Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-02-09 Thread Phil Barnett
On 8 Feb 2001, at 12:46, Sean Reifschneider wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:17PM -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: First off, trying to use a .0 release of any Redhat release is,at the very least, foolish. Are you saying that RedHat 7.0 is worse than RedHat 6.1? If so, you either haven't

Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-02-08 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:17PM -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: First off, trying to use a .0 release of any Redhat release is,at the very least, foolish. Are you saying that RedHat 7.0 is worse than RedHat 6.1? If so, you either haven't used RedHat 7.0, or haven't used RedHat 6.1... We have a

RE: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-02-02 Thread SF
of knowledge...) So, I'm getting somewhere, but not where I want to be at this point. Anyway, I'll keep trying. Thanks for all the advice, SF -Original Message- From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:26 PM To: SF Subject: Re: Newbie: Which

[OT] Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-02-01 Thread Vincent Schonau
SF writes: I have access to pretty much any dist and wanted to know what the opinion is on the most recommended distribution... I've heard Debian, FreeBSD, etc in other areas, but wasn't sure. I intend this box to be super secure with qmail (for multiple domains) and bind/dns running, thus

Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Johnson
You'll get a zillion different answers to this question. I won't answer it directly, but I'll throw in my two cents on a few points. On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:56:40PM -0600, SF wrote: I've been working for about 4 weeks now at setting up qmail on my RH 7.0 box. I'm somewhat new to linux (my

Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-01-31 Thread Phil Barnett
On 31 Jan 2001, at 16:56, SF wrote: I've been working for about 4 weeks now at setting up qmail on my RH 7.0 box. I'm somewhat new to linux (my real sys admin background is in WinNT, etc. - but I lost the desire to deal with their licensing schemes...) and I've given up on the RH dist for a

Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-01-31 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:56:40PM -0600, SF wrote: wanted to know what the opinion is on the most recommended distribution... I've heard Debian, FreeBSD, etc in other areas, but wasn't sure. [...] I intend this box to be super secure with qmail (for

Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-01-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:17PM -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: I've been working for about 4 weeks now at setting up qmail on my RH 7.0 box. I'm somewhat new to linux (my real sys admin background is in WinNT, etc. - but I lost the desire to deal with their licensing schemes...) and I've