Booting Linux off of Google Drive(ersei.net)

396 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 160 comments

A blog post describing how the author got Linux to boot with its root filesystem mounted from Google Drive via FUSE.

Booting Sun Sparc Servers(sidneys1.com)

50 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 20 comments

PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption(hajo.me)

13 points by fxtentacle 6 months ago | 1 comments

Learning to Boot from PXE(blog.imraniqbal.org)

77 points by speckx 11 months ago | 33 comments

Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air(blog.brixit.nl)

12 points by lukastyrychtr 1 year ago | 6 comments

I found the music I love on the internet(coryd.dev)

36 points by cdme 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel(0xkato.xyz)

428 points by 0xkato 1 year ago | 84 comments

A blog post explaining the Linux boot process step by step, from pressing the power button through firmware and bootloader to the first C code in the kernel.

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)(blog.lizzie.io)

125 points by mkornaukhov 21 days ago | 30 comments

A 2016 blog post walking through a minimal Linux container implementation in C, covering namespaces, capabilities, mounts and other isolation mechanisms.

When the machine boots but the reply disappears(mainbrella.com)

4 points by cs1996 19 days ago | 3 comments

Mainbrella engineering blog post on designing its backend so retries are safe when a Linux machine is created but the reply to the client is lost.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)(devquasar.com)

362 points by networked 1 month ago | 106 comments

A blog post about using the AMD BC-250, a repurposed mining board, as a roughly $60 gaming PC; the page returned a resource limit error.