In Part 1 I showed the physical setup of this small ARM64 homelab. In this part I will show how I installed LXC on the NanoPi Fire 3 This tutorial was done with the Armbian Bionic image. The Pi will need an SD card installed with an Armbian bionic image (there are lots of tutorials…… Continue reading ARM64 Homelab – Part 2 Installing LXC
NanoPI Fire 3 Review
I recently purchased two FriendlyARM NanoPI Fire 3’s for my homelab project. This is an honest non-sponsored review. The NanoPI Fire 3 is a small SBC that is slightly larger than the Pi Zero at 75x40mm. It features an 8 core Samsung S5P6818 CPU and 1GB DDR3 RAM, gigabit ethernet 1x USB 2.0 type B…… Continue reading NanoPI Fire 3 Review
ARM64 Home Lab – LXC, DNS and DHCP – Part 1
Edit 2019/04/23 – I can’t keep track of all the comments on social media, leave a reply below if you have a question. I’ve wanted a small homelab for some time, I don’t currently have much space and I had a need for multiple hosts. I decided to go down the ARM route as this…… Continue reading ARM64 Home Lab – LXC, DNS and DHCP – Part 1
C-SKY – The Chinese CPU Architecture in Linux Mainline!
Introduction C-SKY is a CPU architecture that is designed to be used in DVB set-top TV boxes. In Late 2018 Linux was ported to the C-SKY Architecture and accepted into Mainline. This is likely the last CPU Architecture to be added to mainline Linux. C-Sky Architecture C-SKY was recently acquired by Alibaba and the CPU…… Continue reading C-SKY – The Chinese CPU Architecture in Linux Mainline!
Persistent Ramdisk on Debain/Ubuntu
The performance of a RAM drive is in general orders of magnitude faster than other forms of storage media, such as an SSD, hard drive, tape drive, or optical drive. This performance gain is due to multiple factors, including access time, maximum throughput, and type of file system because the storage is in RAM, it…… Continue reading Persistent Ramdisk on Debain/Ubuntu