By nahum | October 13, 2008
I’ve changed my home server from Centos 5.1 (32bit) to Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 (64bit) due to the CentOS drive crashing – it was real old. As my server doesn’t actually have a screen when it’s carefully hidden away I initially enabled Remote Desktop for GUI access. This worked ok, although slightly sluggish, in [...]
A little more fiddling and I discovered that when I installed vim-full an incomplete install of ruby 1.8 was also placed on the system. Aptitude thought ruby was installed, but it wasn’t. Hence two posts ago me saying that Ubuntu was weird and I had to reinstall ruby.
A second problem with what I installed was [...]
I was looking through the slicehost article section the other night and bumped into an awesome article on initial configuration steps for ubuntu. If you don’t know what your doing, you should go take a look at that.
So, anyway. I’ve got a server up and going doing absolutely nothing, and I’m assuming you do too [...]
So I’ve setup my SliceHost account and have created a server (the 256mb of ram one for $20 a month). First off though I needed to the usual house keeping when setting up a new server.
The Centos image at slicehost is bare basic and only comes with openssh, where as the Ubuntu image has a [...]
As I eluded to yesterday I’m going down the Ubuntu track and doing this on SliceHost.
Ubuntu, because basically the wealth of resources available online for this distribution is massive compared to the likes of CentOS/RedHat. Well, the places where I look anyways. I use SliceHost for hosting Ponoko and couldn’t praise them more. For US$20 [...]
