Ubuntu Linux

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I inherited an old Dell OptiPlex GX270 desktop PC from work and decided it was finally time to retire my old Linux laptop running Mandrake 10.0 and make the switch to Ubuntu. I built the box using Feisty Fawn (7.04) but a few days later Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) was released so I did an in-place upgrade.

It’s going to take me a while to get used to using ‘sudo’ all the time since Ubuntu doesn’t let you (or, rather, strongly discourages you) from logging in as root. But other than that, a Linux distro is a Linux distro. I do have to say, though, that so far I love apt-get! So much easier than using RPMFinder and then getting stuck in package dependency hell (Mandrake 10 might have had some sort of built-in package management, but I never used it and did things manually … that’s how we learn, right?).

My new server is running pretty much all the same things the old Mandrake laptop did: Galleon and pyTiVo for serving photos, music, and video to my TiVos, the Apache web server, NUT for UPS monitoring, Nagios for network monitoring, Gallery for my photos, and Folding@Home just for fun.

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