This section will have Linux configurational information, based on my experience with the Redhat distribution. I just love Linux. It just works. And if it doesn't just work, I can look around and figure out why it doesn't. I get the best uptime.

Linux:
Linux is a (mainly) posix-compliant operating system initially started by Linus Torvalds as a school project. Now, it's my desktop of choice. Over Windows. Over the Mac.

My first experience with Linux was around 1995 or 1996, I installed (or tried to install) Slackware on a pc that I had laying around. It was hard. I couldn't get X to work. Luckily, I had a friend of a friend (Mitch Handa, friend of Jon Wilzig) who had a Redhat cd and some time to kill. So that was my first linux install.
Next, I started installing it on boxes at work (CSC at the time, working at Hughes Aircraft. Currently known as Radeon). Whatever.

Hard Drive Upgrade
I just recently did an upgrade on this system, added a newer bigger better drive. Initially when I inststalled redhat 8.0 (abandoning windows 2k), I just went for a default install, which only used a single partition. I was running into some crasing, and felt it might be the drive so got a newer faster bigger one. more...

X Windows configuration for dual monitor and wheel mouse
There were a couple little tweaks I had to put on X to get dual monitors to work the way I wanted them to. My wheel-mouse Intellimouse Explorer, worked out of the box in Redhat 8.0.

Apache:
Apache is the most popular webserver on the internet. I use it to host the sites I develop, and use it at home test the sites as they are built. Setting up a server and maintaining it can be a total pain in the ass at first, but it's like really solid and dependable once you get it configured correctly. And it's kinda fun learning and doing the configuration--if you are that type. :)

I have some apache configuration tips here, to compile apache with mysql, gd and native ttf font support, as well as getting your newly compiled apache to run on boot.

Once you get that, you will probably want to have a couple different servers running, so you can address your images and stuff from /. You'll want to configure virtual hosts and alias multiple ip addresses onto your system.