I have replaced my old Athlon64 3000+ server box, with an AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+, with 4G OCZ RAM, and 6x500G WD SATA drives in a RAID6 configuration.
The old server had been running Mandriva 2006.0 since sometime in late 2005. I never moved it to Mandriva 2007.0, mainly because after testing it I decided it was too unstable, even in the installer for me to bother going any further. I was quite happy with Mandriva 2006.0, and saw no reason to move to 2007.0 as it did not provide any significant (imho) improvements that I needed, or felt I could benefit from.
So as I approached the end of 2007, I thought it was time to upgrade the hardware, and with it investigate alternative distributions, especially seeing as Mandriva have eol'd 2006.0, and removed all existing updates from their mirrors :(.
I have been using Ubuntu on my desktop since early 2006, and seeing as it is a Debian derivative, I thought I'd give Debian another try.
I had tried Debian in the past (the distant past), and never liked it. I found dpkg bizarre, and always went back to the safety of my rpm based distros like Mandriva, and RedHat. Having now used Ubuntu for a considerable period, and setting up Ubuntu servers for friends, I gave in to the relentless pressure from my ILUG compatriots to switch to Debian.
Read the full article on my deki wiki
The old server had been running Mandriva 2006.0 since sometime in late 2005. I never moved it to Mandriva 2007.0, mainly because after testing it I decided it was too unstable, even in the installer for me to bother going any further. I was quite happy with Mandriva 2006.0, and saw no reason to move to 2007.0 as it did not provide any significant (imho) improvements that I needed, or felt I could benefit from.
So as I approached the end of 2007, I thought it was time to upgrade the hardware, and with it investigate alternative distributions, especially seeing as Mandriva have eol'd 2006.0, and removed all existing updates from their mirrors :(.
I have been using Ubuntu on my desktop since early 2006, and seeing as it is a Debian derivative, I thought I'd give Debian another try.
I had tried Debian in the past (the distant past), and never liked it. I found dpkg bizarre, and always went back to the safety of my rpm based distros like Mandriva, and RedHat. Having now used Ubuntu for a considerable period, and setting up Ubuntu servers for friends, I gave in to the relentless pressure from my ILUG compatriots to switch to Debian.
Read the full article on my deki wiki
