Posts from — February 2009

In the last post, I mentioned meeting my old pal Tux.

Now back to coniguring the machine. I will be using the test server for Drupal websites, Rails projects and possibly Lift projects. Also, I love Punjabi and I love Unicode. So I’m going to try to make things as Unicode friendly as they can be.

Let’s start.

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I hardly get enough time away from my Mac machines, so I planned to get back in touch with the penguin, and to build a test server.

My plan was to install Xen, and then run a Linux instance on top of it. However the only spare machine was a G5 Xserve, I could not find any information of Xen on ppc processor.

Choosing Linux flavour for ppc wasn’t easy either. Most of the open source linux flavours have stopped supporting ppc, as it seems like a dying platform. Red Hat and Suse seem to support the architecture in their enterprise versions. I did’nt wanted to run YDL, the only flavour I could find truely supporting ppc architecture.

Finally, I decided to go ahead with the Ubuntu 8.04 Server community version for ppc.

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