Linux
Linux@home
At home, I use Linux quite a lot. In fact, all these pages were
created using vi, NEdit
and M4, a standard UNIX macro processor.
I use Linux for all of my Internet access (the Internet is much more than just the 'Web!)
- News and mail are handled by my UUCP account
- FTP and Web-browsing are handled by my ISDN gateway machine
My collection of computers has been largely determined by the amount
of spare parts that I could get my hands on. Well, at least they are
all connected through some NE2000 ethernet cards and a piece of coax,
making for a nice play-LAN. Here's a list:
hal
My 'main' machine, hal.iaehv.nl, is an old
486DX2/80 with 24MB running Linux 2.0.33. It connects
My Little LAN &tm; to the rest of the world; it has a
UUCP connection for mail and news
(I use C-News,
as well as ISDN with
IP-Masquerading (NAT for non-Linux
fanatics) for cybersurfing. In addition to all that, it runs my intranet
(using Apache of course).
r2d2
r2d2, an old '386DX40 with only 8MB, currently runs Linux 2.0.29,
Apache and a load of other stuff. It
doesn't quite have the memory and CPU to run X, but it's still quite
happy to do all kinds of maintenance chores, or playing loghost. I keep
it mainly for sentimental reasons ;)
Actually, those old '386 machines were quite powerful.
But with those 16-bit toy Operating Systems, you don't get to appreciate that.
That's why you need to install a Real Operating System (UNIX of course).
c3p0
c3p0 is a Pentium 200/MMX with 64MB, running
RedHat Linux 5.1. I'm still playing
with RedHat, since all my previous Linux-experience is based on Slackware
distributions. Especially the use of RPM
is quite new to me.
Compiling and installing KDE was my
first encounter with the peculiarities of RPM. After a while, you start
appreciating RPM and tend to forget about some of the 'strange' concepts.
Read all about my Adventures with RedHat Linux 5.1
in my upcoming book ;)
orac
My latest and greatest toy; a nice and shiny P-II with lots of nice features.
It runs FreeBSD,
RedHat Linux and occasionally even Windows '95
(I have to admit that Windows '95 is a better games-platform).
Even when running Windows, I can still enjoy my X Window tools using an
evaluation copy of StarNet's X Window System server
(X-Win32) for MS-Windows.
other toys
I have a terminal server (LTS300) attached to the network. This is a
great toy, and it's even useful at times
(for example when playing with microcontroller-boards based on the
8051).
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