Fun with Fedora

I've been working at a company for a little over 2 years now that is a microsoft sycophant company.  When it doesn't use microsoft, it uses the biggest, least agile vendor it can find.

I didn't realize how much working with microsoft killed my computer interest.  In the past few weeks I've been working on upgrading and redesigning my home systems.  I had a fairly archaic Fedora Core 9 home server which I rarely used except to run Alpine on (to report my spam easily.)  I've decided it is time to go massively virtual.

I built a new VirtualBox virtual machine on my laptop.  I migrated the FC9 box from a standalone server to the VM (not that hard really, just some dump/restore actions and voila.)

The new task is to create a new FC13 box as the host OS.  Build a couple of VMs under it with different functions.  I should be able to upgrade the host OS and guest OSs on a different schedule and that should make keeping up with updates and new releases earlier, since I won't have to whack everything at one time.
I also think I'll take this opportunity to separate my user services from my system.  I might even run Ubuntu for my surfing OS and FC13 guests for DNS, SMTP, and squid.  Plus who knows maybe even adventurous enough to put IPS on a VM too.




Here is the Google Doc that is tracking my technical progress:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaMcNzMelT4JZGM3cXR4N2NfMzM4ZHdmNDRoZ20&hl=en

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