Concern

I got my Dell PowerEdge server today, and installed Ubuntu 6.06 server. Its name is “castor.”

The configuration is:

• Pentium D 820, 2.8GHz, 800MHz front side bus.
• 1GB DDR2 RAM, 533MHz (two 512 sticks).
• Two 80GB, 7.2K SATA hard disks.
• 48X CD-ROM.
• And nothing else.

Total cost was around $750, including tax and shipping.

I’ll Flickr some photos tonight, just because.

Edit: screen shot of the GNOME desktop. This is just running Xvnc as the X server, so it should never need a keyboard, display, and mouse hooked up. I’m doing this (instead of just using X forwarding through SSH) to try and get more of a “feel” for how things run on the Linux desktop. And, I can try any resolution I want.

Looks sharp. Not nearly as clean as OS X, but still very good.

Also, it’s neat that distributions are providing Eclipse’s Java compiler, compiled natively with GCJ. The integration of Free Java into the Linux desktop isn’t complete, yet, but it’s progressing nicely.

Edit: bad photos of a boring computer.