[H-ADMIN] Fwd: Linux Home Server HOWTO and HUMBUG

[matt]

Sounds interesting. I have just been to the page to check it out
http://brennan.id.au/ . The page looks good and well written (I had a
very quick look) so I would be happy to agree with this proposal.

Matt  

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 19:23 +1000, Miles Brennan wrote:
> Dear HUMBUG,
> 
> Just wondering if the committee has had time to discuss / evaluate my
> attached email; as I have not yet had a response.
> 
> Sorry for not posting to the lists, I thought you'd like the
> opportunity to discuss as an exec first.
> 
> If you want this posted to one of the lists instead, please advise.
> 
> Regards,
> Miles Brennan
> 0434 947 917
> 
> -------- Original Message -------- 
>                           Subject: 
> Linux Home Server HOWTO and HUMBUG
>                              Date: 
> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:59:21 +1000
>                              From: 
> Miles Brennan <miles at brennan.id.au>
>                                To: 
> secretary at humbug.org.au
>                                CC: 
> Miles Brennan - Home
> <miles at brennan.id.au>
> 
> 
> Hi Sec,
> 
> I'm the author of the Linux Home Server HOWTO, which I initially wrote 
> about 5 years ago as project work on my Masters with Mark Looi over at QUT.
> 
> Its an extensive amount of technical documentation (20 Chapters) 
> targeted at new users who want to set up their own servers at home, and 
> covers most of the server based daemons (apache, samba, squid, iptables, 
> nfs v3+4, ntp, ftp, sshd, sql, ldap etc...)
> 
> Initially based and documented around Fedora Core 3, it went through a 
> revision to FC5 in Nov 2004. However, as the documentation was based at 
> the script level, then it worked well for many other distros (no GUI 
> stuff at all).
> 
> The reason for this email is maintenance, I simply don't have time. I 
> also wanted to participate more in HUMBUG, but the most I got to was 
> subscribing to these email lists and reading them when they come through 
> - sad isn't it... !
> 
> What I'd like to put forward to the HUMBUG community, is the donation of 
> the complete HOWTO document, if the organisation is in a position to 
> provide active custodianship - I'll change licensing to suit the 
> requirements.
> 
> The HOWTO is still very active and receives a constant flow of visitors 
> from all round the world, this might be a good opportunity for HUMBUG to 
> benefit, particularly for membership drive and install-fests etc...
> 
> November's awstats are:
>     Unique Visitors         22926
>     Numb of Visits          28046
>     Pages                   39632
>     Hits                   120872
>     Bandwidth              1.79GB
> 
> (Not bad for 20 pages of text).
> 
> The site rates very high with most of the search engines, I.e. linux + 
> server normally results in page 1 display.
> 
> Regards,
> Miles Brennan