Sunday January 08, 2006

Too good to be free!

I have recently heard about Nexenta OS (GNU Solaris). So when I tried to install it on Galaxy systems, the installation went just flawlessly! With all the GNU apps for the userland combined with rich OpenSolaris kernel, I was so impressed and excited, I ended up doing something which I have never done before. I immediately opened an account with Paypal and donated some money to them (not too much though, $20.00 :-) Keep up the good work Nexenta!) Well, having done that, it made me feel guilty for not paying anything to the folks at "CentOS" in spite of using it for more than an year and haven't given them anything. So I ended up paying the same amount for them as well.

Incidently, I also happened to read this book - Linux Toys II by "Christopher Negus". It's an excellent book in my opinion and I would strongly recommend to anyone who is looking for fun projects on Linux. Gives you a lot of confidence that even YOU could do it :-)

By the way, if you have been thinking about setting up a small computer at home and running your own website with minimal/zero coding, but doesn't know where to start or how to go about doing it, here are my favourite picks.

Try downloading them and start playing around. As you go by, you'll start seeing things falling in place and your website getting into shape gradually. They are great especially for building a small community online.

I have tried them all and they all work great. Just too good to be free. Maybe I'll write a book someday explaining in detail how to put them all together in building a simple website. Hmmm....any publishers out there who could help me out with that ?! ;-)