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I just ordered a new machine! This will be my new linux server. Yes! I haven’t bought a computer in years. It’s pretty awesome.
Here’s the spec:

• 2Ghz AMD Mobile Athlon XP Processor
• 512MB Corsair DDR SDRAM
• 200GB Seagate 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
• 52X Sony CD-R/Combo Drive
• ANTEC SOHO File Server Tower

I’ll use my old graphic card from one of the machines that I am not using, and total comes to $476.24. Not bad for a computer with its CPU speed three times the other ones and HD more than double the size. My goal was around $400 but… oh well.

So my next question is what OS am I going to load on this. Now, I LOVE Fedora. I’ve been using Red Hat family since Red Hat 7J era, (that’s J for Japanese version) - remember Japanese Language Kit for Mac OS? that wasn’t that long ago. Back then, instead of paying apple extra $200 for JLK, it was more attractive to install Linux, with which you can use Japanese language right out of the box. Anyway, I could keep installing Fedora family every time the new Core versions gets released. Or I could switch to Debian or FreeBSD. Or suck it up and pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a lot of money, so probably not.

With installer like MEPIS Linux Debian net installer, it may be easier now to get Debian install. But I had such bad experience in the past that I can’t make that leap just yet…

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