This week Steve and Noah give you tips on hosting your first home server. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Minimum Viable Battle Station Pelican 1620 Cases XREAL Air 2 (https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-air-2) Ergonomics 09:52 Home Server Questions - Dan Noah's first homelab Pick an OS with low churn, long term OS Generational upgrades Experiment in VMs Starting with a VM host Starting with a file server Don't put 30 drives in one box Noah's vs Steve's approach Do it, Document it, Blow it away, Do it again Know the thing before you automate Low level tech roles being handed to other business people Playbooks Ansible Steve's OpenAudible-TO-AudioBookShelf (https://github.com/stratus-ss/OpenAudible-To-AudioBookShelf) 48:06 Kubernetes - Jeremy Kube Dev Lab (https://www.kubedevlab.com/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-cluster/) Steve's K8s Labs (https://github.com/stratus-ss/k8s-labs) 50:32 News Wire Calibre 8.0 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/seventeen) Linux 6.14 - lkml.org (https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/3/24/797) Gnome 48 - gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/48/) Blender 4.4 - blender.org (https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/) Zulip 10 - zulip.com (https://blog.zulip.com/2025/03/20/zulip-10-0-released/) EndeavorOS Mercury Neo - endeavouros.com (https://endeavouros.com/news/mercury-neo-with-linux-6-13-7-and-arch-mirror-ranking-bug-fix/) Finnis 125 - finnix.org (https://blog.finnix.org/2023/03/28/finnix-125-released/) Serpent OS Rebranded to AerynOS - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/02/before-it-even-gets-a-stable-release-serpent-os-changes-its-name-to-aerynos/) Rocky Linux Security - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/03/rocky-linux-from-ciq-hardened-takes-enterprise-linux-security-to-the-next-level/) Chimera Linux Drops RISC-V - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/chimera_linux_riscv/) Albabat Ransomware - infosecurity-magazine.com (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/albabat-ransomware-linux-macos/) Hornet Security Module - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Hornet-Linux-LSM) 3 AI Projects Donated to Linux Foundation - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/ibm-to-donate-three-ai-related-projects-to-the-cncf/) Trend Micro Open Source - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trend-micro-to-open-source-ai-model-and-agent-to-drive-the-future-of-agentic-cybersecurity-302405393.html) Hugging Face Blueprint - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-submits-open-source-blueprint-challenging-big-tech-in-white-house-ai-policy-fight/) AlexNet Open Source - spectrum.ieee.org (https://spectrum.ieee.org/alexnet-source-code) Open Source Worth 8.8 Trillion - heise.de (https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html) hbs.edu (https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf#page=31.22) 52:15 Private Search Engine? - Atypical Kernel SearXNG (https://docs.searxng.org/) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/434) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
