Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve finally got myself motivated to install Fedora Server 42 onto my mum’s old Intel NUC and I was quite surprised how well it is running. When it is setup it doesn’t have a GUI so the amount of resources, both memory as well as storage space, is kept to a minimum. I’ve transferred some files over the network and it was transferring via wifi to the server at around 70MBps which is pretty good for an old server. What I did do, when setting it up, was make use of webmin which made the whole experience a lot smoother. Yeah, I’m sure I could have set it up all via command line but I don’t feel motivated at this time of the night to flex my skills to an audience of just myself. The guide on the website where you download Webmin (link) and with a bit of trial and error everything started working as it should. There are a limited number of options for upgrading the internal drive itself although it would be tempting to make use of my external SSD drive, hook it up and then share the drive over the network.

I’ve organised the courier to pick up the computer to be shipped off – I’m in now hurry whether I should get a desktop computer given that my laptop is doing the job quite nicely – I might just end up waiting until next to see what happens. The reality is that I barely used the desktop when I had it so I’m having to justify purchasing something that I may on occasions used but probably not to its full potential unless I’m getting back into gaming or something that requires more ‘grunt’ that my laptop cannot provide.

On a side note: One of the first things I did was uninstall Microsoft Office including Outlook – no use having it installed when I’m never going to use it.