Sep 22, 2009 0
Flirting with Fedora
This has been a long time coming to say the least. With commercially run Linux web servers on the rise and continuous nudging from my OCAD colleague Ramtin Lotfabadi – Manager, Online Architecture & Development, i have started my foray into Fedora, the open source Linux operating system.
First impressions are extremely positive. Start up/run-time is super-fast. The GNOME desktop aesthetic is much like the Mac OS with a hint of Windows XP styling. Finding your way around is relatively easy as well; just a matter of getting acquainted which really takes no time atoll. The only real learning curve i could see would be the Linux file system and how that is utilized.
So anyway, i decided to buy a new computer to run the system and also act as a file-server on our home network housing all our music, pictures and other miscellaneous data. In implementation though a couple of requirements/challenges came out of this scenario:
- Both computers on the network (one Linux, one Windows) need to be able to communicate with each other in order to share files
- The Linux computer needs to be able to stream our music to any computer connected on the network
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