Well…. Since I got my new machines as seen in these posts, I re-org’d my home network setup slightly.

I have 2 ~300 gb external firewire drives. I use these as my ‘primary’ and ‘backup’ drives. Everything permanent goes on the primary and the backup is cloned daily. These drives are setup under Meme – a Suse machine. They are shared out to the LAN using NFS for other linux machines and Samba for other Windows clients.

• 2 ~300 gb external firewire drives. ‘primary’ and ‘backup’ drives. primary cloned daily.
• Meme -  primary Suse linux server. AMD based 1 GB RAM
• Nemo – windows server – Windows XP Pro. AMD based 1 GB RAM
• HP – New machine -  primary windows desktop – AMD dual core 64 bit athlon. 2 GB RAM
• Plex – New notebook – dual boot – Suse 10.1/ Windows XP Pro (Usually Suse) – dual core – Intel Core Duo 2 GB RAM

I went through setting up both Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Frankly – I just like the Suse distro. I have had a suse machine for some time now. The Meme machine was running Redhat for ~2 years — again, I am just so accustomed to the Suse distro, that I put it on all the machines.

I have donated yet another notebook to a loved one. My Compaq notebook was great, but – it became unreliable. But for someone who wants to just check email etc – and has nothing – it is useful. So my brother in law is now the proud owner of it. The Sony (that I hated) before that Compaq has been serving my sister Jen and her husband (a mac lover) for some years now.

Vista machine coming soon…
-Chris

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