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The old Penguin server has been pulled out of deep storage, I have acquired a very old Viewsonic 14 inch monitor, and they are set up and ready to go at the new secret Datamantic world headquarters. I am now waiting for my Powerbook to burn disc 1 of CentOS 4.1 i386 (that is a specific distribution and flavor of Linux,) so I can load it into the server and begin to configure this thing.
It is exciting and also a little scary. Like walking around in the dark. I really don't know what is going to happen. I've been studying the very active CentOS mailinglist for the last few weeks and there seems to be an awful lot of community support around this distribution. Hopefully that will be enough to get me up and running.
For the record, I am most scared of Bind, followed by email services.
Here goes...