On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Scott wrote: > Has anyone heard of or using Mandrake in an ISP environment? I have taken > over operations > for an ISP and the servers in place are running FreeBSD and I want to > covert them over to Linux. > I have been using Mandrake for home use, but have never used it in an heavy > production environment. > I scanned www.mandrakebizcases.com and did not see any ISP's. > > Thanks, > > -Scott
Scott, let me answer your question with another question. If you drove a chevy pickup truck for a while and then purchased a ford pickup truck of the same basic design and size would truck two be able to do the same work as truck one? If you plowed field one with a Massey-Furgeson tractor, and then a week later had to use a Catapiller to do field two would you still be able to get field two plowed? the answer is of course yes, and I don't mean to over simplify the question, nor do I wish to sound condecending. I merely wish to point out to you that *nix is *nix. FreeBSD, RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux are all basically the same under the covers of the Xfree86 interface. It's all *nix and it's all good! they all use the same basic foundation for the filesystem; they all make use of the make Unix syhstem tools. on and on and on. If redhat can do it SuSE can do it, and if SuSE can do it Mandrake can do it. ya get my drift. the only "real" difference between the distros is the X interface, the collection of "X" packages included that make the distro unique from the others. apart from that they're all Linux and they're all good. as for could Mandrake work in an ISP environment?...do you really want to be to take the time to list all the ISP's that I know that use one of the above mentioned flavors of Linux to serve their customers? I hope not cause I'm writing this message at work and I've got a few more things I need to get done before I leave for the day. as an aside, I've got two servers running here at work running Mandrake. One does webserver/mailserver/database server duties as well as ftp service. the other is a back up server for the snap server we've got running on the network. AT my home I've got Mandrake runing on a very busy network taking care of file server/mail server/ftp server/ webserver/MySQL server/and firewall gateway all being done on an AMD K6-233 hooked up to a cable modem. It does beautifully. Were it not for the occasional T-storms taking out the power, or the wife blowing a breaker now and then vacuuming this machine would never experience any downtime. so...yeah. I'd say its a pretty safe bet to use Mandrake in an ISP environent. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!"
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