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| Written by Luther Pollok | |
| Sunday, 22 May 2005 | |
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Page 6 of 15 I have an interest in experimenting and developing things Now I know that for most of you, Linux will not be your cup of tea. I like tinkering and building things. Since it costs money to build "real" things, building virtual things in Linux is the perfect environment to try out different things and experiment. An excellant outlet for my creative technical side. This web site's current appearence and features owes its existance to just this kind of curiousity. To give you an idea of how deep I've gotten myself in. I have a 10 machine local network with all machines able to browse out on the Internet at the same time. My primary desktop can boot to about 5 completely different operating systems. All Linux based except for the old original Windows XP installation that came with the machine and these days the XP installation only gets booted days about once every 6 weeks or so if that often. My newest machine I acquired as an "appliance" server. Bought new from Dell for $325 new in the box delivered to the house over the Internet. Try to do that with a MS Windows machine. For a comparable MS machine you would be looking at about $600 minimum and the monitor is extra. My Dell server machine came without an operating system installed (so no Microsoft tax). This machine currently runs the IUEC Local 139 web server, my music server where I can listen to all of my 1900+ music tracks from any machine in the world. It also serves as a Local Network file server and could also server as a network print server. I access this machine from my desktop using VNC. I also have this machine configured so that I can maintain it from any machine on the Internet. If you poke around I have a bunch of other Internet toys that I am playing with either on this server or on my local machine. Some of the latest things I am exploring are creating bootable Linux operating systems on CD-R. You could take one of my CD's and boot it on your machine and your running Linux without harming your existing Windows installation. Actually, these bootable CD's are a good learning tool where you can play with Linux without actually doing anything dangerous to your existing installation. |
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