While Jaunty Jackalope is still in development, I decided to format my hard-drive at home and do a fresh install of the new beta. This was really the first time when installing a beta-release really was the best choice I could’ve made. Jaunty is amazing! A lot of small bugs are worked out, booting time has drastically decreased and the looks are just great.
At first I tried to ‘update-manager -d’ my old Kubuntu Intrepid install, but I used gnome with Kubuntu there and updating to Ubuntu Jaunty wasn’t the best idea, so that’s why I decided to do a fresh install. The alternate installer didn’t quite work, so I had to use the graphical installer instead. This worked fine, except for the fact that I couldn’t do raid in the setup, but anyway, nothing mdadm couldn’t fix afterwards.
Overall, I’m quite happy with Jaunty Jackalope, even when it’s still in beta.
It’s been a while since a last updated this blog.. It’s been hectic and I was also quite lazy at times I had plenty of time, but anyway;
Lloigor is gone, parts have been recycled and it’s now completely out of the rack. My workstation at home has been renamed Lloigor and he got a new little brother, Cthulhu.
Cthulhu really lives up to his name, it’s quite the monster, being a 5U Dell PowerEdge 4600. It has room for 8 hot-swap scsi-disks and also has 4 hot-swappable PSU’s, talk about redundant!
Also, very important: Cthulhu.oldones.net is the first one of the oldones that is reachable by native IPv6, supplied by my work, BIT BV. (Lloigor has a sixxs tunnel and Hastur has nothing yet.)
So, here are Cthulhu’s specs:
Cthulhu
5U PowerEdge 4600
1x 1,8 Ghz Xeon
4x 128 MB PC1600 ECC (this will be upgraded soon with an extra 4x 512 MB PC1600 ECC)
2x 18 GB Hotswap SCSI 15K RPM (RAID1 array)
6x 36 GB Hotswap SCSI 15K RPM (RAID5 array)
2x redundant PSU
