If you're serious about learning to run linux as a server rather than a
desktop, then choose either debian lenny or CentOS 5.3. As you're
already using ubuntu, then this is the one that'll probably be easier.
Unless you have a mentor to aid the process, then choose the one they're
most comfortable
Daniel Hill wrote:
I'm about to acquire a old computer from my friend (AMD 1.6GHz 80GB HDD)
and want to eventually set it up as a webserver, game server, wireless
router and any other servers that I mite want to play with
I also want to learn linux properly (currently running ubuntu on my desktop
Daniel Hill wrote, On 14/08/09 13:53:
* Any other suggestions ?
the other option would be to just setup the server with ubuntu server or
debian, and use a VM on my desktop to learn linux with maybe slackware
Start with the one you have the most experience with already, be it
1) deb based (debi
Robert Fisher wrote:
> but if you want to learn more about Linux as you go and are really
> prepared to get your hands dirty, go for Gentoo.
getting my hands dirty is exactly what I want to do just don't know if I
can be bothered with the 8h compile time, wondering if there is another
distro that'l
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
> I'm about to acquire a old computer from my friend (AMD 1.6GHz 80GB HDD)
> and want to eventually set it up as a webserver, game server, wireless
> router and any other servers that I mite want to play with
> I also want to learn linux properly
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
> Robert Fisher wrote:
> > but if you want to learn more about Linux as you go and are really
> > prepared to get your hands dirty, go for Gentoo.
> getting my hands dirty is exactly what I want to do just don't know if I
> can be bothered with t
> Install time has been much much easier for folks the past 2 years,
> with stage3 being the default instead of stage1, and stage 1 now being
> officially unsupported. Stage 1 imho gives you a much closer look at
> how things work. ( I've become a bit of a masochist on the deal, and
> have install
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
>
> > Install time has been much much easier for folks the past 2 years,
> > with stage3 being the default instead of stage1, and stage 1 now being
> > officially unsupported. Stage 1 imho gives you a much closer look at
> > how things work. ( I'
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
> Robert Fisher wrote:
>> but if you want to learn more about Linux as you go and are really
>> prepared to get your hands dirty, go for Gentoo.
> getting my hands dirty is exactly what I want to do just don't know if I
> can be bothered with the
Kent Fredric wrote:
> For minimal pain, don't unmask the ~ ( testing ) versions of things
> during stage 1. You'll find if you do you'll find a fun gcc cyclic
> dependency :) ( that is, don't set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS= to "~amd64" or
> "~x86" leave them at "amd64" or "x86" )
>
> Once you get to stage
On Friday 14 August 2009, Daniel Hill wrote:
> Kent Fredric wrote:
> > For minimal pain, don't unmask the ~ ( testing ) versions of things
> > during stage 1. You'll find if you do you'll find a fun gcc cyclic
> > dependency :) ( that is, don't set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS= to "~amd64" or
> > "~x86" lea
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
> Kent Fredric wrote:
> > For minimal pain, don't unmask the ~ ( testing ) versions of things
> > during stage 1. You'll find if you do you'll find a fun gcc cyclic
> > dependency :) ( that is, don't set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS= to "~amd64" or
> > "~
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Ross Drummond wrote:
> On Friday 14 August 2009, Daniel Hill wrote:
> > Kent Fredric wrote:
> > > For minimal pain, don't unmask the ~ ( testing ) versions of things
> > > during stage 1. You'll find if you do you'll find a fun gcc cyclic
> > > dependency :) ( t
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 16:49 +1200, Daniel Hill wrote:
> Kent Fredric wrote:
> > For minimal pain, don't unmask the ~ ( testing ) versions of things
> > during stage 1. You'll find if you do you'll find a fun gcc cyclic
> > dependency :) ( that is, don't set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS= to "~amd64" or
> > "
Greets CLUGgers,
2009/8/14 Daniel Hill :
> I'm about to acquire a old computer from my friend (AMD 1.6GHz 80GB HDD)
> and want to eventually set it up as a webserver, game server, wireless
> router and any other servers that I mite want to play with
> I also want to learn linux properly (currently
steve wrote, On 14/08/09 18:18:
With risk in mind, it's best to use software "certified"* for a specific
os, and to do that most simply, it's best to stay in the mainline, which
really is RH/CentOS 5.3 or debian lenny.
*This is a very loose definition of the word, where package releases a
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Craig Falconer wrote:
> steve wrote, On 14/08/09 18:18:
>> With risk in mind, it's best to use software "certified"* for a
>> specific
>> os, and to do that most simply, it's best to stay in the mainline,
>> which
>> really is RH/CentOS 5.3 or debian l
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