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Jay S
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Although I'm not an IT person, I am a techno geek at heart. I've been a user and tinkerer for a long time but I've decided to take on Linux and a few projects to make our home computing environment a bit 'better' and to learn a few new skills.
For starters, I've ordered a Raspberry Pi to see what I can do with a simple hardware setup and I've loaded LXLE on a small netbook to get started with. So far, so good!
So here is what I'd like to work through in the next few weeks/months:
1. Configure the Pi as a print server for a printer we've had for a while but it isn't network or wireless ready
2. Configure the Pi to run as a file server, using USB hard drives, holding primarily music, video and photo files.
3. Configure the Pi to work as a Wordpress and possibly an email server
I've been scouring websites, forums and videos acquainting myself with some of the hardware, software and procedural needs for each of these projects, but I'm wondering if I'm getting a ways ahead of myself.
Now, I'm pretty sure that asking the Linux crowd whether I should be jumping into the Linux world will lead me to a resounding "YES, you should" series of answers, but is the effort worth it? Our home environment is currently a fairly simple one, i.e. surfing the web, email, creating and editing work documents... I can see a future that involves much more media integration, expansion of our small blog and wanting to have more control over our personal web presence.
A bit of rambling on, I think, but I'd love to hear any feedback. Also, I worked with DOS starting with 2.2 (I believe) so I'm interested in working from the command line and just using a GUI when I'm browsing and reading email. Any hardcopy recommendations as a reference and tutorial?
Thanks so much and Enjoy the ride,
Jay
For starters, I've ordered a Raspberry Pi to see what I can do with a simple hardware setup and I've loaded LXLE on a small netbook to get started with. So far, so good!
So here is what I'd like to work through in the next few weeks/months:
1. Configure the Pi as a print server for a printer we've had for a while but it isn't network or wireless ready
2. Configure the Pi to run as a file server, using USB hard drives, holding primarily music, video and photo files.
3. Configure the Pi to work as a Wordpress and possibly an email server
I've been scouring websites, forums and videos acquainting myself with some of the hardware, software and procedural needs for each of these projects, but I'm wondering if I'm getting a ways ahead of myself.
Now, I'm pretty sure that asking the Linux crowd whether I should be jumping into the Linux world will lead me to a resounding "YES, you should" series of answers, but is the effort worth it? Our home environment is currently a fairly simple one, i.e. surfing the web, email, creating and editing work documents... I can see a future that involves much more media integration, expansion of our small blog and wanting to have more control over our personal web presence.
A bit of rambling on, I think, but I'd love to hear any feedback. Also, I worked with DOS starting with 2.2 (I believe) so I'm interested in working from the command line and just using a GUI when I'm browsing and reading email. Any hardcopy recommendations as a reference and tutorial?
Thanks so much and Enjoy the ride,
Jay