Yes. In general - it’s called live cd. Some distros ship with that in their installed image. {K,X,}ubuntu come to mind. Mint might do as well. You can boot into it and look around, see if basic stuff - network, audio, etc - works.

I’m a living proof you’re the opposite of right 😁

Is this at a webserver level?

I’ve only ever been told that perl is a write-only language :D

Gracias!

Danke!

What’s the pun I’m missing here?

Huh, TIL that’s still possible. Wasn’t in my case at the time.

I run my email server, but not at home. Running it at home is not all all more difficult, but it will only work for internal traffic and inbound from the internet. Residential IPs are simply blacklisted by ISP and as such - nothing will reach external recipients. Still useful, but is limited.

To have your smtp reach everyone globally you need to run it on a business IP. I use Linode, has worked very well since the setup in 2019, although they did get acquired by Akamai, which might become an issue at some point.

This is such an incredible write up of something I’ve never even considered to exist. Thank you!

I’d love to have things like that in a form of a post at !graybeard@lemmy.cafe

That plus pilots’ mics.

Thank you very much!

Wait, what? That’s so cool! Care to share somewhere I can start looking into this?

I don’t know the size in bytes, haven’t cared much about it for some time now. It also very much depends on the definition of minimal. My minimal != your minimal.

I’m referring to use flags, which allow me to not have a bunch of features I don’t use compiled to begin with. Less code - fewer headaches.

I run Gentoo.

It’s made my fundamentals stronger.

It allows me to run the minimal number of codepaths.

Every now and then it makes me happy. Sometimes proud of myself. All because I solved some problem that was helped by the mindset Gentoo had set up.

Network? That’s a small bit. DB is struggling with IO at times, but network usage is fairly low, at least on my end.

For those curious - it’s engine-x.

What I look like*.

Used systemd for years; realistically my first init.

Switched to Gentoo.

Switched to OpenRC.

Lost logs at work on a server.

Some small inconveniences show up on systemd.

Yea, systemd is not that great.

There are people saying they don’t want to care about an init system, but it’s the same attitude as of those who don’t care about what car they drive. Yes, it gets the job done, but that’s not good enough for me.

I want the job done properly.

Gentoo/Arch guy checking in. It’s more about having fewer codepaths to go wrong after some update. At least in my case.