Seriously, both Slackware (with Swaert) and FreeBSD (with ports) will give you a very stable system that is easily update able. I personally would stay away from Debian, which has probably the best update system, just because they are slow to update to recent versions of software.
I personally maintain about 12 ISP mail servers running Slack and about 5 running FreeBSD and 2 or 3 running *shiver* RedHat. Both Slack and FreeBSD give me no problems, although Slack does give you a few more options as to what File System you'd like to run.
If you are more familiar with Linux go with Slack, if you are more familiar with BSD type systems go with FreeBSD, the BSD family is not that much different but there might be a week or so learning curve to them if you've never used them before. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. They both do the job and do it well. I have one Slack Mailserver with 400+ days uptime and one or two FreeBSD systems with more than 200 days uptime.
HTH's
Regards,
Rick
Larry Gilson wrote:
I am running Postfix with SA, Procmail, and Webmin on Red Hat 8.0. I want to move away from RH and am soliciting opinions. I figure that for me, I have 3 viable choices: FreeBSD, Debian, and Slackware. I want a free OS so I don't want to use SuSE, Mandrake, or the like. Nothing against the distros but I just want a free OS. If anyone would care to take a little time to provide an opinion, I would really be appreciative. I am most interested in a free OS that is stable, fairly easy to maintain, has some method for duplication on multiple hosts (thinking of RH Kickstart), fair response to security updates, and of course good access for SA/Postfix/Webmin updates. I have never used any of the BSD family so I would appreciate an understanding of learning curve. I know this is a lot of input needed and maybe more than most are willing to respond to so whatever you can provide for input would be great!
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