March 31, 2025
For a while now, I’ve been looking into optimizing and reorganizing some of the infrastructure that powers my self-hosting services.
After evaluating a few alternatives, Scaleway’s Dedibox lineup caught my attention: it is a European company with good hardware and decent pricing.
However, as with every good solution, it is not perfect.
Scaleway does not provide Fedora as an OS option for their Dedibox machines.
They offer a decent selection, including Rocky Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu — but no Fedora.
Now, if you know me, you know that Fedora is not just my distro of choice — it’s the one I trust for both personal and professional projects.
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January 31, 2025
The next few days are shaping up to be packed with open-source goodness!
I’ll be heading to CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and CfgMgmtCamp, three of the best events in the ecosystem.
These conferences always include a great mix of technical talks, hallway conversations, and spontaneous meetups with friends—both old and new.
If you’re around, let’s catch up!
CentOS Connect (Brussels, January 31)
Although the event run yesterday and today, I’ll only be able to attend today.
CentOS Connect is a small but incredibly valuable event where the wider CentOS community (Fedora, CentOS, and all the Enterprise Linux distros) meets to discuss the space’s present and future.
It’s a great opportunity to meet contributors, learn about upcoming changes, and exchange ideas with people who shape the CentOS ecosystem.
I really like this event because its atmosphere is similar to Flock: very casual and more like a friends’ gathering than a conference.
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October 31, 2024
We have had Nebula VPN within the Fedora repositories for a couple of years.
A couple of months ago, I changed the default systemd service unit.
More specifically, this is the change:
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/nebula -config /etc/nebula/config.yml
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/nebula -config /etc/nebula
Although the change is only a few characters, this change allows for a much more flexible use of Nebula.
Before this change, the configuration could only be placed in the config.yaml file.
After this change, all YAML files in the folders will be read, merged, and used as configuration.
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October 26, 2024 - Milano, IT
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October 19, 2023
Over the last few years, I’ve moved many of my systems to Immutable versions of Fedora.
One of the last systems still missing was my Hetzner Dedicated server.
The blocking part for me was that Hetzner is not offering any Fedora or Immutable options.
However, Hetzner provides the Rescue System, which is a Debian system, so it is possible to leverage it!
After rebooting in Rescue mode:
Go to Hetzner Robot.
Select the proper server.
Go to the “Rescue” tab.
Click “Activate rescue system” after properly selecting the Public Key and keyboard layout.
You can now reboot the machine, and after it boots back up, you can log in to the Rescue System.
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May 29, 2023
Recently, I was looking for a couple of Single Board Computers (SBCs) for a project I’m working on.
Given the characteristics I was looking for, there were not many options; in the end, I opted for the ROCKPro64 by Pine64.
Once I received the SBC, I immediately tried to put Fedora on it.
The process proved slightly more complex than I was expecting since I assumed that U-Boot (or some other boot loader) was already present on the board.
Turns out, it is not!
So, the first step became installing U-Boot.
An aspect I really like about the ROCKPro64 is that it has 128Mb of Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash memory.
I appreciate this fact because it allows me to install U-Boot there and then a standard OS on another storage device.
Speaking of other storage devices, the ROCKPro64 features both an optional eMMC and the mSD Card slot.
The process turned out more complex than I initially thought since my goal was to use Fedora on the eMMC, but I forgot to get the eMMC USB adapter, so I had to leverage the mSD Card as well.
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April 18, 2023
With Fedora 38 officially released, Sericea and Sway Spin have also been officially released!
In the last month, I’ve been working on those variants’ presence on the Fedora website.
Now both variants have their page on the Fedora Website respectively at Sericea and Sway Spin.
If you have any questions, reach the Sway SIG in the following ways:
I hope many of you will find these valuable improvements to Fedora as much as I do.
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March 24, 2023
The Fedora Project released Fedora 38 beta images.
The Fedora Sway Spin and the Fedora Sericea ones are in the long list of released images!
This is a critical point in the release of those Fedora artifacts based on Sway since it is the first time it has been possible to test them for the wider public.
Although the Fedora Project has been creating Sway artifacts for a couple of months, those were based on Rawhide, which is “a not always stable” version of Fedora, since it tracks far in the future (4-10 months) versions of Fedora.
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March 6, 2023
I bought a MACCHIATObin Single Shot a few months ago with the idea of creating a NAS out of it.
The results have been very good and, to begin in an easy way, I decided to install Fedora 37 Server Edition.
Now that I’ve decided exactly what I want out of it, I reinstalled Fedora and started from scratch with exactly what I wanted.
I decided to install Fedora 37 IoT, which is an rpm-ostree based release.
To create the installation media, I leveraged arm-image-installer.
Overall everything went well, and the system booted successfully, although I wasn’t sure at first due to an issue with my DHCP server configuration.
Therefore I decided to connect to the board serial port and see if the boot was successful.
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