08-26-2013
The requirements for a small home server are quite small indeed. Even then, they depend on what you want to do with it.
Buying a commercial linux distribution is probably overkill.
I would try an inside-out strategy instead of outside-in... Start small, explore Linux, find out what it is, make it work for you, before turning it into a server. By then, you'll have a much better idea what you need. Otherwise, you're flying headfirst for a 'linux sucks' moment every time you paint yourself into a corner.
A cheap old desktop would be good.
I'm not sure what distribution to recommend. Things like Ubuntu may work well at first, and install easily, but you'll learn far less, and many things you do learn will be ubuntu things, not Linux in general.
Last edited by Corona688; 08-26-2013 at 12:44 PM..
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linux::distribution::packages
Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)
NAME
Linux::Distribution::Packages - list all packages on various Linux distributions
SYNOPSIS
use Linux::Distribution::Packages qw(distribution_packages distribution_write);
$linux = new Linux::Distribution::Packages({'format' => 'csv', 'output_file' => 'packages.csv'});
$linux->distribution_write();
# Or you can (re)set the options when you write.
$linux->distribution_write({'format' => 'xml', 'output_file' => 'packages.xml'});
# If you want to reload the package data
$linux->distribution_packages();
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple module that uses Linux::Distribution to guess the linux distribution and then uses the correct commands to list all the
packages on the system and then output them in one of three formats: native, csv, and xml.
Distributions currently working: debian, ubuntu, fedora, redhat, suse, gentoo, slackware, redflag.
The module inherits from Linux::Distribution, so can also use its calls.
EXPORT
None by default.
TODO
* Add the capability to correctly get packages for all recognized distributions. * Seperate out parsing from writing. Parse data to hash
and give access to hash. Then write the formatted data from the hash.
AUTHORS
Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.10.1 2006-04-19 Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)