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The Linux Student Development Server: Part 2

After much prodding and poking, the dev server launched, albeit dissatisfactorily: due to various issues I’ve decided to treat this first round as a prototype and create a fresh instance of the server, setting it up from scratch again, employing what I’ve learned from round one to get it working properly. Fortunately demand for the [...]

The Linux Student Development Server: Part 1

A few weeks ago I was tasked with establishing a *nix based server at work for the purposes of development access (first year Unix and C Students). Up front this sounds fairly simple (install a distro, openssh, install the dev tools, create accounts, voila) but in practice there are a number of other considerations which [...]

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