Roland's big move
Roland is making a big move. Switching blogging platforms (Radio to Movable Type), switching hosting platforms (Windows to Linux), then moving his host to a co-lo. Wow!
This is a Big Job™. Good luck with everything, Roland.
We've talked about this (briefly) before...any reason that you settled on MovableType other than that you are an old Perl hacker? This is a big move, and something you likely only want to do once.
WordPress is still my current choice for best personal publishing system. You know what my choice would be if it wasn't a personal site (although it can be good for that, too). :p
Also, your choice of a Linux distro will likely cause holy wars, but that would also be an interesting topic. If you want easy server-type stuff through a web interface, I'm still pushing E-smith and have written a bunch of tutorials on how to setup e-smith.
Did I ever tell you that I push and push and push in my role of Devil's Advocate? I know it can be annoying, but it's because I truly want to understand the choices people make, to see if I should re-evaluate my own.
Note: this almost got posted to my links blog instead of here. The insidious ease of one-click bookmarklet blogging is what (almost) made me do it. Note to self: kick-start bookmarklet development for Drupal again.
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knoppix and movabletype because of the tools
i'm leaning towards knoppix because it looks easy to install and it does good hardware detection (not that I have esoteric hw)
I like MT because of the tool support (mobile phone blogging apps, w.bloggar, blogJet, NNW, Ecto, etc.)
Drupal and WordPress don't have the tool support!
Nothing to do with Perl but I have to say that the ability to hack in Perl is also a wee bit of the reason!
...Roland
Really?
Knoppix is a desktop install with a full graphical interface...I certainly wouldn't recommend it for a server installation, especially at a colo where you don't have access to the box. It's great for "testing" hardware, but really not the choice for a permanent install. All the distros have good hardware detection these days.
All the things you mentioned are supported by both Drupal and WordPress (heck, w.bloggar even has a pre-setting for Drupal) -- since both support the Blogger, MovableType, and MetaWebLog APIs. You might want to check the WordPress features, and ask away for Drupal stuff.