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I was mindlessly searching about Linux laptops, Pinebook Pro and Dell’s refurbished laptops. After joining AWS, my work is more and more Linux-focused. Several coworkers are even using Linux laptops.

So, I felt that I should have a Linux machine nearby. My closest were public clouds including AWS, but they were not really cheap especially for running Firecracker.

Then I realized that I had an Raspberry Pi 3. I bought that a few years ago to built an baby camera, which I didn’t. While Raspberry Pi 4 is required to use Firecracker, Pi 3 is fine for just playing with Linux.

Raspberry Pi OS and Raspberry Pi Imager

Raspbian is now called “Raspberry Pi OS” and creating the initial SD card is greatly simplified by Raspberry Pi Imager. A little note for “do you really need Electron for that?” folks, the imager is using Qt, not Electron.

I was using Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32-bit) since the Pi will be used as a headless server.

raspi-config

raspi-config command is used to configure locale, time zone and other miscellaneous stuff.

IP addresses

On my home network, a Xfinity router is assigning IP addresses through DHCP. So I changed the range as 10.0.0.20 - 10.0.0.253.

Then I added the below lines on /etc/dhcpcd.conf on the Pi 3.

interface eth0
static ip_address=10.0.0.2/24
static routers=10.0.0.1
static domain_name_servers=1.1.1.1

interface wlan0
static ip_address=10.0.0.3/24
static routers=10.0.0.1
static domain_name_servers=1.1.1.1

But I got DAD detected. Turned out, my wife’s old iPad was holding 10.0.0.3 still. So I had to re-connect the iPad to the Wi-Fi to renew its IP address.