Prologue I’m playing around with hosting vairious services in LXC and virtual machines on Proxmox. One of the services I’m running is Jellyfin, a media server that allows me to stream my media coll...

Up to now, we’ve built a minimal Linux distribution using a standard kernel configuration. However, we can make it even more minimal by using a tiny kernel configuration. The Plan Here’s what we’l...

This is a simple cheat sheet of common git commands that might be useful. Create local branch Create and switch to a new local branch git checkout -b <branch_name> Push local branch to rem...

What is all about So, picture this: I’m hopping between a bunch of Debian-based Linux distros-Ubuntu on WSL here, LMDE there, plain old Debian somewhere else, and oh look, another LTS distro lurkin...

Last time, we successfully booted a Linux kernel with a BusyBox userspace. Today, let’s try the same process, but this time with Toybox. The Plan Every good project needs a plan, right? Here’s wh...

It always starts easy In my free time, I tinker with my own game engine-because, honestly, who doesn’t tried to create some kind of a game in the past? At some point, while messing around with the...

Last week, I mentioned my goal of building something even more minimal than Linux From Scratch - basically, a DIY Linux system from just a kernel, a few user-space tools, and a bootloader. Well… I ...

A little while back, I decided to take the plunge and build my very own Linux distribution using the Linux From Scratch project. Spoiler alert: it was a wild ride! After plenty of hiccups, a few d...

For a long time, I had been toying with the idea of setting up my own blog. I imagined sharing my thoughts, ideas, experiences and making some my private notes helpful for someone else but I always...