Replacing The Fedora Server
From Mike Beane's Blog
Old Server
I've been running a Fedora Core server in the attic for years (just checked the version: FC7) and decided that it was time to move things over to a newer distro. Before the FC install, it was Mandrake (pre-Mandriva), and this time it will be an Ubuntu 10.10 server install.
I'm debating if it will stay in the 'new' box or if I'll attempt to migrate the drives to the pictured chassis. More drive space in the new box as their is only one IDE connector on the old box's mainboard. I'm losing speed in this move, but I'm gaining potential storage space.
- old box: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz - cpu MHz: 2399.451
- new box: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ - cpu MHz: 1833.180
New Server
Remote Desktop
I'm a fan of SSH-ing back to my home server and utilizing a desktop there when I'm away from home. I find it an easy way to provide privacy, ease of use, having all my tools there, etc. After installing Ubuntu Server, I did a sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and waited for the desktop core elements to be installed. After that, a VNCSERVER setup and then SSH over Putty from my Windows box shows a working remote desktop on the server. Difference in RAM usage was roughly 128MB+. I started doing this back in 2006 and you can read VNC over SSH for more on that.
More to come
Cleanup - Need to fix the picture alignment later