Re: OS Recommendations?

For OS I would go with Fedora Core since you are familure with Redhat 9. I
went from 8 to 9 then Fedora Core 4. I run FC4 at home and run a webserver
(Apache), MySQL, Postgres. And it works fine. I have yet to set up DNS or
FTP or mail. But I have had a good run with FC so far. I did not like FC5
that much. But I did get it the day it was released and I hear they brought
out some patches that fix it.

Luke

On 6/1/06, Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> wrote:
>
> James Zuelow wrote:
> > I second the Postfix recommendation. I'm not smart enough to have ever
> > figured out SendMail configuration without Webmin, but I can grok
> Postfix's
> > config files easily. (I stand in awe of anyone who uses SendMail and
> doesn't
> > rely on a 3rd party configuration utility.)
>
> It's actually not that hard. When I was first being mentored,
> someone showed me three things:
>
> - How to turn an .mc file into a sendmail.cf on the command line.
>
> - The list of things that could go into a .mc file - the cf/README.
>
> - The two gotchas of .mc editing: what 'dnl' did, and making sure
> that each tick has a backtick. (Admittedly, this is a pain, and
> almost an argument for Postfix anyway) :)
>
> The rest really isn't that hard. Believe me, the only editing of
> .cf files I've done was quick-and-dirty on weird, one-off boxes that
> were set up pre-1997. As soon as the quick-and-dirty was finished,
> I would track down the default .cf file for that version of sendmail,
> diff it against the current one, figure out what .mc lines
> corresponded to it, and then generate the .mc file that should have
> been there in the first place. A little time-consuming the first
> time, but not hard. And much easier to maintain going forward.
>
> This is not to say that I think that moving to Postfix is bad. (It
> was designed for security from day one -- unlike sendmail, which was
> grown organically for a long time as the first big kid on the block.
> And now that milter support is coming for Postfix, my last big need
> only filled by sendmail will be there, so I'll probably switch.) It's
> just that I just don't see .cf as an argument for switching. It's
> like saying "I don't like C because it generates .o files, and I
> can't read those." :)
>
> Simple config = good config, though, so I can definitely see how
> Postfix's configs are much easier to read and maintain than even
> the .mc file.
>
> Royce
>
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