1 is A | 2 is B

I live in a studio appartment with a plant and 3 computers:

• iMac G5 first generation, 1Gb ram , 80Gb disk, 17″ display, OSX 10.3 Panther
  • I use this box as my desktop workstation, which is silly consider the display is gorgeous
  • Plans for this box? possibly dual boot kubuntu with xgl/compiz…delishious
• Celeron D 2.96GHz, 1Gb Ram, GeForce 5200, pcHDTV 3000, 250Gb Maxtor HD, Kubuntu Dapper Drake with XGL/compiz
  • This is the first computer I ever built
  • It’s purpose is to be a media center with MythTV in HD, all my music (say good-bye to CDs), photos, news, torrents, and all that good stuff
  • Plans for this box? still have to get MythTV working. Would like a backup system for some of the data on it. Clean up all the non-media software.
• PII 200MHz, 133 Mb Ram, ATI 3D Rage II, 40Gb disk, 2 Nic cards, Ubuntu Server
  • I have had DSL successfully installed on this box and recently switched to ubuntu server
  • Had lots of trouble getting the graphics to run on the Rage II, finally gave up and am forging forward in the command line
  • My plans for this box is a gateway and server for my mini-home network. I have a lot to learn and am looking forward to becoming a terminal comando.

I have been using linux heavily since December and would like to think I am just beyond the noob stage.

This project started with installation of the os. I first started with VectorLinux but decided I’d like to become expert with what I know before moving out to other things. I attempted many Xubuntu installs with varying degrees of success. The alternate CD was very helpful for my low memory enviroment. The boot loader would always have fatal errors unless I partitioned the disk using the LVM partitioner. The problem I was not able to work around was getting x to boot. The only time I was able to successfully boot x was in Graphics Safe Mode on the live CD. I was unable to replicate those conditions with the harddrive install.

I finally decided to get friendly with the command line and install the ubuntu server. I figure that since most of what i’ll need to know i’ll have to learn anyways, why not just learn how to do it on the command line to begin with. i’m not scared of the command line anyways, and am pretty good with vi so I have great hope.

I’m waiting for the machine’s second Ethernet Nic card to come in the mail and as soon as it does i’ll begin in earnest with the software and network configurations.

for preparation i’ve been getting good info from the ubuntu help docs and this general linux home network howto.

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