It’s (not) Alright

This has been one of the most tiring things for me… The problem was simple one, but as usual, simple problems are harder to find than the tougher ones. It was router port ip problem… But now, I have got it working at last. With a lot of help from Kalpik and Mehul. (Check their blogs out… they are good, though Kalpik is not writing anything for now….) That means 3 down 2 more to go… Got the Webmin, SSH and Apache access… Bind and one more thing to get done…

Aditya

\\ tags: Internet, Linux, openSUSE, Webmaster, Website

I know I have not been writing the posts with the same regularity that I used to… but I think that it will be regualr from now on. ie:- I imight be regularly irregular. The reason is my college. After 0900-1630 hours of college, I get so tired that it will be only the weekend when I will be able to write posts from now on. Maybe I will write 2 and schedule them to be published late in the week.

That aside, I have been using arch linux almost all the time now when I am not doing any ‘work’. For daily use, I have set up the system quite well ( this is where I praise myself ). But I have not used the ‘all but kitchen sink’ method of openSUSE, so when I want to do something out of the normal way (normal to me) then I use openSUSE.

But as I am using it, I am beggining to feel the difference. Arch is really light. True that I don’t see the usual polished look that I am familier with openSUSE, but the speed of booting and starting any application is just awesome and fast.

I have not tried the all famous KDE MOD yet. It is a modular form of the popular K Desktop Environment. Everyone without the luxery of the heavy processor and RAM will admit KDE to be a bloat. From whatever reviews I have read about the Arch KDE Mod, I think it is way lighter than the normal KDE I don’t like.

Right now, I have quite well setup going on. I have not installed KDE yet, but I am going to try it and that too 4.1. Once I know from enough people that it is stable enough for daily use. And I am looking forward to it.

Aditya

\\ tags: Arch, Internet, Linux

Over the past 2-3 weeks, I had been listening to all my friend from #think-digit channel (IRC) on freenode.net. All of them had were discussing Arch linux at that time. I thought it to be a hype at that time. I was (and still am) perfectly happy with my openSUSE install. Even then, I decided to try it out and installed it over vitrualBox under openSUSE. I installed the base system and played around a bit, but due to lack of time, I did not go much further and left it like that.

Yesterday though, I could not sleep and did not have any projects at hand, so I thought about giving arch another try. This time, by installing on a hard disk. I did that and then slept. Today, I configured the rest of the part by reading it from the Arch Linux begginers guide. The guide is through and very helpful. No need to look elsewhere. I did not install GRUB on MBR. I like the SUSE GRUB. What I did was, I installed it on the partition itself, did not flag it as boot and created an entry in SUSE’s GRUB to point to the menu.lst file on the Arch partition. -> End result :- It works!

Then I went on and installed the xorg packages and Gnome. Right now, I am installing extra packages for gnome and will move to firefox and pidgin, etc, later on. Right now, I like this. It gives you ‘COMPLETE’ control of the system. I like that. So, from now on, 5th distribution has been added to my list for now. (The other 4 being openSUSE, Zenwalk, Knoppix and SliTaZ). I will keep experimenting with this for a while. More posts to follow with a review maybe…

Links

• Arch Linux.
• Arch Linux Begginers Guide.

Aditya

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This is the second post about remote access to your PC. I installed the application Webmin yesterday. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

In short, it is the administrator control panel for your linux PC. Now, I can access the PC from anywhere. Now is the time to show off

Aditya

\\ tags: Internet, Linux, Remote Access, System Configuration, Tools