Lately I’ve been getting more involved in an interesting open source project. It is an extremely fast and flexible web server called Cherokee that has been around for some time now. The project started in 2001 and currently Cherokee is available in most Linux and *BSD flavors. You can find those, the source code and versions for Windows and Opensolaris at the download page. The code base is really nice in my opinion, and the server is rock solid and pretty fast.

Although a lot of effort has been put in the development branch, a new version hasn’t been released for quite some time. That is going to change shortly since the project has been steadily gaining momentum and release 0.6.0 is right around the corner. I strongly encourage everyone to check it up as soon as it’s ready. Besides too many improvements to list here, a new graphical interface called cherokee-admin has been developed in Python to make the configuration process easier.

I’ll be writing a couple of HOWTOs about the new version as soon as it is production ready, but keep a close watch on the project’s and Alvaro’s websites for the upcoming release. If you can’t wait until then, take a look at the Subversion repository. As I said before, the server is robust, fast and feature rich… and each of these qualities is only going to get better and better. Stay tuned! ;)

It seems I’ll have it in a few hours. Soon after the last post I was notified that the computer would be shipped the same day.

If everything goes according to plan, it should arrive a day earlier than expected. That means this evening!

By the way… do you remember I said it was rock solid? Look at the impressive video I’ve found.

Just let me be the first to say it: ????Awesome!

It’s been a while since my last post. The last few months have been really crazy. Hopefully it’ll get more interesting from now on.

My current laptop isn’t in bad shape, but it is quite outdated now. Last month was my birthday, and since I didn’t do anything fancy I decided it was time to give myself a late present.

I would have loved a Macbook Pro, but I’m not made of money and I really wanted a hires screen.
So I did some research and finally decided on a ThinkPad R61. It’s a lot cheaper than the rest of the ThinkPad models, every single review I’ve read is excellent and I’m quite impressed with the specs.

It’s one of the models shipped by Lenovo directly with SUSE Linux, and as I’m not fond of paying a Microsoft tax for something I won’t be using, I tried really hard to find a retailer that would sell it with Linux in Spain. Unluckily with no success.

The price is just slightly above the average laptop, and it’s got one of the new Penryn 45nm Core 2 Duo processors, 4 GB of RAM, 15.4″ 1680×1050 screen and a rock solid design. I’ll be using it with Linux and OpenSolaris, so the virtualization support will be something to be grateful for.

I’m told I can expect it for this Friday. Just a couple more days… I can barely wait :)

As I said before, it comes with some severe software limitations, but as soon as I can unbreak it by wiping out Windows I’ll be bragging about the new machine right here ;-)