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Successfully installed gentoo on a Oracle always-free 4xARM 24GB RAM instance! (reddthat.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/gentoo@reddthat.com
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Was able to install gentoo on a Oracle always-free instance. It has 4x ARM CPUs and 24 GB RAM. Those specs are really nice for a free instance.

for now I'll use it to self host some public facing services. Who knows, maybe I'll host a personal lemmy instance on it :)

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Congrats! How did the install go? Any major issues?

A word of caution for public services on oracle, they randomly turn off their free tier servers. And they have a new system which destroys inactive servers. So if you are not using a 5-10% average CPU, they "recover" them.

Also, Arm builds for Lemmy are broken ATM so you will be a version behind or have to use a 3rd party's container / build them yourself :)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    With portage updating packages periodically, I am sure I will be hitting the 15% CPU threshold easily 😁😁

    The process was actually pretty easy. Granted, I did not yet mess with the kernel or the boot process yet.

    I'm honestly surprised how easily doable the install process was. I just created a gentoo install chroot, then replaced all the directories from the main root with ones from the gentoo chroot.

    I'd gladly build lemmy from source myself. I suppose it is in the spirit of gentoo!

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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    That is a very generous free instance, enough to make me want to check out Oracle cloud.

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Immoloism did a similar thing lmao

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