Re: OS Recommendations?

On Thursday 01 June 2006 03:57, Brian ThunderEagle wrote:
> I havn't worked on my server in a while and just a few days ago
> realized that RedHat stopped giving out free versions after release 9.
> So I need some recommendations on what I should use now. I am
> downloading Fedora and was going to try that out, but does anyone have
> any recomendations for a good OS? I am going to be using it to run a
> webserver, ftp, mail, and dns. (I also want a good OS to use as a
> desktop too for another computer. Much progress on game support?)
>
> Also, in the past I always used sendmail for my mailserver, are there
> any recommendations for a different mailserver? Something more secure
> or with more features? How about a spamfilter, is there a good
> mailserver with a built-in spam filter? If not in one package, what is
> a good spamfilter to use these days?

Ubunu just released its latest version. It will have 5 years of support,
seems to be getting attention from ISV's, good for server or desktop. It
is a Debian based system which is a change from RH.

Novell/Suse is begining to have some interesting new features, not sure if
it is ready for the rock solid designation of a BSD or Debian :-) system
has, but the Suse Enterprise server 10 is a few months away. The OpenSuse
stuff is not to bad for a desktop,imho, but not quite there yet.

-- 
Greg Madden
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