Anyone remember Stormix Linux?

@ajin.c you bet. We are here to help 🙂

I think that they remain pretty tough for developers still too. Although a more traditional Linux desktop will be great for that. Mint, OpenSuse or Fedora make awesome development workstations.

And then we need to configure the drives via the SmartArray BIOS.

@scottalanmiller Yeah just saw that when I clicked on it.

I told @mike-ralston that downloading any Linux isos via mirrors is not a good idea. Torrents for those are infinitely faster and more reliable.

I'm actually looking forward to this LTS as a possible every day desktop for myself. I've never been fully on board with taking the plunge, but the increasing irrelevance of the underlying OS is making using a stable and secure platform that much more attractive to me.

Find it odd you have GNOME at the bottom. Again though, I haven't given them enough or really any time as of late, to have an opinion. GNOME at least was my favorite but they could have ruined it in recent years.

I tried moving us to a TS environment about 4 years ago - I couldn't get past the thin clients 'flashing' on websites that used Adobe Flash. When moving between screens on our EMR of the time the whole window would flash white before going to the next screen. I posted about it on SW... someone posted a reason why (can't recall now). Never had the problem when using a Windows machine as a terminal into the TS.

In the end it worked out since our current EMR strictly forbids TS.

@scottalanmiller oops...

@RoguePacket said:

Erg, looks like the class starts " 3rd Quarter 2014"—

Yeah, just an early announcement at this point.

@NetworkNerd said:

@scottalanmiller said:

It is on www.scottalanmiller.com/linux

Don't have the exact link where I am at the moment.

There's a TON of good content in there.

Thanks!

@Dashrender said:

I'm also setting this up inside an ESXi VM.. do I need to install VM tools?

Yes

It's been a long time for this thread. But since it was originally posted I have been working on SAM's Guide to Linux Administration.

Setting Postfix up as a smarthost's pretty straightforward. I've done it in reverse as an inbound mail gateway instead of using an MS Exchange Edge Transport role. I'm guessing you'd be allowing access based on IP?

While you want to keep it simple, I can't stress strongly enough to use at least outbound spam filtering. That way, in case you do somehow start churning out spam, it'll get caught before your IP gets blacklisted.

Solydx is another Xfce distro too.

Having a MediaWiki walkthrough lab project would probably be a good idea.

@ajstringham said:

Would they look a little and feel a lot different on a touchscreen device? Yes. But for initial stages that would be awesome.

What benefit do you see to Android on a non-handheld device? It's a handheld focused OS. It's purpose is mobility. Putting it on a desktop just seems like a horrible desktop experience. What's the draw?