The most basic thing one needs to learn when setting up Slackware (on a VPS, especially) is how to get various packages and install them. This is most easily done via the wget and installpkg commands. http://slackware.com/getslack has a list of mirrors where you can get slackware packages. Packages will be found within a directory [...]
Tags: Slackware
Posted on June 1st, 2009 in Hosting, Linux, OS, VPS | No Comments »
On VPS hosting, using an administration panel (e.g. cPanel, Plesk, Interworx, DirectAdmin, etc…) together with a distro such as CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu is the popular choice. This is the conservative decision, but sometimes this just hampers flexibility to an unacceptable degree. You are often tightly constrained regarding the versions of software you can use. In my present [...]
Tags: Slackware
Posted on June 1st, 2009 in Hosting, Linux, OS, VPS | No Comments »
This is the first of a multi-part blog series where I discuss Microsoft’s battle on 3 fronts with 3 of its most important strategic competitors. I believe everyone knows which 2 companies Microsoft are competing against on the first two fronts, but very few pundits seem to have caught on as to how important, strategic [...]
Tags: Apple, Microsoft, OS X, Windows
Posted on March 17th, 2009 in OS | No Comments »
The latest buzz around Solaris has whet my appetite for a Sun technology again. With the massive mind and market share that Linux – now virtually mainstream – enjoys, OpenSolaris’ seemingly hopeless position as being #3 behind an already distant second placer (BSD) on the open source OS front made me think that Sun might [...]
Tags: opensolaris, os, solaris
Posted on May 30th, 2008 in OS, Solaris | 1 Comment »
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