I will be setting up a new machine (Dell XPS 410) for use as a server supporting my domain. I have installed FC3 and FC5 distributions in the past on much more basic machines. What I was wondering is with this machine is there anything in specific I should be concerned with during the installation. I am planning on installing FC6.

The machine:
Intel Core Duo Processor E6400
4GB of dual channel DDR2 SDRAM
256 nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache
1TB performance RAID 0 (2 x 500GB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs)
16x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW)
Integrated 7.1 channel audio

Is there anything special I will need to do for the RAID drives? I read through the sticky regarding the nVidia drivers. Will I be able to bring the system up with drivers in the distribution in a basic video mode prior to installing the nVidia drivers?

The machine will come with Windows Media installed. I have downloaded the distribution in both the individual cd-rom versions and the DVD version. Is the DVD version the preferred installation method (no disk changes)?

I will also have a 500 GB 7200 RPM LAN network storage drive for backups. Any recommendations on a good package for running backups?

The machine will also have an APC Back-UPS RS 1000 VA. Are there specific drivers or software needed to support intelligent shut downs if a power outage occurs?

The machine will ultimately be running web, mail and ftp servers. Besides Spamssassin and the firewall are there any other packages I need to consider for security for the mail server? I am also considering installing VOCP to support voice mail as well.

Are there any other things I need to consider?

Thanks

I realize that this is the Fedora core forum, but would there be a different distribution that I should consider. I haven't really played with other distributions and am familiar with the Fedora distributions, having run a server on both FC3 and FC5, but I am open to other suggestions if they would make more sense.

Budget is an issue so I would prefer free distributions. Or at least ones that don't cost too much. RHEL is simply too expensive right now.

1st of all, I strongly recommend to not use FC distro because of support issue, please change to centos (it is free and very similar to redhat and FC very similar to redhat too).

However, I never try your server before, so I have no comment on your previous post.

Re backups: http://linux.about.com/od/softbackup..._Solutions.htm
I've heard good things about Amanda and some people swear by Bacula.

As for FC vs Centos, that's up to you if you know FC well. As you may know, Centos is just RHEL re-badged, so if you need 100% comaptibility with RHEL, go there.