About this site

This site is about my quest into Linux and more specific into the embedded Linux universe.

box.matto.nl

box.matto.nl is my sub domain for personal stuff and is about things I have fun with, hoping others will share the same kind of enthusiasm.

Tools

This site is build with the usual Open Source tools: written with vim, using awk, make and m4 to generate the files. CVS is used as a version control system. This works much quicker and better than most content management systems and was fun to develop. As a bonus this results in search engine friendly URLs.

After generating new of altered files, rsync is used to update the tree on the webserver.

Server

This site is hosted on a small diskless embedded Linux system, running a 2.4 kernel, busybox and the boa webserver. No expensive fill-in-your-bosses-favorite-brand machines.

CGI

The interactive part of this site is build as cgi in C with sqlite as an embedded database.

Contact

You can contact me at matto@matto.nl
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