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RailsRumble: distro decisions decisions

Friday, September 7th, 2007

I received my Linode account for the Rails Rumble.

I logged in and the first thing I have to do is pick the Linux distro I want to install and use for the Rumble.

There are far too many options!

The available distros are:

  • Arch 0.7.1
  • Debian 4.0 (Etch)
  • Finnix 86.1
  • Ubuntu 6.06
  • Ubuntu 7.04
  • CentOS 5.0 (RHEL rebuild)
  • Fedora Core 6 (FC6)
  • Slackware 12.0 (-new-)
  • Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo)
  • Gentoo Linux 2006.1

I’m not really a systems person … I know my way around Linux, but I don’t have a whole lot of experience setting a machine up from scratch. I’ve been lucky that for the last several years I’ve worked with truly awesome sys admins who take care of all this stuff for us.

So what to use?

I am leaning toward Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) because it looks like there are some good tutorials around (I even think the Peepcode guys have been using Ubuntu for some of their work - it might be time to subscribe).

Any ideas are appreciated. I am definitely going to learn a lot this weekend.

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RailsRumble Notes - WoR! by self.Team

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

You can find all my notes for the RailsRumble in Backpack.

I changed my mind, I am going to keep my notes here in the blog.

Go self.Team!

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self.Team

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

I’ve registered for the RailsRumble as a one-person team called, cunningly: self.Team

See what I did there?

I am going to be building a game - a browser-based, AJAXified wargame loosely based on the Roll Out The Gun Barrels ruleset. I’ll be posting a few design ideas over the next week.

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