I can give you some help via email, but I'm not close to Ray/Cooper.
I'll be able to help more on some Fedora topics, depending on what they are.

With server type issues, there are others on this list more qualified than I
regarding Fedora.

On 8/17/07, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 17 August 2007 12:18, after a long battle with technology,
> Stephen P Rufle wrote:
> > I would like to ask the list if there is anyone that lives near
> > Ray/Cooper who would be willing to help me learn about GNU/Linux ( I
> > am starting with the two distros in the subject). I would be willing
> > to buy dinner ( pizza ... etc or you can eat a home cooked meal :)
> > and then tutor me on the different issues I might be having.
>
> I don't live that near (13.1 miles away, Southern and Mill, "25 minutes
> in traffic" according to Google Maps, that is probably underestimating
> things.) but might be willing to help.
>
> >     * Software RAID ( wanted to know someone before I invoke a
> > failure), GUI tool to show state or manage
>
> SoftRAID is too important to be left to a GUI tool.  However, it should
> be pretty easy to hack something that reads /proc/mdstat and displays
> that info prettily with Gtk2-Perl.  Doing things with mdadm would also
> be possible with that approach, but it'd require more work.
>
> >     * Would like to set up VNC so I can run the comp with no monitor
> >       after it is setup
>
> No problem, run KDE Desktop Sharing or gino or x11vnc while you have a
> monitor hooked up, test, make sure it works, fuggeddabouttit.  NOTE:
> VNC is not insanely great wrt speed, and will be laggy and annoying
> even on a switched 100bT net.  BTDT.  There's *got* to be a much better
> way.  I don't know what it is though.  For running individual apps,
> using X (bare if you have your X started without -nolisten tcp or
> forwarded over ssh if not) is the way to go if you have 100bT.



I've tried and been impressed with FreenNX, which is the free version of
NoMachine.



>     * General guidance on living with Linux
>
> 0. Try something new.
> 1. If it worked, great.  Remember it.  Goto 0.
> 2. If it didn't work, remember how it failed, try to do things
> differently next time so that it fails in a different way or works.
> Search The Fine Web for keywords that relate to what you want to do,
> and you can often find much useful information.  Goto 0.
>
>