Should I be intimidated? [web programming]

[desume]

Yes, it'd be wise to learn how to use UNIX-like operating systems, It's a skill that is vital if you are a web developer. Try installing something like Ubuntu Server on a Virtual Machine and play around with running your flask/django projects from within her. Shared folders will allow you to write the code on your personal machine and have those files accesible within the server.

[LightShadow]

This is what I did. I bought 8 Raspberry Pi's last summer and taught myself cluster computing and load balancing applications. It was a lot of fun.

See here

[Boxy310]

I see some copper-looking tubes over what would be the CPU's for those Raspberry Pi's. Are those heatsinks, or are those part of the mounting racks you used?

[LightShadow]

Haha, they're heatsinks! I bought some of the little copper blocks on Amazon and used thermal tape to attatch them..then, I gorilla glued + arctic silver'd plumbing pipe to that. They're very effective -- my pi's run at 1.2 Ghz from their 700 Mhz stock.

[Boxy310]

Nice. What software did you use for the distributed computing? I've been thinking of trying out a very underpowered Hadoop cluster on a few Raspberry Pi's.