About the site moria.de

You are inside the colossal cave of moria, stumbling over a twisty little maze of cables. You hear computers humming loudly. Obviously, this is a hacker's place.

There is only one door.

>_

Actually, the network spans across the whole house, and the machine room looks better than the introduction may suggest.

I used to run my own GNU/Linux distribution for 25 years, because distributions did not exist when I started with Linux 0.13, and I never found the need to switch to one, as building and installing used to be straight forward and everything was lean and simple.

These days, much open source software shows bloat and dependency hell, enforcing to install a dozen packages just for a rather simple target package. Some packages are released with bugs that even prevent building them. A distribution is needed to fix all that at the price of even more bloat and complexity, and often lack of freedom in choices, but in the end, it does save more time than it costs. I use Arch Linux, which proved to get less in my way than others.

Here are all machines at moria.de, just the kind of stuff geeks like to read about.

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