@lohang that’s a very good point.

@lnxw48 There are some pretty good tutorials at using a custom distro/kernel on Linode. Basically you creat a small boot partition so the Linode tools are there and a large partition with your preferred distro/kernel.

@morph my favorite local coffee brew – “Grannie’s gone but the coffee’s on.” http://vox.a2c3.co/attachment/781

@morph “Damn fine coffee” —Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks

The cold pork in the fridge was wilting at the edges; it and I exchanged looks of mutual contempt, like two women wearing the same hat in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. —The Mortdecai Trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli

A loveable art dealer/thief, the stories are equal parts Wodehouse, John Mortimer, Tibor Fischer, & a soupçon of Ian Fleming

@lohang sure it’s firecrackers?

@theru right! I get enough new experiences with Arch.

@mk I can whip up a system on Arch, Gentoo, or a couple of BSD’s. Debian just makes no sense to me.

@theru that’s what I ended up doing, especially since these new server is me only and 1 domain only so I just did postfix/sasl/dovecot and will have mail delivered to the user account.

Also issues of MariaDB (my preference) vs MySQL.

Building my new server on Linode and have hit a conundrum. I’m most used to using Arch Linux, but I want to use iredmail, which doesn’t support Arch. It does support Gentoo and Ubuntu. Linode has an old Gentoo kernel available, but appears to be deprecating support for Gentoo. Ubuntu is my least favorite option.

Decisions…

@mcnalu angry with the world ;) Making a mimosa and reading The Mortdecai Trilogy to cool off.

How I feel right now http://vox.a2c3.co/attachment/779

TalkingParabola has been released, it’s a live ISO image adapted for blind and visually impaired users https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola#TalkingParabola #GNU #Linux

Enjoying an iced americano before making breakfast and then starting to make homemade dijon style mustard for Christmas gifts.

@chalkahlom and you have all that rendered goose fat to use for other cooking for a few months after…

@chalkahlom Snails, food, or both?

@lohang That’s often a good strategy.

@question you had me at iced coffee.