Well this is the start of the ramblings of an IT professional that fills in his spare time turning wood. The main point of this blog is for me to store notes for myself about the attempt to use OpenSource software as much as possible and the tools I have found that help. There may also be a bit of woodturning sneak in for a peek from time to time.
I am a huge fan of Linux based systems, as my first jobs it IT were using AIX, Solaris and IRiX my experience of various Unix derivatives is extensive. Linux has presented a path where we can us commodity hardware and have a stable reliable server platform without the degree of investment that was required 20 year ago.
My Linux flavour of choice currently is Fedora for the cutting edge and Redhat Enterprise for the stable backend services. When it comes to commercial software on a Linux platform you are normally looking at full support on either Redhat of SuSe, and it just makes life easier if you work with a consistent platform rather than changing every time you install a new system.
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