I’m still unsure with which distro to use for my not-so-new-not-so-old home desktop.

My current HW is running on XP simply because I’m not the only one who uses it but now that my mom is getting the hang of using her notebook and my dad has his own HW too, I get to have the liberty to choose what to do with my pc. Yeah!

Anyway, what I need now are suggestions. I haven’t gone through a list of distros that might interest me so maybe you guys would like to share some. I rarely use GUI for Linux so I’m not sure which one am I going to be comfortable. And whenever I’d use GUI, all’s there is Gnome.

Also, I saw from one of my posts that I’m not into aero-feel. Guess what, I’m considering it this time. It’s like mantra for me to feel goody goody after a day’s work.

To give you an insight of what I usually do:

• I mostly watch TV series and movies
• Do torrent downloads
• Seldom play computer arcade games
• Browse the net ’till I drop
• Blog as often as I can
• Burn lots of DVDs
• Read eBook

And here’s what I plan to add:

• Improve this blog site, that would mean setting up xampp with WordPress
• Go over Java again but not necessarily like the old times, with this I’d need Eclipse IDE
• Maybe continue with Perl (I’m still not sure though)
• Continue my pursuit of using Gimp for digital photos that I edit, hehe

So far that’s what I have in mind. Specs of computer transferred to my possession are:

• Intel Pentium 4 (2.4 GHz) Hyper-threading
• 2GB RAM
• 80GB primary HD
• 128MB VGA Card (forgot the brand) tsk! 256MB Nvidia Graphics Card

That’s it! Hope I’d get responses. before June 11. Yes, I have a deadline. Because I need to do file transfers (a bunch of them) and physical movements of computers in the house.

jah!

I got cranky with all the inconsistency that I went through during my deployment. But here are some of what woke me up big time:

• That IPA-client can’t pull keytab from master server;
• That IPA doesn’t like incorrect hostname. It has to be the right one up to the domain level;
• That IPA uses A and PTR record when transferring user ticket for single sign on (SSO) be possible;
• That IPA can’t do SSO on some machines for some strange reason considering they have correct hostname and DNS records. (That I ought to find out.)

That’s all for now.

Just learned something interesting.

That the default directory for MySQL installed in FreeBSD is /var/db/mysql and for Linux it’s in /var/lib/mysql.

I once asked:

When you restart samba, how many daemons do you see?
The answer is 2. There’s smbd and nmbd.

But when asked how many daemons comprised samba?
The answer is 3. smbd, nmbd and winbindd.

The first 2 daemons run in a linux server installed with samba package. On the other hand, windbindd in Windows NT box meaning it runs in client-side.

Just a few (minor) things to remind us of. =D

Yesterday, I subscribed linux servers to an IPA server and actually tested logging in using my IPA account.

IPA (Identity, Policy, Audit) is the AD (Active Directory) counterpart for nix machines. And it’s really cool subscribing linux machines via console. hehe.

As for IPA’s pre-requisites, it’s A and PTR records. Aside from that, it requires python-ldap.

I haven’t setup an IPA server but maybe I’ll try. For now, subscribing clients to masters is my role. It’s still nice because I get to spend a lot of time seeing black screens. Although sometimes I wish I have an additional display to accommodate all of my sessions instead of ‘minimize’ then ‘restore’. I like seeing all of them. hahaha! Sorry, an addict talking rubbish.

Anyway, version is Red Hat Enterprise IPA v1 EL5. (still young).

You can refer to these pages for other information that you may want to know:

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/ipa/

and

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel5-ipa-1-errata.html