Thanks Lembas,
It seems like lack of up to date, easy to read documentation is a condition
that affects all of GnuLinux. So many lovers of free software are into
hacking (not in that bad sense necessarily), programing and networking
keeping the software moving along bridging obstacles, blazing territory and
climbing mountains, but maybe not the same attention is given to documenting
the trail. And, what documentation is done isn't always following a set of
standard practices or located in standard places and I often feel it assumes
a level of knowledge and familiarity with the subject that many people that
would benefit from its use just don't have (like me).
I have studied some programing but am not proficient. I have a degree in
networking so have a good understanding of basic principles of networking but
honestly I find lots of questions that never got covered in school.
Since installing trisquel a week or so ago, I tried mini-httpd and thin for
web servers. Thin I didn't understand enough to find the the start line and
quickly decided it wasn't for me, it looks like a specialized app for Ruby
people. mini-httpd worked for a moment but I had problems when I got
ambitious, chrooting and enabling ssl, and it seemed to get broken. I wanted
it to work because it's so small. But it was so hard to find answers, so I
moved on. Installed Yaws (maybe I'll leave it running in case I want to try
to study er... what was it, oh yeah, erlang). And now I have installed the
old tried and true, and I think for me, extremely bloated Apache.
At least it's all behind a firewall and, as to locking down, I found it
relatively painless to get cron.daily clamscan and rkhunter/unhide actions
going. Also, I installed harden which I haven't done anything with but
harden-doc might be the step by step guide I wanted. I'm going to start
looking through that today.
Haven't spent much time looking at the forum but I have been loving my
trisquel. I have one issue I might need help with re my graphics card, I am
sure it has a solution but if I can't find it on my own in the next day or
two I'll open a new post.
