Why Run a Linux Server at Home: Cool things you can do with a Linux Server
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Larry Apolonio
Last year, there were a couple of presentations on DIY IoT projects that did not rely on a cloud service, but other than homeassistant, what other things can you do with a Linux Server at home? This presentation will show some cool things you can do with a Linux Server at home. 
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Honestly, that is a good drawing of a penguin
I was thinking the same , Tux would be proud 🐧
das y he doesn't have to say, "now I am not an artist..." =)
Important takeaway
First thing I noticed about the thumbnail. 🐧
It’s tux the Linux mascot
The thing about Larry's presentations, and I've known this for years, is that he'll start with beginner level explanations and by the end of the talk he's cranked it up to 11. Love it. Great presentation.
Thanks R.S This year I was trying to get a presentation that I could do quick, with the home quarantine I found myself with a bit more time. I was able to kickstart build a network with Linux servers, both Windows and Linux Desktops, and an AD server. I think I start with something basic and end up down a rabbit hole.
@@mall0w Yes, you did. Great video.
@@mall0w what's up larry , i'm actually so glad to find out that the actual larry everyone( the jokers tv show ) is looking after is an actual linux enthusiast
In an old PC I have at home I installed a vpn server. Now i can connect to my home network from anywhere. Even print stuff in my home printer when I'm outside at school. This has proven more convenient than I thought.
so how did you do that?
@@smomar5269 I followed a digital ocean tutorial 'How to Set Up an OpenVPN Server in Ubuntu 18.04'
@@glitchy_weasel thanks bro
@@smomar5269: These days, it's _much_ easier to use WireGuard and it doesn't require a static IP.
How does it work with a dynamic home ip?
Larry sincerely, you are the teacher of my dreams because you go from noob to pro in one session, and that is how everybody should teach stuff. Thank you.
Best I've seen, cant believe the thumbs downs. He talks DHCP and explains what it is, not just ramble on what it can do, or how to set it up. EXCELLENT!!
Right off the batt, Man, you had me grinning. So, now, I am even looking more forward to this video. Wow, you really know how to bring in the Audience, which is always hard for me to do.
This is GREAT! Thanks for this. It's made my day.
Thanks for the video ,sir! Its very kind of you to share this information. From a 1982 baby thats been dabbling since 1988, I appreciate it.
Timestamp guy, where are you?
A elegant presentation, rare thing, congratulations.
Very good video, your examples are amazing. The more I know about networking, Linux, software, the more I want to dabble in electronics to expand into the 'real' world if you catch my drift.
Very good presentation, I am also figuring out my own personal home server and you certainly gave me some new ideas
Thank you for the work you did and for sharing this information
Beauty, easy to follow, great ideas for practical applications. Thanks
Great presentation. Well done, sir.
Great presentation Larry, thanks for taking the time to do this. I use mine for SSH, SSH tunneling as a poor man's VPN, a git server for home and work programming, and then as a backup server for my house boxen. Thanks for the ideas...
Thanks Steve, one of my alternate presentations was how to access a Linux box for management from Windows, putty with ssh was there, but I thought about getting a GUI through the ssh interface, any web Interface was easy by tunneling 80, 443,9090 , 10000 etc. But there was also X11 tunneling and X2GO. I have a bunch of videos I never posted anywhere and this was one of them
@@mall0w would love to learn how to do these things. Is there any video or resources you can link?
you had me at linux server ❤️
Great presentation, appreciate your presence. Would be great if you did a whole talk just on #5 - self-hosting at home.
Very cool. Definitely getting one now
I know micro-controller, circuits, board layout and C programming will but I want to set up a server to learn networks. Networks have always been a 'black box' to me. Very good presentation just what I was looking for. Thanks
bro thanks so much, you actually made soft soft easy to understand
You are so Zen. You are the Tech Mooji. Thank you for the enlightenment!
We love you Larry! Keep slayin boii
Highly informative!
Good info! Thanks for sharing.
I watched this whole video. And, I really like this guy's presentation. This guy (Larry Apolonio) really did a good job. I wish I had a Linux group around me to attend where I could learn from gurus like this. I'm from the WIndows world and trying to be able to learn & come into the Linux world. Thanks for sharing what you know.
As a guy who was once in your shoes, all I can say is this:
We Linux users are few and far between, but we're a very welcoming family, and will adopt anyone. If you need help on ANYTHING, there are more IRC rooms, subreddits, forums, online aritcles, wikis, and just overall nice people than you can shake a stick at.
We're a little hard to find, but we're there.
If you wanna learn Linux fast and in depth you should go the Arch way. Start with Manjaro and use that splendid Archwiki. It is by far the best documented Linux family in existence. It's official repo's are in the normal range but once you open up the AUR the size is almost equal to Debian which has the most in the official repo's. There is a wee bit of a downside because it is so well documented and that is that the Arch community is rather stiff and will direct noobs directly back to the wiki. Therefor you will most probably get a link to your problem on the wiki and no personal assistance. They will get more open once you start to contribute to the community. Arch users expect that you understand how to use Linux. Luckily there is that outstanding wiki.
me, too, but I think I'd benefit as much from the mindset Linux users have - the social aspect, meeting free-thinkers. I even want to join a Linux group for dating reasons - to meet a guy.
@@ForOdinAndAsgard I have found the Arch community the least welcoming of any. Perhaps there are simply more younger members who think it is cool to be assholes.
@@genkiferal7178 Just RTFM.
Great stuff already, got some good app/program tips
Thank you. TNice tutorials is really helpful. Much respect
Tks for tips Larry.
on the top shelves of the desk behind me is an elderly Toshiba laptop, which operates as a name-server (caches outbound lookups also), web-server, email-server (SMTP/POP3), file-server (SMB), logs reading from a local weather station (HTTP -> CSV -> SQL) and could also be a transproxy. it also permits me (via OpenSSH and in the case of my wife’s Windows-10 notebook, RDesktop) to remote-manage/repair/whatever home-LAN workstations.
currently based on Xubuntu 20.04, it has sailed through dist-upgrades flawlessly, includes built-in UPS.
this is great info, god bless you man
I really enjoyed this. I have been working for years to put together a home network in which a modem plugs into my big fancy gaming desktop, which functions as a wireless router and NAS for everything else. I've been asked repeatedly "Why go to all that trouble instead of just buying these 5 dongles and stringing them all together?" Well, I HAVE done that, and have that network topology right now. It is needlessly complicated, but worse, it is complicated by the fact that most hardware companies are desperately trying to sell subscriptions rather than hardware. Case in point, my NAS, a WD Access EX2, is only accessible on Windows via WD's proprietary ever since Microsoft changed their network filesharing protocol. WD no longer offers WD Access for download. If I lose my saved copy of the WD Access installer, I lose access to the stuff on my NAS. There are plenty of other , but this is particularly egregious one.
So when you offer information like this, you are giving less technical people like me access to the sort of simple, effective home topology that should've been common for 15 years. You have my heartfelt thanks.
Thanks alot. I lost internet but when I got connected again I looked through the Linux feed until I found this
Awesome presentation, very good content. But I can't shake the feeling that I'm watching an early 2000 infomational video
This is fantastic
much love fellow geek, foss for life
And now I’m set on getting a Linux server :)
Thank you Larry for sharing. I believe your generosity in posting this video, has become a catalyst for inspiring me to learn Linux Network Engineering. I wish you, your family, friends, and colleagues, safety, health, & peace, during these difficult Pandemic times. Your work has the power to change lives. With admiration & thanks, phil
P.S. What Linux Distro do u recommend for an aspiring Linux engineer to learn? What is the most popular? CentOS? Thx much brother.
Good presentation.
nice tuto Thank you!
Nagios, great choice.
Fantastic audio
Great video! I have Linux server setup at home as well!
Hey I just subscribed to your channel. I agree with you man. This is a good presentation.
I like Larry.
I made my old computer a NAS server. I don't like for my server to be powered on when I am not at home so I activated the power on lan feature on the motherboard and I use a Raspberry PI 4 with OpenVPN to connect to it when ever I want ex. from work and wake up my server and watch my favorite TV shows :D The control that I have is freakin' amazing! I am not an expert at computers at all... and I learned a lot of stuff like key ssh authentication, hdd raid backups etc.
I just discovered your channel and it's awesome, i like the thing you spoke about the sensors, do you have any videos about how to set that up?
Greetings from a Windows Server 2019 user that also has it's Ubuntu Server 20.04 running :)
thank you :D
Great video presentation, im glad to see diversity in tech. im planning to move to Seattle soon from Louisiana and i just subscribed.
I watch a few vids on different distros of linux and youtube thinks I am ready for This!!
You are ready for this, my dude. 👍
Linux sounds pretty cool I'm a Windows user though only have 1X was more compatible with Windows programs and I knew how to code that would be nice if I knew how to end but I'm going to wait until it's more compatible things then I'll make you switching and attempt to learn about all these cool things and how open-source is a good thing
Nicely done. I use Linux mint at home. Which by the way is just south of you.Hi from Kent Wa
Oh yeah. I love my home Linux server.
I have a git server ( with a CI/CD runner ), docker repository, Plex server, and multiple game servers all on the same machine. Of course I don't run all at the same time, but it's the best utility machine I have. And it's made from an old gaming machine :)
Nice video!
I made a very small, but yet powerful, home server from a Gigabyte BRIX Ultra compact with a Gen8 i3, 8GB RAM, a 120GB SSD for OS and a external 4TB USB3 disk for storage. Works GREAT. Have it hardwired directly to my WiFI router. I use it mainly for media and cloud. I run NextCloud on it which is great. I want 100% control of my information, so don't like using the big companies for cloud, such as Google, OneDrive, DropBox....
I also use NextCloud together with Joplin for notes, Joplin has clients for all platforms such as Windows, Linux, Android .....
So, mainly, I use NextCloud, Joplin and PLEX for Media.
Ahh, this server has also removed my need of doing security backups. NextCloud has a "sync client", so I auto-sync important folders between my server and 2 desktops (in different locations). So, should anything happen to my server, or any of my desktops, I have the important info stored on 2 other locations. And, all this copying of info is done automatically.
Having 100% control of your own information is a great feeling :-)
Ahh, maybe I should add that I run Linux Mint Mate (yes desktop version) on my server because at times, I like the graphical interface. I use X2GO (esy to install and secure since all comm is over SSH) to access the desktop remotely from anywhere.
I think it's best to use what you're used to with respect to OS of the server. For example, I am used to Gentoo, so I felt comfortable installing Gentoo on a server.
great work...I have Open Suse and Mandrake 6 with a whole package,so I am torn what to start with...
I do have one in my home... I give processing power to who people don't have good processing power for free
I also do run a bind server.. but dhcp, router itself if good enough..
I do also have a smtp server postgress
i dropped media server because of netflix and amazon prime and all drm crap...
A good use for running Linux-based DHCP and DNS is when you want to enable forwarding DNS lookups for a specific domain/SOA to another DNS server, e.g. with a site-to-site VPN. Many/most consumer routers don't support that with standard firmware.
I'm not sure, but you might be able to do that with OpenWRT.
He and the penguin kinda look alike . Nice video ❣💯
smooth voice as an old thinkpad keyboard
0:00 First song of video:
tomppabeats - far away
I am behind college wifi, so I can't port forward my servers when I want to play with friends. I use an aws instance with ubuntu server to run the servers which is fantastic because they're always up and they're fast for everyone, no matter how bad my connection is
The other way around, install Linux and a Windows VM if needed ;)
i am a mac user, but researching linux migration. as i understand it, there are several advantages to running Windows in a container such as Docker as opposed to a VM; 1, it's easier and faster to set up, 2 it is less computer resource intensive as it shares resources, 3 it is as secure if configured with security in mind. i see Larry is suggesting VMware 3:12, so my questions are, is there such thing as server container virtualization and would that be faster, easier to set up and use less resources than VMware server virtualization?
@@iflnr978 running windows as a container on a linux is an issue as it stands. Alot of the weight savings for a container vs a vm is off loading the kernel and sometimes system libraries to the base os, but since windows's kernel is not the same as linuxs and not FOSS it cannot just be included and used like that.
@@Waitwhat469 I am almost a noob, but was able to set up and use windows 10 VM (Oracle) on my Debian 10 with no problems and even used it briefly for work as a call center operator. Because I use workspaces on Debian, I was able to use Windows VM on one workspace and easily switch to another workspace if I needed my Linux stuff (files, apps, browsers). It took a while to figure things out, but I did it and am a 50 year old female with no formal tech training.
@@genkiferal7178 yeah that is probably the most straightforward setup
another option is looking glass looking-glass.io/
but both of these are virtual machine based solutions and the lighter weight container solution that @iflnr97 mentioned
More info found here:
www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/containers-vs-vms
Which Linux server distribution would you recommend for ip camera security system, nas storage for backup on all devices in home, and a plex media server
Hey Larry, I found your video while doing some Home Server research. Very good information. Do you care to recommend a distro for such a server or expand on this series. I have a dual core 5 series Intel Nuc laying around and I want to get some use out of it. I’d like to go dual purpose of entertainment, file hosting, while learning cloud computing and docker etc.
Great Content, subbed
I was considering linux server. But how well does it act as the domain controller?
And how do I go about distributing GPO's over the network to the workstations?
I run it on Raspberry Pi too, and it runs all time for many years.
Same and my Pi is solar powered
@@idlisambar whoa that is really cool. Do you mind sharing some info about your setup?
@@idlisambar omg, THANK YOU for saying that. One day I'd like to move offgrid, but was worried about power for a server.
Question, is a better option to only have a dedicated machine with one Linux distro or using something like proxmox to have multiple services executing in isolation?
I run a ZeroNet site called Syncronite. I put the cron in it. ;)
Holy crap im soaking uo your knowledge
Kids: is that club penguin?
Virtual Box is great. You don't have to mess with licenses for VMWare products.
Sooo trueeee
Little trick:
If you want to use PiHole DNS Server connected to your smartphone, even if you are using mobile data connection, just setup OpenVPN and this will solve your little problem ;)
The VPN connection also allows you to manage the PiHole directly from your phone, even if you're connected to mobile data.
PiHole and OpenVPN are running on a Raspberry Pi 3 or even an old Dell dual core 64bit PC without any problems.
What version of linux server are you running?
I am building a server now. How would you setup the drives? Looking a raid 5 one hot spare. raid 6 no spare. ext4 or btrfs. Saving old videos of wife who died. About to try moving services like zoneminder to docker.
thanks for the video enjoyed it even though its acronym speak but thats computers for ya .. as a newish linux user but user since dos pre 6.1 both ms ans ibm... im not new to this just the appnames and input styles are different mostly .im using kali so my end goals are obvious lol .my issue seems to be samba configuration and its interaction with win 10 i can unc to the resource but nothing will show in either network neighbourhood and then theres account and password lol so i wouls love an indepth samba /win10 review specifaclly with kali hosts and a pxe boot server with multiple os choice would also be nice my eventual goal is pxe boot server /nas /xmbc server possibly firewall or ids up to 5 laptops and 5 desktops running xp ubuntu win 10 and kali the os es on the bootserver would need x86 and 64 versions the machines for traffic and general entertainment access xmbc and stream my content to myself and run distributed load finding a linux guru in these times is difficult so im trying a new approach care to be a virtual guru?
Which Linux server distro would you recommend for beginners looking to create a storage server? I saw in the video you were using CentOS.
It depends what you mean by "storage" as in are you just using the (approximately) 6 sata ports on a mboard (as per btrfs/ZFS), or are you installing some RAID (or similar HBA) expansion card to add more HDDs? Because if you are adding any such hardware you will encounter driver problems and almost everybody will tell you to run ubuntu because you are a newbie. Yet, with no such fancy hardware, you would run debian. The second hardware question is if you intend to put a fast ethernet card in (such as a i350t4 chipset) or just use whatever cheap ethernet is on the motherboard. Again, adding hardware means having something like ubuntu makes it easier for you (although fedora has plenty old drivers too if you like tinkering). Otherwise, you would go over to debian. Just be careful of what motherboard you have because some refuse to work with linux on account of IOMMU problems.
The three main distros (from which many other distros are made) are slackware, debian and fedora (centos). Regarding slackware, it uses a bootloader called lilo instead of Grub. If you plan to use btrfs (or zfs) you'll not want lilo.
Basically I reckon what many people in your position would do, if they just wanted a simple btrfs (or zfs) server is run debian if they want it all foss for btrfs, or they would run ubuntu for zfs. As a beginner using btrfs or zfs, find a motherboard with 6 to 8 sata ports (e.g. some that take a fx8350 would do). If you have 8 sata ports, use two for index HDDs, and the other 6 as the data in the array. have at least 1GB RAM per TB HDD space. So for 6 of 2TB HDD (i.e. 12TB), have at 12GB RAM (or 16Gb to be safe) at least. Be honest with yourself if you desire to use a VM. an FX8350 can give you some Virtual Machines with mediocre performance. 32GB RAM means you have wiggle room for a VM here and there. A fairly old Intel xeon (or i9) would be better performance. A xeon means you can use ECC registered RAM. You probably won't need it, but then again maybe get such a registered RAM machine if you want to avoid haters in the comments nagging you. A boot device (if you are running VMs) could be a ssd or tantamount such as an nvme booting off the pci-e 4x slot gen2. So that way a VM won't feel so "laggy" compared to your storage HDDs.
If you want the storage server to play HTPC video, stick in a rx570 graphics card because the power consumption is low, and yet it is reasonably powerful. But you'd need to bump up your 500watt corsair bronze80rated PSU to say over 700watt or more for the HDDs. Or if you only want storage, just use some old low power card with over 8MB RAM, (or even a hd6450 dx11 card).
Got to know the intro music
I just installed Linux server on a Pi zero to minimize desktop overhead. video in, gstreamer/tcp out.
I guess you leave it on 24/7? How many watts is it? Does it draw less electricity than a 1500 to 1700 watt hair dryer or space heater? Can you turn it off at night without problems? I want to start with a Pi for a server for personal use and then, after learning enough, set up a server for my own small home business. I use Debian and prefer to use Debian on a Pi, too.
Asterisk !! ;)
Asterisk or FlexiSIP
Hey boss, what do you reccomend for just blocking some websites at home? I am not too tech savvy. I want to ock youtube and roblox during the day so kids do their remote work. Thanks.
What do I do with my 8GBs of RAM in my Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu Server?
install or dualboot linux, install nodejs, now you can develop REST APIs, mobile apps, crossplatform apps or even IOT with Node-RED...and much more
Those automated bots scanners will jump on you like flies on poop :D I hate them so much ... T_T
When you join AD with a linuxbox how do you get sudo to work? I've been able to join AD with CentOS box using realmd and am able to login with AD account but i can't get sudo to work. Whenever i use sudo it doesn't even ask for password and just try 3 times with a fail. Any tips would be very appreciated
What I've seen is creating an admin group and adding that to your sudoers file. Then AD can manage whom is in the group, and everyone in the group has certain sudo privileges.
I may be wrong asking this question... should you install Linux Server then instead of Linux Desktop of any distro? We know the Server one has no graphics.
Linux Server is optimized for servers so the answer is no -__-
Small cannot hold my 12 drives 60 Tb raid 10 array so I have a tower but yeah Linux as a server is great. I have three workstations with it at home and I stream my games and media from the server. It also runs my email, several websites and a closed Minecraft Java server for my children and their friends. Over 100 active members in total and growing in size like a cabbage. What started out as a few Mb on an old rig is now over 7 Tb with the rollbacks on a state of the art self build server. In the worst case I can rollback half a year as I keep 1 for every month over that time and the last 2 months we currently are in a rollback every two weeks as the last week we are in gets 1 a day. The server is up for 8 years now and I had some grieving and duping but on average it is going quite well. In all that time I only had to intervene seriously for 3 times. In all other cases the kids solved it themselves. Yeah really I build my first server for Minecraft specifically but I soon learned the other benefits of it and have been enjoying them ever since.
Todays Theme is BILL AND TED
I have Linux on everything and a server. I switched from Windows because I found myself always wasting time reinstalling it. I quit Windows when Win 7 arrived.
Yeah, seems like the solution for 90% of windows issues is a clean install....compare that to linux, where you search an issue and find a solution 9 times out of 10... sometimes the solution may be a pain, but better than a clean install...
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And party on, dudes!
For those of you who want youtube-dl it's removed on GitHub, BUT there's a way to download it, go to your terminal and type "pip install youtube-dl" it will install it for you. Enjoy
Why the thumbs down probably lot of haters here
Raspberry pi 4 new release 64bit and 8GB DDR4 RAM. GOOD ENTRY WORKSTATION OR SERVER..
Even 4GB of RAM is useful on a Pi.
If it had lower price it would be alluring.
I still recommend to check out SoC like N3150 first. x86 has so much less limits..
This is what I may start with as the price may be under $100 for all of the components. What is the power costs a month or a year? I think setting up a Pi may be a good way for me to learn how to use a server. I rent, have 2 PCs already, often use a space heater, so am worried about electricity - costs, number of available outlets, not shorting out a circuit. In 3 rooms/houses, using a space heater and a hair dryer on the same circuit could make electricity turn off and it pissed off landlord and roommates.
Larry, How can I reach you? I can call USA/Canada free. Also have email.
Hi Larry , How to put a homemade linux server on the internet?
Try to google port forwarding
If you're the type that needs a practical solution to be motivated build a GNU/Linux router with traffic shaping to prioritize your gaming over your family's surfing. Netduma routers for gamers cost $200 in comparison.
Larry, you need to get a lapel mic. The sound will be so much better dude.
Yeah, I'm heard of hearing and could barely make out what he was saying. I really had to crank my sound system to follow everything he said.