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Linux Mint Unattended Installation

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Originally published on LinkedIn on 2025-12-22.

An Article about Rubenshof - Linux Mint Unattended Installer

Every year we set up some devices for our students at school. This year we had the situation of delayed deliveries, because a donation of notebooks took longer than expected. So we have to get faster with setting the devices up. I took this challenge and created a unattended Workstation setup for our school.

IT Lab for Village School

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A small village school needs an IT infrastructure, and the setup should be done with the school’s youth. It should be fun and relaxed. Anyone who wants to participate can and may be involved. Digital independence starts with the selection of software and components. In our case, we received hardware from a former Austrian startup.

In this case, servers and network hardware as well as racks. One part of the learning will be that these servers consume energy, and we will actively measure and address this topic to optimize it.

Virtualized School IT Lab

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Originally published on LinkedIn on 2025-01-19.

This Lab environment was created for a showcase at a local school. The school, a small community-driven institution based on Montessori principles, serves approximately 70 children and teachers. Open Source and Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) are valued by some of the teaching staff, and they requested assistance with certain aspects of the school’s infrastructure. Considering this preference, a cloud solution was deemed unsuitable.

Use the power of automation

Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Originally published on LinkedIn on 2020-05-01.

I really like to automate things. So I also automate the creation and provision of base images for a datacenter environment.

There are some tools which solve this. In my case I prefer packer.io.

Why? Because it is opensource, supports a lot of different technologies, runs on different platforms and so on and so on. And it is simple and lightweight.

So with packer you can, build and provision images in cloud environments but also local with kvm, virtualbox or even hyper-v.

Get Fibre Channel HBA adapter metrics

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Originally published on LinkedIn on 2020-03-30.

Since I deal with Fibre Channel, I have to deal with new tools as well. Today for example we had some issues on a Linux Server with Fibre Channel HBA setup. In fiber optic network you are looking for Rx/Tx power metrics, which I also get from the SAN switches. But to detect issues it’s good to see the RX/TX power also from the host side. The Linux support inside the company told me, that they can’t find metrics inside the system. So I tried to get some more knowledge about that topic.