August 11th, 2008
Simple Home File Server Based On Ubuntu | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials is a nice little howto article that netted me a file server to use for daily backups. Elz’s hard drive melting down last weekend finally got my ass in gear to put this together. Of course, not before she lost all of her email and address book. I was able to save the photos and music collection though. Hooray for partitions!
At any rate, if’n you’re looking for a quick and dirty network file server, you could do a lot worse than this. OTOH, if’n you’re looking for a micro-powered, highly tailored file server, you can probably do a lot better. All I know is that I now have all of our machines dumping nightly backups to a file server, and have the foundation for a home media center once I get myself together for that project.
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November 12th, 2007
I’ve been using Ubuntu server edition for my end-of-lifecycle PC turned headless web/file server for the past year and change. For the most part I like it. What you lose in hardware-specific tuning in Gentoo you generally more than make up for in easy of install and use. I rather like Gentoo’s portage and have since come to appreciate the utility of apt-get. What I don’t like, however, is Unbuntu / Debian’s insistence on renaming popular modules in what I would assume is some misguided attempt at making the whole OS human readable.
For example, I spent an unreasonable amount of time yesterday hunting for PyXML, a bog-standard and widely used 3rd party Python module. It wasn’t until I finally decided to step outside the apt-get process and install myself from source that I found a reference indicating that PyXML is actually referred to as python-xml in Ubuntu.
In the grand scheme of things, it rates a meh. Still, there is always a small window of opportunity for programming projects on the weekend and the more time I have to spend configging my environment, the less time and energy I have for doing what it is I want. If you’re going to fudge with the package names, please include a thesaurus.
That is all.
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