Once your OS is grown enough to play (I mean installed), you have to sit down with it and do the SECURITY TALK.

A little on the philosophical side of it, I think sense of security is just a fad and a perception. You are secure when you start feeling it, or we can keep on going paranoid tweaking it deeper and deeper, there will always exploits to to be known, more tools to be learnt, more WMDs to be discovered!

Always have a second plan- backup your data.

Lets get back to our Linux Box.

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In the last post, I mentioned meeting my old pal Tux.

Now back to coniguring the machine. I will be using the test server for Drupal websites, Rails projects and possibly Lift projects. Also, I love Punjabi and I love Unicode. So I’m going to try to make things as Unicode friendly as they can be.

Let’s start.

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I hardly get enough time away from my Mac machines, so I planned to get back in touch with the penguin, and to build a test server.

My plan was to install Xen, and then run a Linux instance on top of it. However the only spare machine was a G5 Xserve, I could not find any information of Xen on ppc processor.

Choosing Linux flavour for ppc wasn’t easy either. Most of the open source linux flavours have stopped supporting ppc, as it seems like a dying platform. Red Hat and Suse seem to support the architecture in their enterprise versions. I did’nt wanted to run YDL, the only flavour I could find truely supporting ppc architecture.

Finally, I decided to go ahead with the Ubuntu 8.04 Server community version for ppc.

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