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My linux box is called titan. titan is a debian box.
Debian has been voted the best distribution
for the year 2003. I have tried out a lot of different distributions(i.e. redhat, suse, gentoo), but I feel debian is the best. The other
distribution which shows a lot of promise is gentoo, as it allows awesome optimisation. If you are a starting up with linux, I would recommend
you start with redhat, unfortunately, redhat is not freely available anymore.
I started out this project from scratch. I did a netinstall of the stable debian base, and then built my system from there by adding whatever
packages I needed using the fabulous apt-get. Linuxgazette published a fabulous two part (part 1,
part 2) tutorial on apt-get, and I feel it is
a must read if you are starting with debian . My only gripe with Debian is that they dont release the latest packages, but you can always
find the packages built by somebody else. I recently bought a domain name, and pretty soon will have email support too ;)
The different things I have done are -
- Java Support - This was the first thing I did after finishing setting up my basic install with KDE3.1.1. I was trying
to follow the Debian Java Faq, but then I
found this amazing script which automates the creation of debian packages. Get it from
here
- Apache Webserver - I integrated tomcat into my apache webserver so I have jsp and servlets support. It also has php and perl support.
- Email/webmail - I have exim as my MTA, use pine(I had to build the package, as it has licencing issues), and will shortly have squirrelmail for webmail.
- more coming soon...
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