The path to creating computing appliances is getting ever easier
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| I've spent the last couple of days transferring PC Pro's archive server
| over to a dedicated machine. The archive holds a searchable index of our
| past issues and the issues themselves, accessible over the intranet for
| easy reference. Up until recently, it had simply been running on my
| Windows XP desktop PC, which had started to complain under the load.
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| The final joyous part of all this - and a genuine poke in the eye for
| platform-bound proprietary software - is that although this system
| initially ran on my Windows machine, it took just a day or so to transfer
| the whole thing to an entirely new operating system in the form of Fedora
| Core 5 (http://fedora.redhat.com), my new favourite Linux distribution.
| And yes! This is open source and free.
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| The result of all this is a specifically tailored, dedicated computer
| system running software of a quality you couldn't buy for any price a
| few years back. The only cost is the hardware, and we all know how cheap
| that is these days.
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