SilvrT Posted March 8, 2008 #1 Posted March 8, 2008 No, I didn't buy a 2nd gen... I installed Ubuntu Linux and here I am! I set this up on my home PC while retaining my original Windows XP OS... now have a dual boot loader. Decided to move to Linux at home as I'm installing it onto one of my servers at work, replacing Windows 2003 Enterprise. Of the 5 servers we have, the Linux server will play a small role, acting as a "disaster recovery" storage box for all the data as well as the other server's images which are updated on a weekly basis. The decision to move to Linux was mostly monetary as we're replacing our first domain controller and didn't want to purchase another copy of Windows 2003 server. We can use the copy from the converted Linux box. I've been experimenting with Linux for several years; however, this is the first time I've used it in a real world situation. Gotta say...it's GREAT!
E-Fishin-C Posted March 8, 2008 #2 Posted March 8, 2008 I was ready to give you a swift kick in the behind there:rotfl:
SilvrT Posted March 9, 2008 Author #3 Posted March 9, 2008 I was ready to give you a swift kick in the behind there:rotfl: ya don't wanna do that... ya'd break yer foot! (by behind is all bone)
Gene-b Posted March 9, 2008 #4 Posted March 9, 2008 Sounds like your computer is nearly as old as your bike! Maybe they both need to be updated:rotf:
SilvrT Posted March 9, 2008 Author #5 Posted March 9, 2008 Sounds like your computer is nearly as old as your bike! Maybe they both need to be updated:rotf: you know... I've had this computer longer than any other (and I've had many). It still amazes me how well it performs. It's about 7 yrs old ( +/- ) .. it's an over-clocked AMD 1.8Ghz... fast video card, 1Gb RAM... 200Gig hard drive... not once has it failed me. No, no need to update it yet. Next year...maybe.
tmodel Posted March 9, 2008 #6 Posted March 9, 2008 Naw Rick. You have just moved from the Gates side to the Open Source side! Have you had any experience with VMWare? If not, take a look. I think it is the best thing since sliced cheese. You can get the Beta server version 2 for free still. It is not full function but with the purchase of VMWare workstation for about $60 you can you can manipulate images. Our data center in NY and NJ are using a full server version. I'm looking at a test implementation for my office. I have much to learn. Tim
SilvrT Posted March 9, 2008 Author #7 Posted March 9, 2008 Naw Rick. You have just moved from the Gates side to the Open Source side! Have you had any experience with VMWare? If not, take a look. I think it is the best thing since sliced cheese. You can get the Beta server version 2 for free still. It is not full function but with the purchase of VMWare workstation for about $60 you can you can manipulate images. Our data center in NY and NJ are using a full server version. I'm looking at a test implementation for my office. I have much to learn. Tim Being in the computer business for the past 20 years, I've probably experimented with most everything...including vmware...the first time about 8 or 9 years ago. VMware is good but in order to utilize it effectively, you need lots of RAM and lots of hard drive space IMHO. I'd thought of that and it's not entirely out of the question .... we're still looking at all the options but a new server is very cheap these days...especially one configured solely as a domain controller running active directory. This unit has a RAID controller, and 2 SCSI hard drives. Insofar as our current operation and requirements, my preference is separate servers...one as the domain controller, the other as the "disaster recovery" server. Our business is "mission critical" meaning that if anything goes down on our systems, we can't operate so for us, the more things set up to protect us from a crash, the better. Interestingly enuf, no matter how much you plan for disasters, you never really know for sure how things will go unless a disaster occurs and when it does, it's usually one you haven't fully prepared for LOL. We have a custom-designed database app that is used to run the business... it's designed so that if the server side of the data store is unavailable, it will operate using a client side store. Well, a few weeks ago, the entire network just FROZE. It took me 20 minutes to recover and get everyone operational. For us, that is WAY too long so, in less than a day I made necessary changes....never expecting to have to revert to them but 2 days later, same thing happened.... in 2 minutes I had eveyone operating again. In the meantime I've pinpointed what caused the freeze and rectified that. Those 2 occasions were associated and rare. Fun and games!
SilvrT Posted March 9, 2008 Author #8 Posted March 9, 2008 I tested Ubuntu, Red Hat, and OpenSUSE. The latter being my personal preference. Ubuntu desktop is really disigned for the "average" user who wants a "simple" desktop. I found OpenSUSE very easy to install and configure (similar to Ubuntu) while at the same time, it has way more "advanced" GUI's. Red Hat is ok but ya need 5 CD's whereas the other 2 only need one. All those I tested on my test machine at work. It's a lot faster than my home PC. I only tested Ubuntu on the home PC... found it to be considerably slower than WinXP and surfing the net was terribly slow in comparison (maybe that was a FireFox issue... ). Downloading OpenSUSE now...will update when it's installed. (now why didn't I bring my CD's home from work? LOL)
DonB Posted March 9, 2008 #9 Posted March 9, 2008 I tried Xubuntu on my laptop and on a spare PC and I found them to be so bloody slow that they were unuseable. I'll stick with XP for now. db
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