Well it has been a busy week for all of us.  The programmers and artists are busy putting the finishing touches on our exciting beta and I spent the large portion of  last week redoing the CSS for the entire site to streamline your browsing experience.  When I go back a look at all of the little services and tweaks that I have done I figure I should give credit to my many resources.

First of all I’ve been using the Debian style of package management off and on since the early 2000’s when I used a distribution called Libranet.  This was a great distribution for a time when running Linux on the desktop was a challenge to say the least.  One thing that rang true with me was the east installation of packages AND all their dependencies with a very simple command..

apt-get install <package>

No crappy .rpm’s no having to install from source just easy to use and even easier to customize.

Enter Ubuntu which has gone to great strides bringing  Linux to the masses.  Not only does Canonical have a well thought out and designed product, there is a great community behind it.  For a self taught computer user I found it immensely helpful.  One of my favorite little bits of information is the server guide that is made for ever release.  This guide provides a quick setup for many of the common services that are run in a server (read: command line) interface.  You can find the latest version for 10.04 here.

For all those self taught users out there like myself you will learn more from following this guide then you’d like to admit.  I challenge anyone to setup a mail server for multiple domains in less than six hours without at least referencing a guide once or twice.