History of Server Configuration
<h2>Hardware</h2>
<ul>
<li>Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 with Radeon Graphics</li>
<li>Memory: 64 GiB of RAM</li>
<li>Graphics: Nvidia GT710 1Gb (being used text only)</li>
<li>Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology B550M AORUS ELITE</li>
<li>Storage: 1Tb SSD</li>
</ul>
<h2>Software</h2>
<ul>
<li>Linux: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250816</li>
<li>Kernel: 6.16.1-1-default (64-bit)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Web Services Stack</h2>
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<td>nginx - nginx/1.29.1<br />
<em><span style="font-size:10px"><a href="https://nginx.org/en/">nginx</a> - </span>nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.</em></td>
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<td>PHP - 8.4.11 (Aug 8 2025 20:10:09)<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://php.net">PHP</a> - "A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world."<br />
Heart of the web services stack.</em></span></td>
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<td>Firebird - LI-V5.0.2.1613<br />
<em><span style="font-size:10px"><a href="https://www.firebirdsql.org/">Firebird</a> - Extremely robust open source database which I have been using since it's Interbase days.</span></em></td>
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<p>Of the three components, only the first two are actually part of the Tumbleweed repositories. Need to update Firebird manually, and 5.0.3 is available.</p>
<h2>Display Configuration</h2>
<p>Why would one need to worry about display configuration when running text only? Because the KVM is connected to one of the 4k monitors and by default the text is too small to read properly, so one has to override the defaults to get readable text. It's only really a problem with a reboot since normally one would be using SSH into the machine.</p>
<p>Something that was a niggle while installing initially was the fact that it always uses graphics for that but that default can't handle the 4k display so I ended up running VGA into the TV just to get past that stage. Gone are the good old days when text mode actually meant text mode.</p>
<ul>
<li>Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 with Radeon Graphics</li>
<li>Memory: 64 GiB of RAM</li>
<li>Graphics: Nvidia GT710 1Gb (being used text only)</li>
<li>Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology B550M AORUS ELITE</li>
<li>Storage: 1Tb SSD</li>
</ul>
<h2>Software</h2>
<ul>
<li>Linux: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250816</li>
<li>Kernel: 6.16.1-1-default (64-bit)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Web Services Stack</h2>
<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table table-bordered table-striped" style="width:100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>nginx - nginx/1.29.1<br />
<em><span style="font-size:10px"><a href="https://nginx.org/en/">nginx</a> - </span>nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PHP - 8.4.11 (Aug 8 2025 20:10:09)<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://php.net">PHP</a> - "A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world."<br />
Heart of the web services stack.</em></span></td>
</tr>
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<td>Firebird - LI-V5.0.2.1613<br />
<em><span style="font-size:10px"><a href="https://www.firebirdsql.org/">Firebird</a> - Extremely robust open source database which I have been using since it's Interbase days.</span></em></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<p>Of the three components, only the first two are actually part of the Tumbleweed repositories. Need to update Firebird manually, and 5.0.3 is available.</p>
<h2>Display Configuration</h2>
<p>Why would one need to worry about display configuration when running text only? Because the KVM is connected to one of the 4k monitors and by default the text is too small to read properly, so one has to override the defaults to get readable text. It's only really a problem with a reboot since normally one would be using SSH into the machine.</p>
<p>Something that was a niggle while installing initially was the fact that it always uses graphics for that but that default can't handle the 4k display so I ended up running VGA into the TV just to get past that stage. Gone are the good old days when text mode actually meant text mode.</p>