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Last modified February 20, 2025

My configuration
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My hardware configuration

I have the following networked PCs:

- a Lenovo ThinkCenter M92p used as a server. It is called ultra on my network and runs Mageia 9. In the photo below you can see it on the edge next to the SFR box connected by optical fiber and the TP-link Archer C6 router which completes the miserable features of the box and which allows a good separation of the networks, all wavy. I boosted it with 16GB of RAM so that it can also serve as a server for my video surveillance system based on zoneminder .

- A PC ACER Predator G3-605 Intel Core i7-4790 processor 16GB RAM DD3, 256GB SSD disk, 1+4TB SATA disks called predator , it has Mageia 10 Cauldron. It is my kdenlive video editing station it is equipped with an Epson Perfection V30 scanner, it is also my multimedia storage PC with a total capacity of 24TB with its Terramaster disk extension (19TB on 5 disks), all of which can also be seen in the photo.

- A Dell Optiplex 7040 mini PC, called mafate , i5-6500T 4-core processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD , integrated Intel HD 530 graphics card which serves as my multimedia PC by accessing the predator storage server. It is connected to a sound bar, itself connected to the TV screen all via HDMI, I control it from a small wireless keyboard on the sofa. Under the photo below we can see it with the SFR TV box above and to the right of the box an HDMI splitter is an HDMI capture device connected via USB to mafate which records via an ffmpeg command .

- personally I use a lenovo thinkpad x270 with i5-7200U 7th generation processor, 8GB RAM, 250GB disk with Mageia 9 which is called cilaos

- my wife uses a Lenovo thinkpad X230 with i5-3360M processor clocked at 2.8Ghz, 4GB of RAM, 320GB disk with Mageia 9 which is called tetiaroa , I boosted it with an internal SSD disk. On the photo below we find the X230 on the left, the X270 on the right.

- In stock I also have the following PCs which I no longer use and which are gathering dust at the moment:

an ultra portable Lenovo thinkpad X220 core i5 duo processor clocked at 2.5Ghz, 4GB of RAM, 12.1" screen, 300GB disk with Mageia 9, it's called uapou
an ultra portable Lenovo thinkpad x200 named tahiti also with Mageia 9 which I no longer use and which is gathering dust for the moment
an ultra portable Lenovo IdeaPad 100S 11IBY installed with Mageia 9, named huahine which was used by my daughter for her studies and to take notes in lecture hall because it weighs less than a kilo while having an excellent autonomy. She also uses a Thinkpad T440p (i5-4300M 4th generation 2.6Ghz processor with 4 cores, 8 GB of RAM, 500 GB of hard drive) which also runs on Mageia 9

Ideapad 100S

Thinkpad T440p

x200

- I have a Canon Pixma TS705 network printer, therefore accessible via network to all PCs connected to the network (wired or wifi)

ultra has the following server services:

file servers with NFS ,
network authentication server with OpenLDAP with centralization of accounts (via NFS ),
mail server (with all the anti-spam and anti-virus paraphernalia )
video surveillance server

The server is permanently on.

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For saving and sharing my files, especially multimedia, I have a subscription with infomaniak and I use rclone as explained on this page .

predator has media file server service for my mafate PC , I turn it on occasionally.

The topology of my network is as follows: I have an SFR box and which is connected to a TP-Link Archer C6 router which distributes the wired network for fixed stations and laptops in wifi (in blue), the ultra server, the mafate and predator PCs are connected to an RJ45 wired network (network 1). The TV box is connected to the SFR box on a separate network via CPL (network 2). Note that an HDMI splitter is a capture device inserted between the sound bar and the TV which allows me to record the video stream coming from the BOX on the mafate PC via a USB connection, in fact I cannot take advantage of the HDMI ARC features but hey, you just have to choose between the two inputs on my sound bar: TV Box or mafate PC .

The RJ45 wired network is a real physical network with RJ45 sockets in the rooms and a patch panel in the garage at the electrical panel. I pulled cables using the conduits that were originally used to run telephone or coaxial cables for the TV antenna.

In the photo below we see a very classic TP-Link switch and just below another TP-Link switch which has RJ 45 POE sockets and to which 3 IP video surveillance cameras are connected for my video surveillance system .

For digital photography, I have a Nikon D5300 SLR. For videos I use my digital camera or a GoPro Hero 9 Black onboard camera adapted for the nautical spots that I practice. I edit my videos with kdenlive , you will find my videos on my youtube channel , here is an example.

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My software configuration

My PCs run Mageia 9. For a long time I used KDE, but the latest versions are getting really cumbersome, so I switched to XFCE

My screen under Mageia 9 of my thinkpad x270 cilaos

My screen of my workstation under Mageia 10 Cauldron of my Acer Predator

Mageia gives me satisfaction, all my hardware works, it is very stable. Although the graphical administration tools have made a lot of progress, I nevertheless continue to use them drop by drop being a fan of the command line and vi.

The tools I use

It is wrong to think that Linux is a system for tinkerers; it is also an environment where you can do everything from office work to video editing.
For office work (word processing, personal financial accounts) I use Open Office. In bulk, without being exhaustive, I also use:

- mail/news: Thunderbird,
- HTML page construction: BlueGriffon
- surf: Firefox
- libreoffice for office automation
- ftp: ncftp and gftp to update my site
- fetchmail/procmail: to retrieve mail
- roundcube mail as webmail
- spamassassin/clamav: to remove all spam and other anti viruses
- sendmail to send mail
- imap: (via dovecot) so that my mail clients on the network can retrieve mail
- vi: for all my administrator manipulations and also for my php pages!
- audacious, clementine, lollypop: for mp3 playback
- mplayer, vlc for video playback
- kodi: for the media center
- geeqie: to view a set of photos at a glance
- gimp: to manipulate photos
- apache+PHP+MariaDB to test the pages of my site at home
- SSH to connect from a client workstation to my linux server
- gphoto2, gtkam: to download and manage photos from my digital cameras
- kdenlive for video editing
- HandBrake to make a personal copy of DVD
- avidemux: to process film recordings from my box


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