I’ve been meaning to try out Ubuntu for a while now, so I decided to download 9.04 server and give it a try. I’d been a strong Fedora (and Red Hat before that!) supporter for years, but for the most part, Linux is Linux, so how difficult could it be to switch. More here

It was then that I remember having similar issues the last time I rebuilt the server. Enough was enough. I was tired of managing 5 drives + 2 external drives on 8 year old hardware. So, I went to Newegg.ca and ordered some new hardware. I got a 2GHz dual core Celeron processor, a Gigabyte mother board with gigabit ethernet and onboard video, 4 GB ram, and 2 1TB hard drives. I figure that ought to last me another 5 years or so.