On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:01:24PM -0500, 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!
I'd highly recommend FreeBSD. The ports collection will make your life easier, particularly in comparison with RPMs. I use FreeBSD with Sendmail/MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin, and it works wonderfully. It's also a fast install, so we just maintain two machines with an identical configuration manually. Not an ideal solution, but it works for us. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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