Thanks Rick! I appreciate your input and time. Your input is very consistent with everything I read. It is great to have direct and experienced feedback. I know this is a religious subject so I appreciate the balanced response.
Regards, Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Macdougall > > Flame wars abound!!! > > 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! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
