On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:55:51PM +1000, Bruce Young wrote:
> No, not for the heck of it... the Unix server it's on now is not directly
> controlled by me (our Faculty) and is being decommisioned by the current
> owners. We have NT servers now in own control. The OS wasn't my choice, but
> as it is what we have... I need a plan to move.
Then I'd advise dumping NT, installing Linux (which will almost certainly
run on the same hardware), and using majordomo/majorcool or maybe MailMan.
And don't tell them. 1/2 :-) You can still control the box.
BTW, here's something that came across on the inet-access list; it's
yet another way that Linux is going to make some people very happy
and drive others bonkers.
We are also using Linux as routers/firewalls. Our twist is that the
boxes have no harddrives! Instead we have hacked the software a little
and now run 100% from CD-ROM. Bascially / is on a ramdisk. Our typical
box has a 60MByte RAM disk out of 128MByte total RAM. Very fast.
We can change config using ssh, save stuff using scp or make a new
CD-ROM from time to time. Either way, zero maintenance. No backups
necessary either. Works with any PC that will boot from a CD. One of
our beta testers says that a P2 266 will packetfilter 50MBit/sec easily.
Linux doesn't just kill Microsoft's NT and Solaris. It also eats
Cisco for lunch.
My advice to all of you is that if you have not already learned how
to install and use Linux, that you might want to start. Soon. NT is
already dead (thanks to Microsoft's inability to release a robust OS,
let alone on time), and Linux is pounding the nails in the coffin.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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