I used to have a home network.

Before I moved I decided it was time to clean up some of the old junk, get rid of computers I wasn’t using regularly, and start fresh. I was going to take three PCs with me to serve as my main workstation and servers and I ordered some parts to upgrade them. Well, the parts haven’t arrived yet and I’ve now found that the nicest of the computers was damaged during the move (not to mention the wireless router that was fried), so it looks as if even after I get the new hardware I’ll only have the two computers. I might be able to salvage the third somehow. On the bright side, my DSL should be turned on tomorrow, so at least I’ll have internet connectivity at home again.

For various sundry reasons one PC will run WinXP and be a basic workstation and gaming PC (if I ever find time to game again). The other will be my main server. Once upon a time I was running Slackware 9.0. But now I have to reinstall everything from scratch, so I’m not sure if I’m going to stay with slackware or move to either debian or freebsd. I really like freebsd, but I need the latest Java JDK’s and FreeBSD doesn’t always have them. I like debian’s use of apt but as a whole prefer slackware as a linux distro. If I go with linux, I’m thinking about trying the new 2.6 kernel as well.

Anyway, decisions, decisions, decisions.