{"id":99,"date":"2004-04-12T23:23:49","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T04:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/index.php\/mepis-linux\/"},"modified":"2004-04-12T23:23:49","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T04:23:49","slug":"mepis-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/mepis-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Mepis Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple months since I had Linux (that&#8217;s GNU\/Linux for you diehards) on the desktop and even when I did I never really used it.  The time has come to do it again, this time with a real, practical purpose. I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mepis.com\">Mepis<\/a>  because it&#8217;s based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\">Debian<\/a> which, if you&#8217;re not familiar with Linux, is a distribution (version) that makes it very easy to install new software.  Mepis makes Debian easier to install and configure.   It also works as a live cd (as I mentined a couple days ago).<\/p>\n<p>The purpose for installing it this time is backups&#8230; lately I&#8217;ve had data-loss paranoia and Linux seems like a good way to back up both my remote server and laptop to one place.  I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikerubel.org\/computers\/rsync_snapshots\/\">tutorial<\/a> I&#8217;m going to try which uses rsync.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple months since I had Linux (that&#8217;s GNU\/Linux for you diehards) on the desktop and even when I did I never really used it. The time has come to do it again, this time with a real, practical purpose. I chose Mepis because it&#8217;s based on Debian which, if you&#8217;re not familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}