It’s been a month since my last post but lately I’ve been quite busy so here I’m trying to keep the blog alive

The other day I was thinking(while looking a box in a corner of the room) why do I have that computer here doing nothing? Then suddenly I came up with an old idea I always had I wanted to have a machine as a “personal server”.

I like Gentoo and seems pretty robust to work as a server so why not to set up it now taking in mind that I’m on spring break vacation and that way I’ll have the server and I’ll learn so I dressed up and went to buy a KVM switch cause I’m too lazy to be switching while I set it up xD.

With the KVM installed I was ready, downloaded Gentoo 2006.1 Minimal CD/Install CD and started installing it. In order to install it I followed this guide. The guide is really good so there’s nothing much to comment about it.

Once the OS was up and working was time to modify SSHd config file (/etc/ssh/sshd_config), add users/groups, modiffy permissions, … and install the tools I wanted. There’s nothing much to say, now I’m using that machine as a “development center” playing with Perl and YAML.

Till here my litlle computers story of this first days of spring break.