My Linux How To
Welcome aboard. This new sub-site is going to chronicle my foray into using Linux as my desktop Operating System of choice. I am not sure that I will be happy all of the time, as I like all of my windows applications, but I am going to give it a shot for a number of reasons.
First, it is not as much of a resource hog as Windows is and I am going to be building a couple of Linux machines on some super-cheap ASUS Terminator barebones systems. They will cost me $79 +shipping each and I will have to throw some “old” SDRAM and a hard drive into them. Other than that, they are ready to go, with an 800MHz Via processor and all. I will be putting Ubuntu Linux on these and using the RDesktop application to Remote Desktop into a windows 2003 Small Business Server. Hopefully, this will work as well as I expect.
Secondly, it is free. Not that I cannot afford to buy Microsoft OSes, I just like the idea of a “free” open source system that has thousands of people contributing to it every day. Linux has been around for many, many years and is running the vast majority of web servers out there today. So, it is clearly up to the task of running some dumpy desktop boxes for me.
Lastly, I am a rookie PHP programmer and I want to do more scripting with PERL and Python in the coming years, so why not make it easier to do so, by running the same system that all of my web server boxes run?
I will be posting updates, tips and how-to’s for Linux installation, administration and day-to-day use. Hopefully, I will learn enough that I will have something to post here.