I’ll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!
Anyways: I primarily use Gentoo Linux.
I have two headless servers: a Raspberry Pi 4B and a Oracle cloud VM (free tier). Both running OpenRC, and both were running mainline kernel with custom config (I recently switched the Pi to PiFoundation kernel due to some issues). The raspberry pi boots from SSD and has no sd card inserted.
Both servers were running musl libc instead of glibc for a while. This gave me a couple of random issues, but eventually I got tired and switched back to glibc.
I have a desktop running gentoo and a laptop running arch, but hoping to switch the laptop to gentoo soon.
Both are daily driving wayland (the desktop had nvidia card and used for gaming). The desktop is running a kernel with a minimal config that compiles in 2-3 minutes.
What’s your unusual setup like?
I’m running a distro named Navigatrix along with softplexer Muplex and chart plotting software called OpenCPN. I’m using two USB GPS pucks, and an RTL-SDR for VHF AIS transmissions. Muplex will take data inputs from all three NMEA protocols (onboard nav data from appliances/radios (I have Simrad & Icom products)), GPS data, AIS data and pipe it around to whatever laptop or tablet I have on hand, and can even use GPS data, over Bluetooth/wifi/cable from a phone as backup. All connected through a small GL pocket router.
I live off grid on a 29’ cruising sailboat, currently in Miami for Ultra (disappointing) making my way to Colombia.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I’ll pass this on to my friend who’s been at sea with his family for over 1 year.
He’ll have to compile Muplex from source as it’s not a part of Navigatrix, I found it via another marinized distro Marinux.