Yay! We have a new server box for the Freitagsrunde running. One of us had it lying around, dead, at his workplace. It turned out, that the PSU was broken. We had to solder it manually and it actually worked :)

The next thing was the RAM: It had 768MB of SD-RAM in three sticks of which only one worked. The others were broken as well, most likely they died together with the PSU. So we bought 2x512MB new SD-RAM which are getting tested at the moment, but they seem to work fine :)

In the meantime we're allready playing around with a test-machine. We're using Debian Etch 4.0 and set up a Xen solution with software raid and LVM support so we can easily resize partitions and swap out the hard disk drives.  The next step is software - centralized authentication and authorization with LDAP for most applications will not be so easy.