Recently I have installed Linux Ubuntu on my mom’s computer, replacing the old Windows XP. Seems enough for googling and mailing that she is doing. BTW, it works just fine after few small tweaks, like getting rid of too-fresh Unity interface and disabling awful overlay scrollbars (that appear only when you mouse over the edge of a window). Anyway, in the process, I had to read some information about Ubuntu and one of the questions was – whether to install 32-bit or 64-bit one. Jumping to the end – I installed 32-bit, to exclude any possibility of applications/drivers incompatibility (search...

Since all my code is stored in Subversion, which is currently installed on Windows Home Server, I had to check how to install a Subversion server on Amahi server and how to migrate all my repositories there. The installation is pretty straight forward, everything is done form command line. 1. Install subversion: yum install subversion 2. For some reason SQLite was outdated for me, so verify that you have the latest version: yum update sqlite 3. Create a root folder for all your repositories. It can be any name and any location. I choose to...

Brief overview: this is about Linux Home Server, called Amahi, which I’m trying to figure out whether it suits my needs and I can migrate to it from Windows Home Server. Currently, the server is installed in VIrtualBox. The task: simulate an unrecoverable hard disk failure of one of non-system disks. E.g. one of the disks that contain your data and participate in mirroring, managed by Greyhole. Environment: VirtualBox with Fedora 12 and Amahi on top. 3 hard disks attached to the virtual machine. One is system disk, second and...