I have been hosting my web site since Dec 2000. I have a huge collection of photos. Photos scanned from film before 2002 and photos from digital camera since September 2002. I also have a huge collection of MP3s ripped from my collection of CDs (3500+ songs). All this data is stored on my home…
Transition to Gentoo has been very smooth without any major issues. I like Gentoo. It is designed with developers and system admins in mind. The community is very much like Debian. If you patiently ask sensible questions on their IRC channel (freenode.net #gentoo) or post questions to their mailing list people answer them. After compiling…
After getting my machine up and running a couple of weeks back, I created many partitions on my 80GB harddisk to install various Linux distros and compare them. I want a distro that is user friendly and easy to use as a desktop. Since this machine is going to be used primarily as a desktop…
I am getting tired of compiling and recompiling lots of packages over and over to keep my system up-to-date. Because there are no binary packages (except for openoffice, mozilla and a few others) in Gentoo with every update you end up compiling the whole thing again and again. The compiling and installing of packages is…
I have used various Linuxes for my home server. This home server hosts my bapat.net web site, my @bapat.net mail server and our intranet (yes! I have 5 computers at home, 6 if you count the office laptop) file server. I have almost always stuck with RedHat (and now a days Fedora) with the exception…