Jody
10-23-2004, 09:56 PM
At first i thought setting up a linux box to run common services such as
1. http
2. php
3. mysql
4. email
5. ftp
would have been a relatively easy task. Was i ever mistaken.
I started off with slackware. The installation went ok except mysql and php, although selected to be installed, did not. Mysql took me two weeks to find out why it refused to start, required so many files to be edited it just wasnt funny but eventually started and ran. Next up was php. For some reason unknown to me and a few other linux ppl, this just wasnt a happening thing. After removing and re installing 659,3972,612 times, i was told to try fedora. So, good bye slack and hello fedora core 2.
Ahh,, what a pretty install interface fedora has. Unfortunately, same thing. I select the components i would like installed and of course, they arent installed at all. **sigh**,, here we go again, time to modify another 683,716,832, 863 files to get mysql to work only to no avail. Thas ok though, i'll leave that one for now and look at the other services. I really would like proftpd instead of vsftpd. Wrong... no way will proftpd run or even appear as installed. I figure ive really chosen a winner here..
I was really hoping to have a linux server up and running to put online but the way things are going, the only way i am going to be able to host the information i need to is to run windows. Ive spent 2 months on two different versions of linux now only to be sadly disappointed with both releases of linux. I can honestly say there is no release of linux thats easy. Windows takes all of a few hours to get online and happening with preferred services and although id rather run linux in a production environment, I dont have another 20 years to get a few simple services to run correctly.
I'll keep linux on a standalone box so mebbee i can keep learning little bits but i really am put off by the way linux has been packaged and marketed.
My favorite distro... Windows..!! its sooo easy...
1. http
2. php
3. mysql
4. email
5. ftp
would have been a relatively easy task. Was i ever mistaken.
I started off with slackware. The installation went ok except mysql and php, although selected to be installed, did not. Mysql took me two weeks to find out why it refused to start, required so many files to be edited it just wasnt funny but eventually started and ran. Next up was php. For some reason unknown to me and a few other linux ppl, this just wasnt a happening thing. After removing and re installing 659,3972,612 times, i was told to try fedora. So, good bye slack and hello fedora core 2.
Ahh,, what a pretty install interface fedora has. Unfortunately, same thing. I select the components i would like installed and of course, they arent installed at all. **sigh**,, here we go again, time to modify another 683,716,832, 863 files to get mysql to work only to no avail. Thas ok though, i'll leave that one for now and look at the other services. I really would like proftpd instead of vsftpd. Wrong... no way will proftpd run or even appear as installed. I figure ive really chosen a winner here..
I was really hoping to have a linux server up and running to put online but the way things are going, the only way i am going to be able to host the information i need to is to run windows. Ive spent 2 months on two different versions of linux now only to be sadly disappointed with both releases of linux. I can honestly say there is no release of linux thats easy. Windows takes all of a few hours to get online and happening with preferred services and although id rather run linux in a production environment, I dont have another 20 years to get a few simple services to run correctly.
I'll keep linux on a standalone box so mebbee i can keep learning little bits but i really am put off by the way linux has been packaged and marketed.
My favorite distro... Windows..!! its sooo easy...