Please allow me to share a little bit too much before going to the point of the post.

Last November I decided to enroll in a course to get official recognition of something I’ve been doing for the last twenty years, which is to put together and install computers. The course is Computer Hardware and Repair/Fault Diagnosis (loose translation)

I learned the hard way, by myself, making mistakes and taking apart old machines and trying to revive hardware I was constantly told it was useless and/or obsolete. Linux was a great part of this. I’m an obnoxious FOSS/Linux crusader and I’m not ashamed.

In order to finish a course where I gained absolutely zero new knowledge and was taken as non-serious for stating I do not use anything but Linux for my daily computer needs I now have to, with no relation whatsoever and classes on it, design on paper a computer network.

Because I’m petty, I’d like to design it completely around Linux and FOSS solutions. Just to mess with the people that have even imposed I have to write the assigment in Word, with Arial font.

Please, point me towards some sources I can use. Nothing too in depth is necessary.

  • Ashley@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Couple things:

    Maybe opnsense over pfsense, pfsense people aren’t nice Proxmox is great but consider running docker in an lxc container as well

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      While I’m morally in the opnsense camp I know pfsense has more third party packages available.
      Running docker in an lxc sounds interesting, I’m a bit old school and enjoy the isolation that a true vm gives you.