the corner office

a blog, by Colin Pretorius

A new toy!

A new virtual server to play with!

Well, it's an entry-level virtual server with 256 megs of RAM, and about as much horsepower as an old wrist watch, but still: I'm goin' large with this baby, as they say. I chose Debian Sarge as the distribution because I've never used debianesque distros before, and this will be a fun way to learn the quirks. In addition to the web stuff, it'll give me a chance to play with some admin-ey things as well. First start, learning how to make apt-get do my bidding.

First observation: I don't know if it's because this is a bare bones installation, but this is the first *nix machine I've ever been on that had more, but not less.

{2006.03.01 21:12}

Comments:

1. Leslie (2006.03.09 - 18:44) #

Dude, that is REALLY bare bones! I hve never seen a Debian do that either. I have my web server on Debian and it's great. I think Ubuntu is better though, just because it's basically Debian, but also Easier.

Apt was the reason I came to Debian in the first place - I have never seen the Apt repositories down, but every 3 months Mandrake's URPMI sources were dead again. Frustrating as anything.

2. Colin (2006.03.09 - 19:41) #

So far Debian is looking pretty cool. Apt is also quite decent. It's probably more imagination than anything else, but the few bits and bobs I've been doing on the server, and the more I've been looking at Debian docs, the word that comes to mind is 'solid'.

As opposed to Gentoo, which has its own kind of charm, but is decidedly 'hobbyist' :)

3. Leslie (2006.03.09 - 20:07) #

Yip, I have used Gentoo a bit now and I agree on that. Portage is a really nice system and nice idea, but if I've got to work I can't wait for my X-Windows to compile!

4. Colin (2006.03.11 - 17:14) #

True. With my new beastie compiles are fairly zippy - at worst an overnight affair. With my older 1Ghz machine, if I had X, KDE and the Mozilla clan to compile in one go, 24 hours wasn't unheard of!

(oh yes, and that ever-ballooning pile of slop known as Open Office...)

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