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
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.
