[ale] linux infrastructure advice, opinions, suggestions

[Jay]

Sounds like an excellent thing to look into, maybe even make the 
library's digital media available from the school LAN..I like this idea!

Gentoo sounds interesting, I actually went out tonight to pick up a PC 
from a friend, and I'm going to install FreeBSD tomorrow evening and set 
it up so I can start getting familiar with a straight Unix environment.  
I'm force-feeding myself command line by administering my server for my 
website and such totally from ssh while I'm home for the summer.  The 
server runs in NC and I'm in CT, and I've made huge progress just by 
diving in and learning to do everything from command line, so I feel 
ready to tackle something like BSD :) 

How did I ever live with windows so long??

-Jay

Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>The school's library probably has a number of CD-ROM-based things lying
>around that people can only use by taking hold of the platter and
>stuffing it into a CD-ROM drive, one machine and user at a time.  If the
>licensing permits, you can copy those to drive space and share them
>out.  There may be little videos and stuff.  I used to do this kind of
>stuff all the time when I've run file servers in an organization.  Oh,
>and don't forget to serve up Linux distributions
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