LAVA is about to turn 3.0
After a month or so of playing with all the 7.10 features and searching the net for the best tweaks and add-ons, I am about to release a new version of LAVA based on Gutsy. Check back here in the next couple days and check it out.
Some of the new features
1) More built in nautilus scripts - context sensitive
2) Longer list of included software
3) Main menu replaced with gnome main menu
4) OpenOffice customized for greater speed and automatically set to use Office formats as default.
5) Alot of performance tweaks - customized sysctl.conf, preload, prelink, etc.
5) Compiz-Fusion add-ons and customizations
6) Firefox add-ons and performance additions
7) Flash 9
and more...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Introducing Ubuntu
I went to California this weekend and although it was not a business trip, I took my laptop in case I need to login and do some work. I stayed at my relatives house and alot of my family from California came over to visit. I really was laid back and not in 'computer mode' when a cousin of mine asked to see the magazine I had in my bag. It was a Linux Format mag. He began asking me questions about it and as I talked he began to see my passion for Linux in general. It was funny cause most of my cousins had brought their laptops as they were going to stay the weekend with me since we hardly see eachother. Since they were interested, I pulled out my laptop with Ubuntu loaded on and booted it up. Within minutes, everyone was excited about the eyecandy and the quick response. Needless to say everyone in Cali, is downloading the ISOs of ubuntu today.
It's cool to see people excited over free software. One of them even have an Apple Powerbook he purchased just recently. I just told them, if you can boot up the livecd and access your hardware then install ubuntu will probably be worth wild as it does everything I ever need from an OS and more. I of course gave them my update information in case they run into any problems or have any questions. I'm looking forward to hearing how they faired.
It's cool to see people excited over free software. One of them even have an Apple Powerbook he purchased just recently. I just told them, if you can boot up the livecd and access your hardware then install ubuntu will probably be worth wild as it does everything I ever need from an OS and more. I of course gave them my update information in case they run into any problems or have any questions. I'm looking forward to hearing how they faired.
Friday, January 25, 2008
I'm Back!
So it's been quite awhile since I disappeared. BEEN BUSY!!!!!
I was able to move most of my terminal servers over to modified version of Ubuntu running a modified version of FreeNX. That was most fun. Now Windows users can login to our Linux servers and run Linux apps and print to their printers without installing any software on their desktop or loading any java classes in their browsers. Everything runs in memory on the Windows pcs. The client is a standalone 1.4 mb exe.
Now I'm going to recreate the server installs I made using the newer 7.10 as a basis instead of Fiesty.
Along with moving people over to Linux, I was able to move the majority of my servers from our downtown location and collocate with another company near O'hare. For me it means better partnerships as well as over the board services. Within a week, I was able to provide my clients with bandwidth up to 10mbs a sec per server.
It's funny, I have come from a Windows background. Microsoft Windows has always been my bread and butter. Everything at one time in my company was running Windows, from the servers, routers, desktops. But now, those ISA servers are Linux Endian machines. The Exchange servers are Linux Citadel machines. My web servers which ran IIS, are now apache. And my fileserver running Windows 2000 adv server is now running Samba and Swat with AD integration. Now some of the terminal servers are now being converted to NX servers. Maybe by the end of the year I will be able to move the SQL servers to MySQL.
It's been 5 years since I started this journey and I have learned alot along the way. I guess I am just shocked that I could technically build a datacenter on almost complete opensource, especially when I was doing it for so long on Windows.
I was able to move most of my terminal servers over to modified version of Ubuntu running a modified version of FreeNX. That was most fun. Now Windows users can login to our Linux servers and run Linux apps and print to their printers without installing any software on their desktop or loading any java classes in their browsers. Everything runs in memory on the Windows pcs. The client is a standalone 1.4 mb exe.
Now I'm going to recreate the server installs I made using the newer 7.10 as a basis instead of Fiesty.
Along with moving people over to Linux, I was able to move the majority of my servers from our downtown location and collocate with another company near O'hare. For me it means better partnerships as well as over the board services. Within a week, I was able to provide my clients with bandwidth up to 10mbs a sec per server.
It's funny, I have come from a Windows background. Microsoft Windows has always been my bread and butter. Everything at one time in my company was running Windows, from the servers, routers, desktops. But now, those ISA servers are Linux Endian machines. The Exchange servers are Linux Citadel machines. My web servers which ran IIS, are now apache. And my fileserver running Windows 2000 adv server is now running Samba and Swat with AD integration. Now some of the terminal servers are now being converted to NX servers. Maybe by the end of the year I will be able to move the SQL servers to MySQL.
It's been 5 years since I started this journey and I have learned alot along the way. I guess I am just shocked that I could technically build a datacenter on almost complete opensource, especially when I was doing it for so long on Windows.
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