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A friend of mine is a newly “converted” and happy Linux user since a while. Since he also bought lots of new machines lately, he has some old ones around - one of which he plans to turn into a server for the whole family, again with Linux of course. So the first one of today’s links is for him:

Carla Schroder, also known as “tuxchick”, and a fellow team member of mine on LXer, as well as a long year sysadmin and O’Reilly book author, just started a series which she calls

Build Your Own RAID Storage Server with Linux

She just finished the first of these articles, but more are soon to come - and I trust her fully in making up something really good, especially for the intended home-server audience.

And indeed, with prices for hardware being low at the moment, building your own server could turn out to be a much better solution than even to consider a small (think of 2 or more hard disks) NAS device.

Another nice “convert” story is the one of an Australian systems engineer/administrator, who calls his blog “The UNIX Blog - All Flavours of Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc.)“. He recently turned his wife - who is the type of user who simply wants “to get the job done” - into a new user who loves Linux. That got him so astonished himself, that he claimed and titled his story

It’s Official - Linux is better than Windows

Thanks for sharing this with us - there’s hardly anything better than a good success story!

Finally, James linked back to me after reading my press release from last night, announcing ZaReason Europe. He called this “awesome news” in a comment on The Debian User already, and now even reports about it on his own blog, titled

ZaReason in the EU!

Thanks again, James. People like you, who even help vendors with R & D, are just plain great!

James owns a ZaReason BigLap (that’s an Asus Z84FM), and managed to “turn around” the picture of the internal webcam, which was upside down. So the kudos have to go back to James - he deserves it.