As noted elsewhere in these forums, following a fairly catastrophic hardware failure, I am now awaiting delivery of a nice new HP Proliant Microserver.
I also intend to transition to a newer OS, from the old system running a very ancient and long-since unsupported Fedora. It will, of course, be another Linux , that is not negotiable. I am currently thinking 'CentOS', mainly as (I think?) it has a reasonably long support cycle, overcoming my biggest regret in choosing Fedora last time around.
So the main question I am posing...
is CentOS a good choice?Duties of the old server, that I want to continue, include...
Mass storage, via Samba.
Subversion source control.
Bugzilla bug tracking.
MythTV backend which in turn mandates good kernel support of DVB TV tuners.
Cron backup scripts that 'suck in' snapshots from other networked machines, and perform IMAP mail backups using 'getmail'.
Another essential, since it will be powered virtually 24/7 and loaded with several HDDs, is good power management, such as disk spin down when idle.
A further question... When my new hardware arrives, as a temporary measure while I ponder the full rebuild, is it reasonable to expect my existing (ancient Fedora) system disk to boot and run in the new hardware?
Any well-reasoned opinions on any or all aspects, or even just chat, would be welcome.