Fedora 6 Just Released as I’m Building & Configuring New Web Server

Well what do you know? I just started building my web server last week and finished the hardware looked on the Redhat site to see if they had gone to Fedora 6 yet and last week they had not released it yet. I was looking just to make sure I had the link correct Redhat website link a few moments ago before emailing it so someone (late night and my eyes sometimes play tricks) and wouldn’t you know they have Fedora 6.
There appeared to be some issue with the Redhat site so I couldn’t download it there so I went to my one of the mirror sites that usually gives me a nice fast download and with the issues I have typing and the nice fast 20mb up and down unregulated I have the DVD ISO will probably just about be finished downloading by the time I publish this.
I had so many other projects and urgent matters to attend to last week I really hardly got time much time to work on getting the new server up to speed on Fedora 5 so placing Fedora 6 on there shouldn’t be too big of a deal unless its too buggy right now but hey I love working those things out.
I had just configured Apache and my ftp Monday after watching Monday Night football. I started downloading the latest flavors of my Blog software “Movabletype 3.3” and had just completed the mt-check.cgi before going to bed. I had just gotten ImageMagick on my system and was trying to figure out why mt-check.cgi said it didn’t see it even though it was loaded with ImageMagickPerl
O h well I will ftp what I downloaded over to another one of my systems and then install Fedora6 clean on my new Web Server system. My current Web server system I built earlier this year with Fedora 5 will be the backup. This way I can make sure everything is working when I move to the new system.
I will then update my backup Web server system and add anything new and it will become my running Web server while I upgrade my other system later on and back and forth until I need to move to a newer larger HW platform in a couple of years depending on technology. My last two systems I alternated like that lasted for at least two years.
Well looks like the normal download mirror sites I use don’t have Fedora6 there yet so I went to one of the slower sites so my download isn’t quite ready and the “torrent” wasn’t up when I last checked on the Redhat site. So since I have the rest of this week off I’m going to ftp my files over to another system, pop some popcorn and watch some movie I Tivo’d and maybe fall asleep in front of the TV!