01.08.06

Ubuntu, Day 2

Posted in Linux at 11:28 pm by mshiltonj

I fiddled around with the system some more today. I’m still loving it.
I realized that the basic install didn’t give me mysql or apache.
A couple google searches pointed me to the Ubuntu Packages web site. It really, truly only took a few minutes to install devhelp, mysql, subversion, apache (w/ mod_php and mod_per), eclipse […]

01.07.06

Fedora–; Ubuntu++;

Posted in Linux at 11:39 pm by mshiltonj

I reinstalled Linux on my primary home computer last night. I switched to Ubuntu from Fedora.
Overall, I’m fairly pleased.
With Fedora, I got tired of getting stuck in rpm dependency hell when I wanted to install something outside the norm. In order to get all the multimedia packages and some other software I wanted onto […]