Muhammed Emin Boydak eminboydak

Server Installation Guide for Arch Linux

Update system & install basics
Set hostname
Enable time sync
Add new user
SSH Server
1. Install SSH Server
2. Enable SSH Server
Improve SSH Security

Notes on my Arch Linux installation

Notes on my Arch Linux installation
Create the partitions

Arch Linux tweaks

This is a collection of the tweaks and modification I've made to my Arch Linux installation over the months. These may be applicable to other distros, but please check first before doing anything. I also included Arch Wiki references for all the procedures I mentioned. My recommendation is not to blindly follow this gist but to always check with the Arch Linux wiki first. Things move fast and by the time you're reading this my gist may be out of date. Lastly, the golden rule: never execute a command you don't understand.

Installing the KDE Plasma desktop

My current DE of choice is KDE's Plasma. I find it just about perfect.

There are various ways to install it on Arch. The most popular one is to install plasma and plasma-applications, but I don't like doing that because it comes with too many programs I'll never use. I, instead, install the base plasma group, remove the few extra packages that come with it, then I finish off by installing a few KDE apps that don't come with th

STM32 developement on Visual Studio Code

This guide will help you install and setup Visual Studio Code for programming and debugging STM32 boards.

I tested this guide under Arch Linux and Ubuntu 18.04. If you get it to work under other setups, please let me know so I will update the steps with more info.

Warning

If you were using STM32CubeIDE or SystemWorkbench before, you need to convert your projects in order for them to work. The conversion procedure is fully reversible.
Up until the time of writing this guide, it is not possible to use STM32CubeIDE and Visual Studio Code on the same project unless some configuration changes are made on CubeIDE. Besides that, it is reccomended that every person that works on a project runs the same working environment.

Requirements

maim
xclip

Set-up

Set this on your i3 config file ~/.i3/config

# Screenshots

Arch Linux Full-Disk Encryption Installation Guide

This guide provides instructions for an Arch Linux installation featuring full-disk encryption via LVM on LUKS and an encrypted boot partition (GRUB) for UEFI systems.

Following the main installation are further instructions to harden against Evil Maid attacks via UEFI Secure Boot custom key enrollment and self-signed kernel and bootloader.

Preface

You will find most of this information pulled from the Arch Wiki and other resources linked thereof.

Note: The system was installed on an NVMe SSD, substitute /dev/nvme0nX with /dev/sdX or your device as needed.

Installing Arch linux with EFI

Change keyboard layout:
- loadkeys no
Verify boot mode:
- ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars (If the directory exist your computer supports EFI)
Ping some site on the Internet to verify connection:

ping archlinux.org

	Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "touchpad"
	Driver "libinput"
	MatchIsTouchpad "on"
	Option "Tapping" "on"
	Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
	EndSection

	#include <string.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <hwcrypto/aes.h>

	/*
	For Encryption time: 1802.40us (9.09 MB/s) at 16kB blocks.
	*/

	static inline int32_t _getCycleCount(void) {
	int32_t ccount;