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My main motivation for getting involved with Linux was servers. I've been running Apache, mail (mostly Sendmail, some Qmail), Samba and DNS servers for quite a few years now. The only server I use at my ISP is NNTP, everything else is handled in house.

Linux has been my primary desktop OS for some time now. Initially I used it for most of my writing and online activities. Linux and I got better over time and I started using it for entertainment (e.g. multimedia) and other miscellaneous tasks that I had been using Windows for. I still need Windows for CAD (no luck w/ wine) so I haven't bothered looking for an alternative to QuickBooks and and a few other programs that I use less often then CAD (e.g. TaxAct).

The Linux sub-categories contain notes, how-to's and links that I have written/accumulated over the years. The content is somewhat random and is, by no means, thorough.

Archiving
      RAR and PAR2
Distros
      Mandriva and SuSE 10.1
KDE
      Miscellaneous KDE and Kate How To's
Multimedia
      Xine and Mplayer,   GeeXboX,   LIRC,   Ripping and Transcoding,   Joining avi files
Notes
      Common and obscure tasks
rsync
      Mirroring and backup
Servers
      Mostly Apache
Software
      A few programs that I use.
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