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Some questions regarding slack15 as a server on trashcan Mac - dual NIC and amdgpu
Hello ��
I have repurposed my old 2013 Mac Pro -12c/24t Xeon/64gb/1tb- (trash can) to a mini home server of sorts for a couple different things, mainly plexmediaserver, docker for Pi-hole and homebridge, a public facing file server and a couple other things. Would love to hear out any suggestions to simplify or improve my options. Was just going to read through aliens’ docker blog posts and learn as I go. I’d like to get ssh and xrdp set up as well on the machine with a wm such as enlightenment, instead of a de. Essentially the end goal is to plug this thing in and never touch it except for ssh and occasional updates after initial setup.
In reading some “minimalist” installs of Slackware on the forum, but it’s been a common consensus that the extras installed does not affect processes or resources and is safe to just leave the extra packages. Is this still the case?
I have plex running exactly how I want in Ubuntu on a second trashcan but would like to decommission it and setup using Slackware 15 instead on the newer, more powerful one.
Had some trouble getting amdgpu to install until I used the HWE kernel during Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installer. Additionally, during the install it setup a dual nic bond to a single IP. I have not found much recent documentation for doing this in Slack. Does anyone have any experience binding dual nic in Slack? This is entirely foreign territory for me.
Lastly, is there anyway to definitively tell that one or both AMD cards in the machine are being utilized? I remember that crossfire and sli was an absolute pain and hardly worked years ago. I haven’t messed with dual cards in some time.
Apologies for the wall of text, just looking for some advice and clarification. Thanks all -cheers
Last edited by Capt_Krill; 11-12-2023 at 12:04 PM.
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