temojen's Journal: Nexentia

I gave Nexentia a whirl on a server I'm building at home. It's a Debian/ubuntu based system on top of the OpenSolaris Kernel and core utilities. It looks like it'll be fairly useful. Perplexingly, the default behaviour of shutdown is to put the system into single user mode... which means you have to log in on the console to run poweroff... which means you have to have a console, or learn to use "shutdown -i 5" instead. My plan is to not have a console on this machine as it'll be somewhere other than my office.

My plans for the server are:

• Play with it a few weeks first so I don't make any rookie mistakes, then Re-install it for
• A large iSCSI share for my aperture vault and time machine
• A zone to run a bittorrent client and Samba share
• A zone to run Cyrus IMAP & MTA and fetchmail as a SOHO mailserver so I can use my email on any of my computers, home or otherwise
• A zone to run Apache for my own website
• Multiple zones to run Postgres for various projects and experiments.
• Multiple zones for various Apache/PHP or Tomcat web projects
• A zone with a KDE desktop installed to play with XDMCP and to have a KDE system I can access from my Mac Mini.