Spoiled For Choice

I'm rebuilding all my computers over the next few weeks - Haruhi, Yuri, Nagi and Tanarotte are all set the be backed up and reinstalled, and Potemayo to at least be upgraded.

Nagi and Potemayo will be going to Windows 7, that's pretty simple.

Haruhi most likely to Windows Server 2008 R2.  (It costs me nothing, and I want to play with SQL Server.)

Tanarotte will be going to CentOS 5.4.  It currently has 5.3, but the installation was done in something of a rush so I'm going to wipe it and reinstall with a little more care.  That will be my main development/test systems (and a 5TB file server as well), running OpenVZ to provide multiple virtual test
environments.

And Yurie will be going to...  Either Fedora 12 (though I haven't been too impressed with Fedora lately; the user interface has taken major steps backwards) or Kubuntu 9.10 (don't like Gnome) or openSUSE 11.2 (I haven't used SUSE in years, but I have a chameleon plushy here somewhere).  Leaning towards the lizard right now.

Oh, and I have a four-port DVI/USB KVM switch too.  Only the single monitor version; there's a dual-monitor version, but it costs $600...  And only one of the computers actually has dual-DVI out; the rest are DVI+VGA.

Update: Tanarotte is happily reinstalling now.  Since I can do that while preserving the 3.2TB of files I've already loaded up, it should be pretty quick and painless.

Update: Pretty much painless, except when I tried to add CentOS Extras during install and the installer dropped dead.  Up and running with the file share intact and OpenVZ installed and updated to the latest stable kernel.  Now I just need to refresh the backups of Haruhi and Yurie and I can attack them too.

Update: Yurie backed up.  Moving on to Haruhi.

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