The next step in the long line of things I've been doing to my HP ProLiant Gen8 Microserver was to give it some TV capability. Since moving house last year, the living room has been set up in such a way that I don't have access to an aerial port near the TV. Naturally, the idea of just buying a real...
For many years I happily made do with the 802.11n capability of my Sky Fibre router. It worked, and I was happy. That was until I bought a Chromecast and a Raspberry Pi 3. My wireless streaming activity skyrocketed and the router was unable to keep up, with its paltry 2.4GHz transmitter. In my house...
The Investigatory Powers Bill has now passed as law in the United Kingdom, meaning the UK Government has been provided with a wider reach and fewer restrictions over their ability to track the home internet usage of every British resident. Now is the time to start considering a more robust solutio...
SSH is one of those tools that once you learn you wonder how you ever lived without it. Today, we'll cover some tricks to pimp your SSH workflow using the ~/.ssh/config file.
SSH (Secure Socket sHell) provides a secure way to access another computer. The most common us...
One of the most popular pieces on this site was an article I wrote just over a year and a half ago on how to set up an affordable and small home server. It proved wildly popular, I think, because of the ProLiant's modest price point and ease of use. However, that was back in early 2015. We're now...
Any audiophile will attest to compiling albums well into the hundreds, or even thousands. When a music collection grows, it can become harder to keep it well managed.
The main problem with managing a music collection is, generally, each collector has their own way of archiving their music. We all...
With the recent announcement of the official docker package for raspberry pi the linuxserver.io team have stepped up production of docker images for the popular armhf platform.
At the time of writing we have over 30 images available covering different genres from well known download apps like s...
For a while now, LinuxServer has become a name in the Docker community. Combining ease-of-use with some of the most popular applications available for those with home servers. To date, we've had over 6 million combined pulls on our images and there is a level of pride we hold in what we have achieve...
We are ecstatic to announce that our docker images have been pulled over 6 million times! The time and effort gone into writing and maintaining our images has clearly paid off as we have seen a steady increase in usage of our images over the last year. While we have many different images and applica...