A stateless workstation with EasyOS
After reading the blog post of Solene (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-04-20-workstation-going-stateless.html) back in april the thought of recreating something like her setup lingered in my mind. With #EasyOS as Live Distribution I had now the ideal tool at hand.
What is my goal?
Well, to put it simple: A workstation that is in the same state on any reboot. Think about how things were back in the C64 days.
So, what did I do?
I installed #EasyOS on a new USB stick, configured it the way I liked it and installed the necessary software I need locally. I will access a few web services I had already running at pikapods (https://pikapods.com):
- Pydio cells for data storage
- Gitea for my development
- Shiori for bookmark management
- WeKan for task management
I already use Bitwarden as password manager, bit I am already looking for an local alternative.
After I had everything configured in EasyOS it was just a matter of selecting "Lockdown in RAM" at the shutdown option menu and selecting "permanent" in the option to tell the system to copy everything to RAM at the next reboot and unmount the stick. From this moment on my system is at every reboot in the same state - until I select at boot that I want to back into a mutable state (e.g. to install additional software)
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