Having used Debian testing and stable (sarge and sarge) for this server the last two years, time had come for some serious pimpin'. The hardware is old and low-end but works incredibly well (PowerBook Lombard G3/333 Mhz). It's well built, noiseless and consumes less than 20W on average. I had to do something with the hardware though so out: 20GB Fujitsu 4200RPM, in: 80GB WD 5400RPM bling!
Fedora Core is a terrific desktop distribution (I've used it since FC3) but also very nice and shiny server-wise:
- ExecShield (rocks!) bling!
- Stack Smash Protection and FORTIFY_SOURCE (rocks!) bling!
- SELinux (for those that dare) bling!
- Solid package management bling!
- Well maintained security updates bling!
- Ever-growing community driven extras repository bling!
- XEN virtualization (not for PPC yet though) bling!
- All built with GCC 4.1 bling!
As for the packages, watch your eyes - did I say it's shiny?
Debian sarge version -> Fedora Core 5 version:
- Apache httpd 2.0.54 -> 2.2.0 bling!
- Kernel 2.6.8 -> 2.6.16.1 bling!
- Moinmoin 1.3.4 -> 1.5.2 bling!
- MySQL 4.1.11 -> 5.0.18 bling!
- PHP 4.3.10 -> 5.1.2 bling!
- Python 2.4.1 -> 2.4.2 bling!
- Subversion 1.1.4 -> 1.3.0 bling!
Pimped!
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