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Thomas Jager
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🧭 Start Here: Linux Server Logbook

Welcome to my personal devlog series.

A logbook of how I learn Linux by building and breaking things on my own server.
This is hands-on learning, and i love it.


💻 My Hardware

• CPU: Intel Core i5-7200U @ 2.5GHz (Turbo 3.11GHz)

• GPU: NVIDIA MX150, 2GB GDDR5

• RAM: Upgraded to 20GB DDR4

• Storage: 126GB SSD Sandisk

• Wi-Fi: 802.11ac

• Ports: Thunderbolt + standard I/O

• Current OC: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) / Space: fn 1,5Gb.

•Server name: "マッコウクジラ — makkō kujira - sperm whale"


📂 What is this logbook?

This is a collection of logs documenting:

• install and reinstall systems manually

• fight with wpa_supplicant and systemd masking

• configure static IPs and chase down DHCP demons

• run a fully terminal-based setup with no GUI

• plan to build a proper homelab and NAS — and more later


📌 How the logs are structured

Each post follows this format:

📅 Date: YYYY-MM-DD

🔧 Tools:

How It Started

(Short intro)

The Problem

(What went wrong)

The Fix

(How I solved it)

What I Learned

(Quick list)

✍ Personal Note:
(Optional reflection or joke)


🔗 Index of logs

  1. Log001 - 008

  2. Log009 - Debian 13

  3. Log010 - wpa_supplicant vs Network Manager

  4. Log011 - UFW, nginx and a dream

  5. Log012 - Docker, Apache, EC2 etc.

  6. Log013 - AWS, Debian 13, Fail2ban, Logrotate, Docker, AlmaLinux, Apache, AWS S3, CloudFront, AWS CLI

  7. Log014_CloudFlare_Zoho.mail_ec2.md

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🧷 How to keep this post “pinned”

Since dev.to doesn’t support pinned posts:

• This post includes the #start-here tag

• I’ll link back to it in each future log

• It’s also added to my profile bio

• You can bookmark it or follow the series tag

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