I finished setting up the new machine (named Clarence Fontelroy III) over the weekend. It’s an old PII Compaq desktop that the office across the way was tossing. More than enough power for what I’m planning for it, which is to act like a Samba/CVS/Issue Tracking /Autobuilder. Out with the win95 and in with the Fedora Core 4, and all is ready to go.
I set up and configured VSFTP, SSH, PHP5, Apache, MySQL, and PhpMyAdmin. That’s about the minimum I need to work on the box for deveopment projects. I’ll look into adding Zope, Tomcat, and Rails later, but I really don’t need them right now. I’ve given PEAR a complete update, and I’m pretty much ready to go.
There are still a few things that I’m going to have to figure out. F’rinstance, which F/OSS tools do I want to use for building, CVS, project management, etc. I’d love them to work together pretty seamlessly, but I’m not holding out for that. As long as they’re scriptable I can set up the cron jobs.
I’m not too sure why I didn’t do this before. I like using these tools much more than I like the Windows equivalents. The price is right. It runs flawlessly on old hardware. All in all, exactly what I want.
And now off to rehearsal.