With the impending termination of support for Red Hat Linux, I have been working on getting all my old Red Hat systems moved to Gentoo. I'm mostly done with the ones I care about, but the big one still remains. Puck won't be completely moved off RHL by December 31, when security patches will no longer be released, but I'm aiming to have the boot system moved over to Gentoo. (Users only see a system image inside a chroot, so there's not much in the boot image.) Ariel's boot image has already been converted to Gentoo and is working fine, but with puck there's much pressure to get it right the first time since so many people are relying on it and it's a bit of a drive to get to.

Hardware upgrades are happening as well. I'll be adding another 256MB of memory as well as a longer-lasting UPS. Of course, with the addition of a SmartUPS, I also feel obligated to set up proper UPS monitoring software, so that's consumed a bit of my time as well. It works fine on ariel, and hopefully the configuration will transfer easily.

Downtime this weekend should be a couple hours at most. Those who use puck regularly will receive a separate announcement, including a specific time for the outage.