Home box is dead.

When I get home I've got to figure out what caused my linux box to crash. I've been away from it for a month and it wasn't until I posted links to images stored on my home box that it crashed.

My guess is since I posted the images on LJ, they appears on one of those LJ images websites (sites that just show you images posted recently to LJ), and someone has a bot/script looking for those and attacks them.

Last time someone was able to crash my linux box it was by attacking the sshd daemon and for some reason that caused the TCP stack to puke. It's not harmful in that they couldn't get into the box, it's just annoying.

I need to either:
a) get up2date -u working (which has never worked for me under fedora core)
or
b) go ahead and switch the ubuntu.

I just haven't wanted to switch to ubuntu because I know RPM all the way, and apt-get I'm like a newbie with. I can never figure out with apt-get what the packages are named. Is there a rpmfind.net for debian style packages?

I probably just need a good ubuntu book.

Oh well I was away from the machine for a month and it died on the next to last day here. I'll fix it when I get home. Ubuntu disk in hand.