Work is still continuing on migrating this site from ASP.NET to Ruby on Rails. The reasons why aren’t really the basis for this post, so I’ll exclude them from it.

The majority of Ruby on Rails sites run on Linux or a form of UNIX, so I figured that I would take the plunge and do so as well. I consider myself to be a pretty accomplished Windows administrator, but in the realm of Linux, I’m but a wee young lad.

With that in mind, I’m browsing Amazon.com to see if there are any books that might help to soothe the learning pains.

In addition to learning Linux (the right way), I’m also interested in learning Linux web servers the right way as well. Probably the most popular web server for Linux is the Apache server, but I know that LightTPD is starting to gain ground especially amongst Ruby on Rails developers.

Imagine my surprise when I couldn’t find any books on LightTPD. Now, I know that this is a fairly new web server, but I’m used to technical books being written on alpha and beta releases, so it was quite a surprise.

Too bad I don’t know more about it or I would write my own. I think it would sell like hotcakes (if written right).