User:Pietinger

Pietinger

Peter B.

Male

Bavaria

German

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pietinger (IRC)

Gentoo user since 2005

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deThis user is a native speaker of German.

en-1This user is able to contribute with a basic level of English.

About me

Hi, I'm an old man speaking only poor school english.

On IRC, find me in #gentoo-de (webchat) as pietinger in german language, and in #gentoo-forums (webchat) in english language (with the same name).

My projects

I wrote a german articles series named "Installation Guide for Paranoid Dummies" as posts in our Gentoo Forums. It is focused on security and uses only OpenRC. In my starting post you will find links to more articles explaining FireWall, SecureBoot, encryption, AppArmor and some more. If you speak german you might be interested in it: [1]

Links

Subpages

• Draft/IMA
• Draft/Quick Installation OpenRC for an UEFI System
• Experimental
• Experimental/Kernel Upgrade from 6.10 to 6.11
• Experimental/Kernel Upgrade from 6.11 to 6.12
• Experimental/Kernel Upgrade from 6.12 to 6.13
• Experimental/Kernel Upgrade from 6.13 to 6.14
• Experimental/Kernel Upgrade from 6.14 to 6.15
• Experimental/Manual Configuring Current Kernel
• Experimental/Manual Configuring Kernel Version 6.10
• Experimental/Manual Configuring Kernel Version 6.7
• Experimental/Manual Configuring Kernel Version 6.8
• Experimental/Manual Configuring Kernel Version 6.9
• File/Kernel 6.12 defconfig for Intel
• New at Gentoo
• Overview of System Information
• Tutorials
• Tutorials/Boot kernel via UEFI
• Tutorials/Confusion with root=PARTUUID= and root=UUID=
• Tutorials/Initramfs Overview
• Tutorials/Kernel Commandline Parameter
• Tutorials/Kernel Hardening with KSPP
• Tutorials/Manual Configuring Kernel Version 6.1
• Tutorials/Manual Configuring Kernel Version 6.12
• Tutorials/Manual Configuring Kernel Version 6.6
• Tutorials/Manual kernel configuration
• Tutorials/Optimize compile times
• Tutorials/Selecting a convenient kernel version
• temp/delete me
• temp/test

Contributions

• Contributions

External link collection

• I like Linus Torvalds' approach: "No, we don't make random features default to being on."

[2025-06-10] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aef17cb3d3c43854002956f24c24ec8e1a0e3546

• Oh no, there could be a lot of work on us (me) ... let's see what the next default config of the kernel will look like

[2025-05-05] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Modernize-x86-defconfig

• This article shows why I am not a friend of automatic configuration creation; especially the IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC)

[2025-04-30] https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/thewizards-apt-group-slaac-spoofing-adversary-in-the-middle-attacks/

• The current CPU microcode is becoming increasingly important:

[2025-04-21] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Old-Microcode-Vulnerable

• Why I have always been suspicious of “grub” (and all other boot loaders) and therefore boot my kernel directly via UEFI:

[2025-03-31] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/31/analyzing-open-source-bootloaders-finding-vulnerabilities-faster-with-ai/

• Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

[2025-03-27] https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model