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This last weekend at cf.objective(), Joe Reinhart gave a presentation about what's new and upcoming in Model-Glue 3 (gesture) and then announced its alpha release. That night I downloaded it and got it running with the 6 4-bit Coldfusion 8.0.1 with Apache 2.2 on OS X leopard in no time at all. However, on my test machine running Fedora Core 9 I had a few problems.

With starting a new job, I've had the opportunity to engulf myself in a new and "interesting" language: Adobe/MacromediaColdFusion. Because I'm starting out as a total beginner with CF and moving from PHP, I thought I'd sign up for some mailing lists from House of Fusion and also to be a beta tester for Adobe. I got a copy of CF 8 (codenamed scorpio) for linux and decided to take my old-school Mac and turn it into a ubuntu server with mysql 5, php 5, apache 2, and CF 8.

So I ran off to Ubuntu and grabbed a copy of their server edition of Edgy 6.10 and installed a LAMP server i just under 2 hours (slow computer and all, takes for a while.)

While trying to kill some time at work the other day, I was looking around the internet at my new favorite site, The Museum of Modern Betas, and I just started clicking on links. Eventually I came across a linux called Ubuntu that I thought might be cool to test out. But my real excitement came when I went to download it and saw there were two versions - a live CD that was also for installing the desktop version as well as a Server only install. What really caught my eye was the Ubuntu Server version for the sparc processor. I've had this Sun Ultra10 lying around for a year or two now with nothing to do since I could never quite get Solaris 9 to run apache, mysql and php.