Update on Server at Home
By: Compubomb @ Aug 25, 2005 @ 6:48 pm
My server kind of died on me about a week ago. I had to replace the hard drive and the video card unfortunately. Granted, I did have a new hard drive to replace the old one--40 gigabyte Quantum drive--but the new drive is much larger--260gigabyte Western Digital. Now the server is back up, but unfortunately, I could not get it running on Debian 3.1 stable(sarge), it is now running on Mandriva Limited Edition 2005. I cannot try to make those who read this understand how much I adore this distribution. It is a life saver when it comes to patience, patience which I completely lack, and therefore I am not willing to spend many hours in front of a terminal trying to figure out how to setup some foreign distribution and screw everything to hell and back. Granted, Mandriva still uses rpm, but it is definitely not a clone of Redhat or anything associated to it other than their package management. Everyone in my opinion should give it a shot, Mandriva is definitely worth the time and effort to setup, you can set it up from scratch in just under 25 to 30 minutes depending on how fast your computer is and what media you use, I had the DVD Disk Image of Mandriva with all 5 CDs on it. It was extremely pleasant to install.