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.
Don't forget Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org) - it might be what you're looking for. :)
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