Finally, Ubuntu 9.04 on PE4600
Last week was my battle with OS installation on Dell PowerEdge 4600 and after several failures of Fedora installation on the box, I finally manage to get Ubuntu 9.04 running as the system! A big relief for a n0ob like me. 
So, the OS problem was settled and it took me the whole day (last Tuesday) to finish the installation on a couple of servers. Application installation and updates went smoothly. Among the installed components were OpenSSL for additional cryptography on the box for web apps deployment, Apache2 as the web server, MySQL as the database engine and PHPMyAdmin as the database management and VSFTPD for FTP server deployment. Another box (intended for application server) was left untouched after the OS installation as we were running out of DMZ port on the router
The server will be used for PKK's new web server and the next day, the web development begin. The old site is using Joomla 1.0 with about 14000+ users profile that have to be transferred to Joomla 1.5 database. The migration was a bit difficult and confusing not only because of the massive data that I have to handle, but also because of the differences between both versions' database structures. However, the migration was successful and all of the user profiles remain intact. 
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