Lutheran Social services is in need of a Linux Server setup that the Information Technology department will be using as well. The server is going to act as a hardware firewall in front of the more unstable operating systems(WS2003). We're going to be implementing RAID 5 so we will be needing 3 drives in each rack server.
The Linux server will be used to migrate data or backup data on to the Windows server. On the Linux server we will be running Cent OS(www.centos.org). This operating system is used among many businesses. CentOS-4 is a freely distributable OS built from the source at: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS.
We have chosen Cent OS because it is such a frequently used operating system and the setup should be relitively simple compared to other Linux distributions. There is a significant amount of documentation that is available for us to use for support. Obviously we are concerned about security because this server will be used among the IT students that will be at the College of Information in the upcoming years. We plan of having a smooth install and we for see no apparent problems with having the deployment completed at the end of April of 2008.
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