Setting up a new server for the office for my personal projects.
Yep finally was able to get myself a decent new server for all my personal projects. Right now all the pages, isos, code is on multiple shared servers. I'm going to start to consolidate it on my new beefy machine.
I have a new Dell server Quad Core with 16 GB RAM, Dual GB Nic, 80 SAS drive and 1TB secondary SATAII drive, 2MB cache on each core. Loaded LAVALite on it yesterday and setup a default install of Apache, SSH, ProFTPD, PHP4, Ruby, Python, WebMin and will install MySQL on it today along with configuring SSH and Apache for virtual domains.
Once I am done, I'm going to start moving all my isos and update my blog with the new links as well as move over all my Linux game programming code and builds over to it. I am also going to move newlava.ansotech.com to it and setup my domain lavalinux.com to point to it.
I was able to accomplish alot yesterday and in just 3 or 4 hours thanks to Linux, Ubuntu and of course my LAVALite. I just love free software.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Removed 3.0 and 3.5
Removed the 3.0 and 3.5 builds of LAVA based on Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04.
The latest build of lava is 3.8 and is available on my download section on the right side of my blog.
I have decided to keep the 3.5 build of LAVA based on PCLinuxOS online as well.
The latest build of lava is 3.8 and is available on my download section on the right side of my blog.
I have decided to keep the 3.5 build of LAVA based on PCLinuxOS online as well.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
LAVALite Released
New LavaLite Builds available.
For those who do not know - I have created a version of my LAVA based on Xubuntu 8.04
You can find it here: http://lavalite.blogspot.com
YES I know Canonical is going to release a new version in a couple days but I wanted to get started and have an iso of my own now :) When Canonical releases their new build I get to start all over :)
My Current builds have context menu keys like : Convert Video to AVI, MPG, WMV, MP3, WMA, etc. I also added right clicks for converting image types and merge images to pdf, Add subtitles to AVI, rip out audio from avi.
I added all the same performance enhancements as in LAVA. Added vlc for media playing along with a whole slew of apps like guf firewall, OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 compatibility, Gisomount , PyNeighborhood and more...
Let me know what you think.
For those who do not know - I have created a version of my LAVA based on Xubuntu 8.04
You can find it here: http://lavalite.blogspot.com
YES I know Canonical is going to release a new version in a couple days but I wanted to get started and have an iso of my own now :) When Canonical releases their new build I get to start all over :)
My Current builds have context menu keys like : Convert Video to AVI, MPG, WMV, MP3, WMA, etc. I also added right clicks for converting image types and merge images to pdf, Add subtitles to AVI, rip out audio from avi.
I added all the same performance enhancements as in LAVA. Added vlc for media playing along with a whole slew of apps like guf firewall, OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 compatibility, Gisomount , PyNeighborhood and more...
Let me know what you think.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
NEW LAVALite Blog
Decided to start a new blog to highlight my LAVALite project. Now that I have finished my Gnome LiveCD I have spent the last two weeks playing with XFCE and have started building a new livecd I call LAVALite.
Yes Jim - I really like it. Took awhile for me to warm up with Xfce but now after a two weeks I decided to load it on my laptop as well as my development machine.
Some of the new changes I made on Xubuntu version:
mp3, wma play in audacious : also changed defaults in audacious to put up OSD, etc
avi, wmv, mov, rm, mpg, mpeg play in vlc: changed defaults so it has shoutcast in playlist for movies and videos, HAL devices, Repeat all, etc.
removed abiword, gnumeric and added writer, calc, impress, draw
pre-installed some firefox and thunderbird extensions. Same extensions I placed in LAVA build.
Added a slew of right click context sensitive right clicks - some include email file, print file, search for files, convert to avi, mpg, wmv, convert to bmp, png, jpg, run iso as live cd, join avi files, add subtitles to avi.
Added some iso apps, system apps, etc.
If you have been following my LAVA project you will notice very similar functionality to the LAVA CD build. I will post some screenshots as well as some of the code for some of the scripts I wrote in Thunar filemanager.
New Blog is http://lavalite.blogspot.com
Yes Jim - I really like it. Took awhile for me to warm up with Xfce but now after a two weeks I decided to load it on my laptop as well as my development machine.
Some of the new changes I made on Xubuntu version:
mp3, wma play in audacious : also changed defaults in audacious to put up OSD, etc
avi, wmv, mov, rm, mpg, mpeg play in vlc: changed defaults so it has shoutcast in playlist for movies and videos, HAL devices, Repeat all, etc.
removed abiword, gnumeric and added writer, calc, impress, draw
pre-installed some firefox and thunderbird extensions. Same extensions I placed in LAVA build.
Added a slew of right click context sensitive right clicks - some include email file, print file, search for files, convert to avi, mpg, wmv, convert to bmp, png, jpg, run iso as live cd, join avi files, add subtitles to avi.
Added some iso apps, system apps, etc.
If you have been following my LAVA project you will notice very similar functionality to the LAVA CD build. I will post some screenshots as well as some of the code for some of the scripts I wrote in Thunar filemanager.
New Blog is http://lavalite.blogspot.com
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Older LAVA Builds and XFCE LAVA
I'm going to remove the isos and links to the older builds of lava in the next couple days - Just a heads up.
Also I built 3 versions of XFCE which turned out really good. To be honest my first impression of XFCE was blah but it has grown on me. I had to tweak it out alot and add a bunch of right click context menus, change the media player, panels, etc to get more of what I wanted and throw in pyneighborhood and a host of other apps but when it was all said and done the xfce build is still super fast and I have it now on my development pc running strong. I'll try and upload the isos in the next couple days for my lavalite editon :)
Also I built 3 versions of XFCE which turned out really good. To be honest my first impression of XFCE was blah but it has grown on me. I had to tweak it out alot and add a bunch of right click context menus, change the media player, panels, etc to get more of what I wanted and throw in pyneighborhood and a host of other apps but when it was all said and done the xfce build is still super fast and I have it now on my development pc running strong. I'll try and upload the isos in the next couple days for my lavalite editon :)
LAVA 3.8 Gnome Dev Edition
Here is the Dev version of new lava Build.
You can find the link to the right along with the CD Version and the DVD Plus Edition.
Here is a visual guide and change log for the Plus Version.
http://newlava.ansotech.com/builds/gnome/3.8/Lava3.8-DevVersion.pdf
This edition is the Deluxe LAVA version. It has everything included in the CD version and the Plus edition but also has a huge list of software aimed at developers. I think it is the only edition of Linux out there that has a bunch of game engines already setup, configured and ready for coding with. I included crystal space, Panda3d and many others.
If you don't know what panda3d is, you should check it out.
Panda3d Website
This edition also comes with networking toolkits and utilities. It even includes airsnort and aircrack.
You can find the link to the right along with the CD Version and the DVD Plus Edition.
Here is a visual guide and change log for the Plus Version.
http://newlava.ansotech.com/builds/gnome/3.8/Lava3.8-DevVersion.pdf
This edition is the Deluxe LAVA version. It has everything included in the CD version and the Plus edition but also has a huge list of software aimed at developers. I think it is the only edition of Linux out there that has a bunch of game engines already setup, configured and ready for coding with. I included crystal space, Panda3d and many others.
If you don't know what panda3d is, you should check it out.
Panda3d Website
This edition also comes with networking toolkits and utilities. It even includes airsnort and aircrack.
LAVA 3.8 Gnome PLUS Edition
Here is the PLUS version of new lava Build.
You can find the link to the right along with the CD Version and the DVD Version for Developers.
Here is a visual guide and change log for the Plus Version.
http://newlava.ansotech.com/builds/gnome/3.8/Lava3.8-PlusVersion.pdf
You can find the link to the right along with the CD Version and the DVD Version for Developers.
Here is a visual guide and change log for the Plus Version.
http://newlava.ansotech.com/builds/gnome/3.8/Lava3.8-PlusVersion.pdf
LAVA 3.8 Gnome Edition
Finally uploaded the CD version of new lava Build.
You can find the link to the right along with the DVD versions of LAVA: Plus edition and Dev Edition.
Here is a visual guide and change log for the CD Version.
http://newlava.ansotech.com/builds/gnome/3.8/Lava3.8-CDVersion.pdf
You can find the link to the right along with the DVD versions of LAVA: Plus edition and Dev Edition.
Here is a visual guide and change log for the CD Version.
http://newlava.ansotech.com/builds/gnome/3.8/Lava3.8-CDVersion.pdf
Saturday, October 18, 2008
SYSCTL.conf
So the sysctl.conf file I posted in my last blog has gone threw some revisions and now I have a sysctl.conf file that seems to be very stable and gives better performance for higher end pcs. Any pc/server with 1GB or more. I added it to my lastest build of my custom ubuntu cd. I also added a bunch of new settings like setting more sensible defaults in hdparm.conf for more modern hardware - increasing the cpuFreq daemon cause I want my dual core to be at performance always, etc. I added them to my new build and also added them to my wiki site.
A wiki site is really a great tool. I have been using it extensively for the last couple months. I wiki everything I learn now so I can always come back to it. My custom apt-get scripts, my scripts to remove extra libs, languages, docs i don't need as well as the scripts that help me rebuild ubuntu.
I've also began using the wiki not only for my lava project but my game project and all the information I have learned on building email servers with ubuntu,fedora,suse,scalix, citadel. It really is helpful to know that once I successfully build or develop a new workflow, install, etc I can find it back in my wiki site without having to scour the internet and refind the information.
The wiki engine I choose was from mindtouch and it really is powerful and simple to use, plus they offer debs for ubuntu so setting it up was really easy. If you are in the market for a wiki, i recommend it.
http://wiki.developer.mindtouch.com/MindTouch_Deki/Download
A wiki site is really a great tool. I have been using it extensively for the last couple months. I wiki everything I learn now so I can always come back to it. My custom apt-get scripts, my scripts to remove extra libs, languages, docs i don't need as well as the scripts that help me rebuild ubuntu.
I've also began using the wiki not only for my lava project but my game project and all the information I have learned on building email servers with ubuntu,fedora,suse,scalix, citadel. It really is helpful to know that once I successfully build or develop a new workflow, install, etc I can find it back in my wiki site without having to scour the internet and refind the information.
The wiki engine I choose was from mindtouch and it really is powerful and simple to use, plus they offer debs for ubuntu so setting it up was really easy. If you are in the market for a wiki, i recommend it.
http://wiki.developer.mindtouch.com/MindTouch_Deki/Download
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