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Last night and today have managed to make me a very humble little geek. All of my experiences, pitfalls and stress-inducers can be summarized by this statement:

Setting up a linux server is a helluva lot harder than setting up a linux desktop.

Maybe that’s just my own opinion — and I’m ok if yours is different — but holy crap, desktops are easy! Wading through the joy of cobbling together a LAMP environment is just a bit frustrating. I mean, if you take a clean machine, pop in the distro CD and select “Server” for the install type, you tend to expect certain things… I even made sure to check off ALL the boxes for mysql. Managed to get all the client stuff, but not the actual server. *mutter*  Hey, it gave me Postgress server though and I didn’t even ask for that one.
I took a break for the last hour and got all my gunk running with Wampserver. Well, almost all of it. Getting my data from one db to another wasn’t going very well. If the sql script says “drop this table if it exists…” why would it holler if it can’t find the table? But that’s not wampserver’s issue. Frankly, the wampserver product itself and the way it is bundled works very very well. I like it.

But damnit, I want a linux server.

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