{"id":569,"date":"2004-05-30T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2004-05-30T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=569"},"modified":"2004-05-30T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2004-05-30T18:39:09","slug":"and-then-there-was-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"And then there was Debian!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>ook all night: We were watching <em>Master and Commander<\/em> first, then <em>The Others<\/em>. However, the last DVD was apparently b0rken so I ended up installing Debian from, what was it, 11 to 2:30 AM.\n<\/p>\n<p>The good thing is that there were no problems installing it, except for X11, which doesn&#8217;t want to start, nor &#8216;autodetect&#8217; anything. I remember us having problems before too with Fedora, but for now I can&#8217;t be bothered looking into it. After all, I wanted Elsie to be &#8216;console&#8217; only, that is, plain server-only. No need for bulky Gnome or bumpy KDE. No offense meant.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Postgres-based, naturally. So I ended up manually installing PHP4 (I noticed that the current Debian always installs Perl and Python, but PHP is left out), compile the right apache mods <em>plus<\/em> the specific Postgres mod for PHP.\n<\/p>\n<p>I have the feeling Debian is a bit faster, more &#8216;aligned&#8217; so to say. And sure it was when I was looking for the tools I could easily find on the RH Fedora distro. First of all, Postgres comes in version 7.2. The same for other utilities. I guess I have to play the waiting game and see when (or at which stage) the Debian folks include a 7.4 Postgres version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took all night: We were watching Master and Commander first, then The Others. However, the last DVD was apparently b0rken so I ended up installing Debian from, what was it, 11 to 2:30 AM. The good thing is that there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}