Laptop archeology – or – how to install NixOS 24.11 on a 25 year old laptop

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year I brought an old laptop to my home my grandfather once gave. It is a relict from roughly 1999, with which I’ve already played around some nine years ago.

Prior to 38C3 I had the idea to bring it to the congress so people could mess around with it. In the end, I was the one messing around with it, fighting to get some operating systems installed on this poor thing.

Hosting a Mail Server at Home

Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I’m using NixOS since over a year for most of my server stuff and I’m loving it. One of the missing services was my email setup, originally deployed on Debian 10, later upgraded to Debian 11. I followed a setup guide and was quite happy, tweaking it over the years to my needs. Roughly, the software stack consists of Postfix as the MTA (“SMTP server”), Dovecot as the MDA (“IMAP server”) and rspamd including its requirement, redis, for spam protection and SPF/DKIM/DMARC verification as well as DKIM signing for outgoing mail. I avoided a webmail service to keep things simple and I already use standard mail clients across my personal devices anyway.

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Laptop archeology – or – how to install NixOS 24.11 on a 25 year old laptop

Hosting a Mail Server at Home