Well I have recently built myself a small home server (AMD Sempron 3100+, 1GB of ram to be upgraded to 2GB very soon, SATA raid set-up).
Iv been working with Ubuntu server v9.04 recently, its my third attempt at a linux based OS but im just not getting a feel for it, I dont feel confident administering it, setting things up and generally getting it working, if something goes wrong its a pain to sort out/roll back.
My work although im in the networking and VoIP industry, we all use windows based platforms and in my 5 years in the working IT industry everything has been Windows based so im looking at using this at home aswel.
I want to use the box primaraly for a file server, for media storage/media streaming to PC's/laptops in the house, as a VPN server, as a torrent download box where I can connect to a web-based client from any machine, possibly for active directory, to create scripts to automate scheduled tasks and more.
Iv given ubuntu a good go but something im finding im spending hours trying to get things working.
Shame really as I dont mind the feel of Ubuntu but I just want to get the server up and running and enjoy it. I somehow feel aswel that any work in the future will be limited due to most of my work being done on the windows platform, and obviously this being a linux based OS it will restrict me in some way
Iv been working with Ubuntu server v9.04 recently, its my third attempt at a linux based OS but im just not getting a feel for it, I dont feel confident administering it, setting things up and generally getting it working, if something goes wrong its a pain to sort out/roll back.
My work although im in the networking and VoIP industry, we all use windows based platforms and in my 5 years in the working IT industry everything has been Windows based so im looking at using this at home aswel.
I want to use the box primaraly for a file server, for media storage/media streaming to PC's/laptops in the house, as a VPN server, as a torrent download box where I can connect to a web-based client from any machine, possibly for active directory, to create scripts to automate scheduled tasks and more.
Iv given ubuntu a good go but something im finding im spending hours trying to get things working.
Shame really as I dont mind the feel of Ubuntu but I just want to get the server up and running and enjoy it. I somehow feel aswel that any work in the future will be limited due to most of my work being done on the windows platform, and obviously this being a linux based OS it will restrict me in some way