Ubuntu Tutorials

Based on much of the feedback in regards to my desire to blog about more than just Ubuntu I’d like to announce a secondary blog, blog.zelut.org.  I’ve been using this site casually for the past few months, just for little things here and there, but I would like to try and focus now on expanding it to everything I’m working on.  Currently it has a number of posts about FreeBSD, including installation and running services.  I’ve started a section regarding Cisco, which I’m working with quite a bit now day to day.  It also has other things mixed in here and there.  I’m going to be spending some time migrating my scattered personal wiki notes onto that blog.  Topics that you’ll likely see soon:

• Creating an RHN Satellite Server (without Red Hat Satellite) – CentOS
• Creating SSH Jails – CentOS
• Pinning Processes to Specific CPU – Linux
• DBAN (Darik’s Boot-and-Nuke) via PXE – CentOS

…and more.

I’ve added an RSS Feed to the new theme which will display the latest posts from this alternate site.  You can find this in the upper-right corner of this blog.  You may also want to add blog.zelut.org to your RSS reader and get a wider variety of information.  I figure having two sites will be the best way to maintain a range of content while allowing for the reader to select what he does or does not want to read.

You’ll still be able to find Ubuntu related content here, and I’ll stick to that topic as closely as I can.  For all your other Linux needs, I hope you find blog.zelut.org helpful.

I’ve been doing some thinking about how I might be able to light a fire under this blog again and get back to a regular post schedule.  I feel like I’ve exhausted much of the Ubuntu subect matter that this blog has generally focused on.  In that regard I’ve been tempted to post a number of technical artices that relate to other *NIX systems, such as CentOS, FreeBSD, Arch Linux, etc.  The main reason that I have not is that the historic content and name of the blog make me feel like I’m limited to Ubuntu related content as much as possible.  (As well as being syndicated on the Ubuntu Planet)

So I am curious to hear back from you regarding your thoughts on opening this blog up to additional topics and platforms.

This would include many tips and tricks I’ve come across in working on RHEL/CentOS at work for the past six months as well as other systems I’ve been tinkering with, like FreeBSD, Gentoo and Arch Linux.

I realize there may be topics that extend beyond the current reader base, but my hope is that it’ll become a resource for much more than just the Ubuntu crowd.  We are all in the same boat after all.

I’m going to sit on this for a bit.. please comment and let me know your thoughts.  If you are open to the idea, what topics, distributions or tools are you interested in?

I’ve spent a few hours this evening putting together some articles on installing and configuring FreeBSD 7.0.  So far the articles cover installation, configuring a minimalist desktop, sound, boot config, etc and will span over the next week.  These posts are on blog.zelut.org.

Also, many thanks to all the comments and resources regarding getting started.  Those that I’ve been able to look at have been very helpful so far.

I had some time this morning on the bus into work so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to post _something_ here. I know its been quite some time since I’ve been blogging, and I’d like to get started again, life is just hectic right now.

Between starting a new job, having a 7 month old baby and our b0rken economy here in the US blogging is not the first thing on my mind.

One of the other things that has kept me busy is learning FreeBSD. We are very much a RHEL/CentOS shop at work but we have quite a bit of FreeBSD mixed in there as well. After I found that out I decided I should dive into it and get familiar with it. Well, so far, I’m enjoying it quite a bit. I feel like I’m back to the learning stage that I enjoyed so much when I started with Linux years ago. So many new things to explore and troubleshoot.

If any of you loyal readers are FreeBSD fans I’d appreciate any tips that you have or good resources to look into. So far I have been doing minimal installs + ports, and I like how efficient it seems to be.

I have a bunch of FreeBSD related articles I could write up, but I don’t know how fitting they are for this blog so I may put them on my other blog. Lets see if I have time today to write one up.

Anyhow, I hope this posts turns out as I am writing it via elinks on FreeBSD sans GUI on my laptop.