Whelp, the other day my dad gave me a heap of crap pile from some friend of his. The computer

specs: HP zetta 200 MHz 32mb sim memory with 2 GB drive.

I exchanged the 2 GB with a 13 GB Seagate and I replaced the old broken Intel nic with a new realtek + davicom. I attempted to install debian, but I realized I was sorry out of luck because I'm terrible at compiling kernels which is why I run mandrake (just so I can avoid such scenarios. Anyways, after debian did not work, I went with smoothwall, which I couldn't get working, and said, screw this shit and went with mandrake. I installed a very dry installation of mandrake, came out to all of 300mb of files, mainly for a few daemons I'm running. I ran into a few problems afterwards which were related to some sort of issue with sshd, when i stay logged in for too long on that box it seemed to hang and so the internet connection would die. I just avoid using sshd too much on it now :)

I'm starting to finally get some real work done again, i'm working now with the zendstudio client 3, and i must say, i'm quite impressed with it's abilitys as goes for IDE functionality, zend crew didn't screw around when they built this client. I've started a new cms back-end, completely done in OOP, i'm thinking about implimenting PEAR:DB which would make this even more exciting. I will release the source soon enough as to give the public some really nice easy to read object code. I must recommend to all those who actually read my site to go download zend studio client 3 trial version. it's my savior.

Working on my development server and having some problems, so far, i've tried several dristros which are: arch, debian, mandrake 9.1, gentoo 1.4rc4. As far as i can tell at the moment, Mandrake and Gentoo are my favorite. Currently, I am working on getting mandrake 9.1 with apache2 working, due to the fact that my previous apache was 1.3.x , and i don't truely have an understanding of how apache works, to fix this problem. Untill i get my problems settied, i won't be working on anything for The Development Solutions. :/

Just got my linux boxes, starting to experiment with new distro's, and the box speeds are:

• 550mhz p3 384mb sdram, intel 440bx chipset, 2 hd, 1 Maxtor 20gig, 1 WesternDigital 20gig, nvidia tnt2 ultra 32mb, 3com nic

• 800mhz duron 256mb sdram, 1 samsung 20gig, sis chipset, integrated realtek nic, matrox g200 8mb

Anyways, i've tried debian so far, which is nice, very minimalistic setup, but the only problem is see, is it feels too minimalistic, i need a box with some body to it :p, so i'm going to give mandrake 9.1 a shot, hopefully it will setup many of the features which i find to be extremely useful.

I will keep everyone updated on my new development boxes.