Fun with Fedora
I've been working at a company for a little over 2 years now that is a microsoft sycophant company. When it doesn't use microsoft, it uses the biggest, least agile vendor it can find.
I didn't realize how much working with microsoft killed my computer interest. In the past few weeks I've been working on upgrading and redesigning my home systems. I had a fairly archaic Fedora Core 9 home server which I rarely used except to run Alpine on (to report my spam easily.) I've decided it is time to go massively virtual.
I built a new VirtualBox virtual machine on my laptop. I migrated the FC9 box from a standalone server to the VM (not that hard really, just some dump/restore actions and voila.)
The new task is to create a new FC13 box as the host OS. Build a couple of VMs under it with different functions. I should be able to upgrade the host OS and guest OSs on a different schedule and that should make keeping up with updates and new releases earlier, since I won't have to whack everything at one time.
I also think I'll take this opportunity to separate my user services from my system. I might even run Ubuntu for my surfing OS and FC13 guests for DNS, SMTP, and squid. Plus who knows maybe even adventurous enough to put IPS on a VM too.
Here is the Google Doc that is tracking my technical progress:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaMcNzMelT4JZGM3cXR4N2NfMzM4ZHdmNDRoZ20&hl=en
I didn't realize how much working with microsoft killed my computer interest. In the past few weeks I've been working on upgrading and redesigning my home systems. I had a fairly archaic Fedora Core 9 home server which I rarely used except to run Alpine on (to report my spam easily.) I've decided it is time to go massively virtual.
I built a new VirtualBox virtual machine on my laptop. I migrated the FC9 box from a standalone server to the VM (not that hard really, just some dump/restore actions and voila.)
The new task is to create a new FC13 box as the host OS. Build a couple of VMs under it with different functions. I should be able to upgrade the host OS and guest OSs on a different schedule and that should make keeping up with updates and new releases earlier, since I won't have to whack everything at one time.
I also think I'll take this opportunity to separate my user services from my system. I might even run Ubuntu for my surfing OS and FC13 guests for DNS, SMTP, and squid. Plus who knows maybe even adventurous enough to put IPS on a VM too.
Here is the Google Doc that is tracking my technical progress:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaMcNzMelT4JZGM3cXR4N2NfMzM4ZHdmNDRoZ20&hl=en
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