I'm running Ubuntu!

The webserver in the basement has been overloaded lately, so i started the process of getting another computer up and running. I had an old PII/128 rotting downstairs, so i popped in an old 20gig drive i had lying around, and installed Ubuntu.

Ubuntu has a rep as the Linux distro for everyone, so i thought i’d give it a try. I’ve tried other Linux distros, but have generally been disappointed. Mostly because it is so hard to find out how to do stuff, from simple to hard, unless you are already a linux pro.

Ubuntu really is different. I was able to find an excellent guide which had examples of everything i needed to do. Since i did the server install, there were some differences, because i didn’t have the nice graphical UI, but i was able to find out all the things i needed to know. How to install SSH, change where apt-get looks for packages, mount a network share on startup - all surprisingly easy.

The point of this whole exercise was to get my mp3 server software (slimserver) running, and it was a lot easier to do then i’d expected. I now have no hesitations about moving the main webserver over to Ubuntu as well. That will be a big job, for another day, or weekend…

Well done Ubuntu developers, and thanks!