What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dafyre mint FTW 5ever.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally got my home server rebuilding with Linux Mint 18, and turning it into a KVM server. :-D...
Mint on a server?
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@coliver why not?
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally got my home server rebuilding with Linux Mint 18, and turning it into a KVM server. :-D...
Mint on a server?
Agreed, why not a more normal Linux like Ubuntu or CentOS?
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@Dashrender I've used it as a server base for years and never had any problems. Given I've never done it in a work environment but I find it's ease of use and familiar GUI quite refreshing. I love running a mint (server) @ home.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally got my home server rebuilding with Linux Mint 18, and turning it into a KVM server. :-D...
Mint on a server?
Agreed, why not a more normal Linux like Ubuntu or CentOS?
Oh myy, a wild @Dashrender appeared!
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@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender I've used it as a server base for years and never had any problems. Given I've never done it in a work environment but I find it's ease of use and familiar GUI quite refreshing. I love running a mint (server) @ home.
That's all well and fine, and you can probably get away with that on your desktop - but if you're trying to do IT, why would you do something you shouldn't be doing in a production environment?
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@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver why not?
It's a really great Desktop OS but being an Ubuntu distribution doesn't give you the best learning platform for running actual enterprise servers. Something like CentOS or OpenSUSE would be much better for learning Linux Server Administration.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver why not?
It's a really great Desktop OS but being an Ubuntu distribution doesn't give you the best learning platform for running actual enterprise servers. Something like CentOS or OpenSUSE would be much better for learning Linux Server Administration.
Ubuntu is Debian-based and as good as a server OS as everything else. The question is: What makes a Linux distro a server distro? Things like stable kernels, stable packets, available support, good documentation etc. are comming to mind here.
CentOS is a decent RedHat based distribution and it isn't any better or worser than Debian-based Ubuntu, IMHO. Mint on the other hand, well, you might have issues with some unstable or at least not well tested packages.
If you want to go the Debian-route, skip Mint and use Ubuntu or Ubuntu Server.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally got my home server rebuilding with Linux Mint 18, and turning it into a KVM server. :-D...
Mint on a server?
Yes... Mint on a Server... I view it is no different than installing Hyper-V on Windows 8.1. I or Server 2012 Standard. I still
needwant the GUI on this server... and I Like Mint 18 anyhow... so why not? -
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally got my home server rebuilding with Linux Mint 18, and turning it into a KVM server. :-D...
Mint on a server?
Yes... Mint on a Server... I view it is no different than installing Hyper-V on Windows 8.1. I or Server 2012 Standard. I still
needwant the GUI on this server... and I Like Mint 18 anyhow... so why not?That's fine. So you'll be using the server for more then just a hypervisor then. That's all I was wondering.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally got my home server rebuilding with Linux Mint 18, and turning it into a KVM server. :-D...
Mint on a server?
Yes... Mint on a Server... I view it is no different than installing Hyper-V on Windows 8.1. I or Server 2012 Standard. I still
needwant the GUI on this server... and I Like Mint 18 anyhow... so why not?That's fine. So you'll be using the server for more then just a hypervisor then. That's all I was wondering.
Yeah. Just keeping ready for action in case I need to use it for something.
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Waiting for the family to arrive from Houston. They have been driving all day.
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Setting up a Surface Pro 4... lost power at the initial start up. Our relationship is off to a rocky start.
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@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Setting up a Surface Pro 4... lost power at the initial start up. Our relationship is off to a rocky start.
I told ya
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@Minion-Queen That you did. I can't fault you for the warning. It's impossible to convince the execs they want something else now... They tend to listen to our CTO who actually managed to get ransomware on his Macbook Pro...
On the plus side it needed enterprise installed anyways.
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How did he do that?
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@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Setting up a Surface Pro 4... lost power at the initial start up. Our relationship is off to a rocky start.
And this is likely the high point.
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@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen That you did. I can't fault you for the warning. It's impossible to convince the execs they want something else now... They tend to listen to our CTO who actually managed to get ransomware on his Macbook Pro...
On the plus side it needed enterprise installed anyways.
I think that there is a law that you can't have a title like CTO and use a Mac anything.
