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I've not long started a "tech blog"*. Although it's fairly focussed on things you perhaps won't find that relevant, I'm sort of planning a series of articles aimed at people who what to become a little more "techie".

I've written the first article** in the series I'm calling "from scratch", which shows quite graphically how to Install Ubuntu Server from scratch. Might be useful for anyone planning to build their own home server:
http://biscuit.ninja/blog/installing-ubuntu-server-from-scratch

The idea is to try and write one in this series each week. Next week's plan is to write about using SSH to access your Ubuntu Server. Then move onto setting up a web server/storage server/windows sharing etc. and slowly build it up into what will be, hopefully, a useful resource.
I'm also happy to take some of the problems people have had here as inspiration for future articles to help home users.

Your feedback is of course welcome. I know the website is missing a fav icon, robots.txt etc. and the error pages are not working yet. It's a little and often type project, squeezed in around my other priorities. I'm not planning on doing any SEO work either - I just haven't got the time. I'm more interested in getting feedback on the idea and of course the actual content.

Thanks
Afasoas.

*really a system administrators blog, but the two aren't that dissimilar to the uninitiated.
**There's one section incomplete, which I'll hopefully have sorted by the end of the week.
 
great idea ! seems you were already busy, will need to read up when at work :) keep up good work !
 
Whilst a nice idea, there are already so many out there that do that. I use howtolinux a fair bit for these kind of things. Thought about it many a time for my own memory as well to add those kind of posts, but a google easily finds it for that level.

But hey regardless of this bah humbug if you enjoy doing it, then go for it.

Ps. Installing Linux is so trivial these days, I'd focus on a post installation tips to configure it properly once installed. You know things like support for hidpi which is still a royal pain in the next. Or making it easy for people to monitor and manage with installing stuff like virtualmin. Or a great tool for web insite and goals but without giving Google all your data like piwik. Just some thoughts.
 
You are right. There is a lot out there already. But thats not a good reason for not doing this.

The bulk of articles will reflect what I do on a daily basis and what I want to do on a daily basis. In other words, the blogs main purpose is reinforcing my CV. For instance, yesterday I had to recover a dead GlusterFS brick following a hard disk failure.I have already drafted a blog article on that.



I wrote the Ubuntu Install article to help a specific person. Often people dont have the courage to try something until they realise how easy it is. Future pieces in that series will build on that article.
 
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