Brand new shiny server.

Well, I just sold a guinea pig; Used the cash to buy a bag of feed and a bale of stringy grass hay. It’ll do for keeping the chickens in bedding well enough. The chickens have damn well gone through the weed I brought for them yesterday. Those gals sure can eat. They aren’t laying much for anything, don’t know what that’s about – but we’ll have to start figuring it out.



So, the brand new adventure is linux. Over the last couple of days I installed an Ubuntu server. Turns out, with our happy little DSL service we have a static IP. So, I installed an Ubuntu LAMP server, and then installed the Gnome desktop GUI. The system installs like a breeze – it was super easy. I’ve already installed all of the tools I would want to be able to run just about any web pages I could dream about, and certainly all of them that I could design at this point: that’s cool.

So, now I can be about the business of working with OpenLaszlo. I have a web server for development purposes and sharing with folks. Having a server here at the house doesn’t make things all that much more convenient than having it elsewhere: but I have learned a lot during the installation process, and that’s worth something. It wasn’t that tough, and seeing the heron on the linux desktop proud and beautiful was a pleasant sight.

Linux has come along way since I first experimented with it. The operation system now is quite more robust: with much less hands-on experience needed. As far as being an operating system that can be used by anyone: I think linux fits the bill quite nicely. With the WINE emulator, you can even run windows programs right from within the interface with ease. All in all I am extremely satisfied with my new server.

Dominic