SuSe

I must admit I'm becoming more and more impressed with this distribution of SuSe Linux. I've worked with Solaris a lot over the years but the ease of use that SuSe has put into their distribution sure makes it nice. Its still lacking some of the more robust features of Solaris esp. around debugging and tracing. I currently run our webMethods(webMethods is an Enterprise Integration Platform) infrastructure on Solaris. But I can see a future for Linux as our platform esp. when webMethods gets all of its components onto the Linux platform.

Upgrade?

I thinking about upgrading the server that this site is running on. It's an old gateway with 256MB of RAM, 450Mhz processor. I have been amazed at how well Linux has been running on it. I really haven't had any performance issues. But I would eventually see running some more apps that would require more memory. My old UPS has died so that is a upcoming purchase as well.

CNN.com - Open-source software running the Internet under the radar - Jul 20, 2004

CNN.com - Open-source software running the Internet under the radar - Jul 20, 2004

Interesting mainstream article about apache, linux and what is running the internet. What's also interesting about this is the comment about big software vendors and what really drives them. No surprise here.

Fortune.com - Magazine - For Naps On the Go, Nothing Beats a Pod

Fortune.com - Magazine - For Naps On the Go, Nothing Beats a Pod

I would be happy to provide the same experience in my cube for half the price, complete with headphones.

Setting up the Linux Home Server

I highly recommend it. It was pretty straight forward and fun to do. Make sure you have a good firewall though. I was very surprised how many auto port scans were hitting the router, esp. from China and Poland. What's up with that? Also turn off all the services that you don't need on the Linux server. And make sure you use ssh and sftp if you are going to do anything to it from a remote location like say from your cube prison.