I'm planning to upgrade my Matebook D16 with a 2Tb hard drive, ditching Windows 11 for some Linux flavor. This is a project aimed at vanlifers who wanna set up a Bitcoin node on an old laptop. Bodhi 7.0 caught my eye since it looks like a solid distro with speed and a barebones installation. You install only what you need. Since Bodhi is based on Ubuntu, and I've had no issues running a node on Ubuntu before, I'm feeling pretty good about this.
Anyone got advice, tips, or thoughts on making this work? Just a heads up, I'll be using public WiFi or a mobile hotspot.
I've no specific tips. But since it's based on Ubuntu, tutorial for Ubuntu might work on Bodhi. Of course there are more exception when GUI is involved since Ubuntu use GNOME while Bodhi use Mokhsa.
Yep, it seems to be a cut down version of the "Jammy Jellyfish" version of Ubuntu. Where do they find these names? It's really just the bare bones, and it doesn't include things like Snap, as this slows down the operation of the computer I understand. It looks ideal if you just want to use the computer for a few specific functions, such as running a node. Right now I'm using Thunderbird for email, and WaterFox for browsing. I might include those if the hold up to my current requirements. Bodhi uses slightly more than 250Mb of RAM, and that will leave lots of room for the node software to run in the background I hope.
Well I mean as long as your RAM and dbcache are large enough, I don't really know what else to say.
Don't create any wallets on it or use it to broadcast any transactions unless you are using the Tor network. So onlynet=onion. A public WiFi has all sorts of people eavesdropping on the connections.
Short answer, it's based on an adjective and animal name.
Full answer, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
It's use less RAM than i expected since their FAQ state 512MB is the minimum requirements.
It's also worth to mention connection between Bitcoin nodes isn't encrypted.
My chainstate directly is currently 11 GB. If that doesn't fit in your RAM, Bitcoin Core has to read and write a very large amount of data for each new block it verifies. I recently tested it with 8 GB RAM, and the IBD wrote several TB of data to my disk. Have you added the maximum (16 GB) to your Matebook yet?
Why go through all the trouble of running a Bitcoin node that takes 2 GB per week in bandwidth, if you have to rely on public wifi and cellular data? Aren't you much better off with Electrum? You can run it over Tor for privacy, and you can create different wallets if you don't want the server to link your addresses together.
According to Microsoft that's all you need to run Windows Server Core also:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/hardware-requirements?tabs=ram
But that does not mean it will run well or your apps will preform properly.
8GB is the min you should be running core in if you want to do anything else and 16 is better.
After the initial IBD using 2GB of data a week is not so bad if you are using the machine an hour or so a day on most pubic Wi-Fi.
Not really doing much harm to the BTC network in general doing that.
-Dave
I know I am drifting a little off-topic but really, Windows Server with only the CLI fits in just 512MB of memory?
That is quite incredible. I already knew that this was possible under Linux, but not Windows.
It is a bit too bad that you have to pay for all the Windows Server versions by buying a license though. Otherwise I could see a use case for a bunch of old (windows) computers that need to run some obscure Windows software in headless mode.