguez
I have been working as a car mechanic for almost 4 years despite having no actual interests in cars, I have the chance to get into an IT company of a friend, if I can occasionally manage their servers proberly within 3 months I'm hired. Since I actually like technolgy and working with pcs this is a great chance for me
Jaxon Collins
how difficult would repurposing an old desktop be to run a home server like so? Balls hard?
Leo Rodriguez
oh look, a rack full of loud, power hungry, slow shit.
