Back with a New Project

Been a bit since my last post, but I have kicked off my next project.

For awhile I wanted something else to blog about and run a new website. Though my FreeBSD server is doing fine, Fedora is another intriguing option. For the last few days I’ve been playing around with Fedora 13 and FreeBSD 8.1.

Pros for FreeBSD? Well, the obvious is that I know the system and know what to expect. Con for FreeBSD? No nice way of doing an auto-update. Which leads to the plus side of Fedora. I like the idea of doing “yum update” and grabbing all the updates automatically.

The other learning angle is to try and break away from a command line and move towards GUI. Downside for Fedora is that I am not familiar with the system.

The ultimate goal will be the following:

Fedora 13 Installed and Patched

Postfix with a pop client

Apache

MySQL

Drupal for Blogging and site management

DNS

Gui Admin tools

This may not be the exact order, but with luck the system should run pretty good. The main concern I’ll have is security so this should be a fun project.

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