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My New Setup – Part 1

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I’ve had a blog for quite some time, and realized that I haven’t been posting as often as I could. Which is why I figured – why not post my progress on my current geeky endeavours?

Recently I have been having a lot of fun and putting a lot of man hours into setting up a new private testing environment on a cheap Compaq tower running a 3.2 GHZ AMD X2 processor. For a while, I have been using a lesser of the known Linux distributions called Scientific Linux. I chose this distro back then for two reasons. First because I am most comfortable with RHEL based distros. Second because it was in between the stability of Cent OS and staying more up to date with the likes of Fedora. I have ran Cent OS before, and I was unhappy with how long major updates made it into their repositories. Not a major factor for some people, and actually a good thing for most, but in my case it was not an ideal testing environment. Back then I didn’t think Fedora was a stable enough platform, but things have changed, and now I am all for Fedora 13.

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