Updating and continuing this blog...
over a year since I've updated Linux-Blog.com, but here goes. I've been doing some overhauling of the systems here in the office, as well as on my personal system, so we'll begin the return of Linux-Blog by chronicling these.
I'll start with the current state of the systems here at seashell software:
hasufel is your basic compaq desktop system with an AMD Athlon 3800 processor and a gig of RAM. He's my desk workstation, so he's got the scanner, laserjet, etc., attached. Hasufel also has an ATI All-In-Wonder video card, so the cable tv is hooked to him as well, and he has an external 80GB hard drive dedicated to video-capture. Hasufel runs Windows XP Media Edition.
shadowfax is the primary mail/web server. He's a generic 2U rackmount system with dual-700mhz Pentium III processors. Shadowfax currently runs FreeBSD 5.1. This is where qmail resides to handle my e-mail, and Apache/MySQL/PHP/Movable Type run my blogs. He's also got PHPbb installed, but we're really not using the forum software at the moment.
arod is my primary portable system. He is an Acer TravelMate C310 tablet PC. Windows XP Tablet Edition came with him pre-installed, and arod's had SuSe 10 in a dual-boot configuration for over a year now. This week, I've replaced his SuSe 10 with Ubuntu "Feisty." I decided to give Ubuntu a try so I can keep up with all the kool kidz, and because it's based on Debian. Debian's package installer is easy to use, and Ubuntu is supposed to be more desktop-friendly than other distros.
snowmane is a generic 1U rackmount system with a single 800mhz Pentium III. My original intention with this system was to buy two of them and work on an OpenSSI cluster, but that project got back-burnered for other things. He had Debian "Sarge" installed, but now is running FreeBSD 6.2. That may or may not change, depending on how things go with getting the infrastructure set up to run the Scoop collaborative blogging package.
windfola is a Compaq Proliant 6500 with 4-1ghz processors, 4GB of RAM and an internal SCSI shelf with 5-18GB drives configured as a RAID5 array. He's a 4U behemoth. My intention with windfola is to use him as a platform for VMware testing. Currently, he's running Debian "Etch."
roheryn is a Digital Equipment Corporation AlphaServer 600au running Tru64 UNIX 5.1a. At some point, roheryn will enter the Linux world.
Projects:
arod will be getting new applications to see if Ubuntu will cut it on my portable.
snowmane will be getting a major overhaul, with new motherboard/cpu/ram, then a new install of either Debian "Etch" or FreeBSD 6.2, whichever turns out to be more stable for Scoop.
hasufel ain't broke, and I intend to keep him that way for a while.
windfola will get VMware as soon as I can download the eval. I also need to contact those folks and see if they'll give me a full, legal, copy. Given my relationship with EMC2, it would help promote their product in my classes.