Les Mikesell wrote: [...]
> Vista is irrelevant. If you read any trade literature at all you would > never have touched it in the first place. Just like any X.0 version of > a linux distribution. But realistically, the problem in Vista was > changing the driver interface, something that Linux does with every > re-compile and enterprise distributions have to work around by > backporting some of the updates into old kernels without breaking them. Well. Linux is not that bad. Especially on Debian, it's very rare to have breakage on upgrade. Anyway... my original point is that Linux desktops have excellent tools for remotely managing Linux servers. Running watch-mimedefang or watch-multiple-mimedefangs on a Linux desktop lets you easily monitor one or dozens of MIMEDefang servers. It seems to me that it's far simpler to just install Linux to get all the convenient tools (even if you do it in a virtual machine) than to fight with evil hacks like Cygwin to manage the server. Cygwin is an admirable piece of work, but it's in the same category of admirability as toilet-training a ten-month-old... yes, it can probably be done with much cursing and sweat, but for the love of all things sane... WHY??? The impedance mismatch between a Windows desktop and a Linux server just seems too high to accept. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
