Linux on InternetException

Bonding Network interfaces in Debian Forky

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:18:00 +0200

I am experimenting lately on with Nanobot and running self hosted language models on Desktop Framework.

I was trying to run lately Qwen 3.5 397B model on this small PC and it was a bit hard because I just do not have enough disk space on it. I bought just small NVMe SSD disk. With current prices, I planned to use disk space on other server I have at my hope as storage

Switching my AI assistant OS to Ubuntu

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:38:31 +0100

I did make a mistake trying to run a vLLM server on Debian. I theory everything should be OK: Debian is stable, have docker, docker have images for vLLM so I should be able to run all the models on docker on Debian. Also it should not really matter what distro is as long as it have new kernel and docker works. That in theory. I practice I could not force some models to run and Qwen 3 even if it was capable enough it felt limiting at times. For example I was unable to force it to work in agentic loops. I am not sure what was the problem, probably some configuration issue that I am still unable to understand and fix. Still that was just a simple problem that required me to give my assistant some nudge with another prompt. It was not as bad another issue though.

Moving /boot partition

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:55:26 +0100

For a while I had a problem with my boot partition being too small. It was fine for one kernel image but not for two. So whenever kernel was updated it was failing because of lack of space. Five years ago 500MB was enough but not nowadays.

Today I decided to finally fix that.

First, I did created new LVM volume for /boot:

sudo lvcreate -L 1G -n boot root-vg

Disable Xunit Test on specific OS

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 22:51:15 +0200

Lately I was having a problem with some of my tests causing problems for other developers on the project I am working on. They were using Windows for their development while I am using Debian for my work. The application that was being tested was not designed for non Unix system - now rarely anybody is hosting they production code on Windows Server - everybody is using Unix for .net.

Convert LVM logical volume Raid 10 to Raid 5

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:28:48 +0200

Two weeks ago I was running out of space on my main raid matrix on my server. Server was configured and assembled few years back, and at that time I had about 700GB of data there so having RAID 10 of 4 1TB disks (that account for about 1,7TB of actual space for data) was enough. Especially when you count in a price of 2TB (or 4TB) NVME M2 disk back then.

No Display Manager in Debian Trixie

Thu, 15 May 2025 10:47:46 +0200

Lately I decided to try Podman Quadlets. It seemed to be really interesting way to achieve similar results as with Docker and Compose, but it have nicer integration with the system (i.e. ability to see container in Cockpit along with other systemd services, or triggering container by socket, so less frequently used containers won’t be running all the time).

Everything went fine except for unavailability of buildah package in Debian stable apt channel (or the version that were needed for podman at least). Quick search on the internet and I found the answer is to reference this specific package from the testing channel of apt.