Selecting the Linux distribution
I started out wanting to use KnoppMyth, but the more I read about it, the more problems that I had with it.
First, I want to host this website on the server too, and KnoppMyth doesn’t seem to be that easy to keep secure. It’s intended to be run completely behind a firewall, isolated from most/all outside connections. I’m sure it would be fine, but I’d like a distro that’s easier to update.
Eventually, I decided to check out Gentoo Linux because it seems to be one of the more BSD-like distros out there. I also really like the idea of Portage, which is very comfortable to me (coming from running this server on OpenBSD for a while now)
There are also lots of howtos for Gentoo, and everything seems pretty simple to do. Overall, Gentoo looks like it’ll be a lot of fun to set up, and easy to configure. It doesn’t hurt that they’ve got AMD64 support fairly well advanced either.