Setting up my home server...

I've installed Ubuntu on a Virtual Machine with VirtualBox and installed Apache+Php+MySQL+SSH+FTP... etc. It's my development server. By the moment, I have nothing. I've installed Wordpress so I expect in a couple of months to have a new blog with my own server.... I don't know. I don't expect a especific result. I'm doing just for fun.

I like development.I like to try to do things, although I didn't finished anything, I enjoy the travel.

If you want, you can see my home server. It has a standard Apache 2 start page.

http://tecnocriollo.homelinux.net

If it doesn't work, is because I've shut down the computer or the VM because sometimes I travel or simply for cutting energy costs.

Some ideas about my home server:
- An J2EE application server (Tomcat? Glassfish?)
- Mono .NET
- Ruby on Rails
- Python + Django
- My own developed websites and tools for it.

Well... I hope that my enthusiasm take more time that previous attempts...

I don't hate Microsoft

I like Open Source Technologies, and I try to use a lot. But I don't like when peoples tries to satanize something because some people use it. I think that is very stupid to create a wall and put some people on one side or another.

I want to tell that I don't hate Microsoft and I don't hate Linux. Microsoft products are good in things that Linux World products don't, like user experience and researching in things that costs a lot, like Natal project. And Linux World products are good in things that Microsoft products don't, like servers, application servers and firewalls.

I'm working in a solution that uses both worlds. There're some Tomcat Servers that runs on Linux with Apache CXF Web Services. And there're some Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers thats runs ASP.NET pages with IIS. That pages uses the CXF Web Services without problems.

What are the advantages? Linux has very good monitoring capabilities, and have very few faults. But at the presentation layer, ASP.NET makes development very easy and its controls offers a more powerful user experience.

So. Think about it. There're no sides. There're tools.

Reflexión sobre Linux y Microsoft

Linux es la escuela, Microsoft es la empresa
Linux es experimento, Microsoft es ejecución sin riesgos
Linux trabaja por amor al arte, Microsoft te da la plata
Linux fue la polola de la U, Microsoft es la señora de la pega
... Pero Linux es la amante que le chupa toda la plata a Microsoft. :-P

10 distros Linux segun MundoGeek

Como no he escrito nada. Para comenzar a rellenar este blog les doy un link de Mundo Geek que habla acerca de las distros más populares basándose en un análisis de DistroWatch.

Segun el artículo, las distribuciones Linux más populares son:

• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• OpenSuSe
• Mint
• Debian
• Mandriva
• PCLinuxOS
• Puppy Linux
• Sabayon Linux
• CentOS

Se nota que estaba alejado del mundo Linux. No había escuchado de Mint ni de Sabayon. Las cuales, según lo que leí del artículo, me parecen muy interesantes.

Las 10 distros Linux más populares desde Mundo Geek.