rossz's Journal: New Server

I finally bought a new server to replace the old one that committed suicide. I picked up a Shuttle SK41G with xp1900+ processor, 512Meg memory, DVD/CD reader, and 80Gig harddrive (7200 rpm, 8Meg cache). Nope, no floppy. I don't use them anymore. I have my Laks USB watch if I need to transfer files without the network. And yes, I can boot from the watch if I really want to.

I put Debian on it because SuSE 7.3 can't handle drives bigger than 32Gig and SuSE 8.2 wouldn't work with the the nic even though it's a generic 8139too type. It was probably something simple like the io address, but I didn't think of it at the time.

I'm mostly using the "testing" tree of Debian because "stable" is populated with far too many really old programs. So far, I've slapped on apache 1.3, samba 3.0, Exim 4 with exiscan, qpopper, clamav, spamassassin, mysql 4, and a few other odds and ends.

What I really need is a decent content management package that is easy enough for my wife and daughter (age 13) to create web pages. Any thoughts?

The system hasn't even started to break a sweat. I swear I haven't seen its processor load exceed 1%!!! lol

I wanted to run lm-sensors, but it was returning totally insane values for the voltages and temperatures.

CMS

[t0qer]

Use PHPnuke and the htmlarea plugin. Check out http://www.dougellington.com for an example. (Free reg, try submitting a story once you're there)

Re:CMS

[rossz]

I looked at PHPNuke. I think it's far too cluttered looking for my taste - and my wife hated the look, too. For blogging, I installed MovableType. It does the job well, and has a clean look to it. For my daughter, I'll just share out her web space with samba (I have a firewall/router, so it's not a security problem) and give her a decent html editor.