I had the site up and running but I didn’t like the configuration as it was very heavy on limited resources. Anyway I got it going again and this is going to be one of those “roll your own kind of stories“. Great thing about the web… full of information. Bad thing… a lot of it is under explained or even gasp wrong. Since I have managed to get everything going again in coming posts I will attempt to document how it happened. OF COURSE I have to give the standard disclaimer. I do not know exactly what I am doing so anyone else who tries this based on my experience is responsible for whatever might happen to them.
The gist of this story is how I needed a free OS to run on a spare PC that I wanted to use as a server but felt that at least a some level I wanted this machine to also provide some rudimentary GUI functions (a weakness of mine as i have learned from much research through web forums and various other resources on the web). I might be one of those people who got enslaved by those point and click systems. I will get to all of this in subsequent posts. Oh yeah I am throwing the word free in there because I really didn’t want to pay for anything but use the free tools that exist already.