Posted 12/22/2008 at 03:57:15pm

Actually, it was partially being fed up with the constant problems with XP and partially not being impressed with what I was hearing about the then upcoming "Longhorn" that convinced me to switch from Windows to Linux (to be fair, there were several other factors at work as well, but those were two important factors). I first installed Linux in February 2005 and I am now a happy Ubuntu user with no plans on ever going back.

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Posted 04/30/2007 at 05:51:18pm

This is a great article, but you forgot one step that probably should be checked before setting up your own server. Some ISPs don't allow their customers to host their own web server and/or email server. I know my cable provider doesn't allow it at home, and a couple others I have looked at don't allow it, either (at least, not without paying the higher-priced "business" package). Paying $10 (or less) per month for someone else to host my site/email is a lot cheaper than paying an additional $45 a month to host my own site. Not as fun, but cheaper. ====== Laugh at life or life will laugh at you. Running dual boot WinXP and Kubuntu Linux 6.10