Re: Which Linux for just a web server?

Luc The Perverse wrote:

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I happen to like Outlook Express simply because I am familiar with it, and
like the paned window view. Until recently I didn't know any other mail
reader could check my hotmail accounts. For a long time I resisted
changing simply because I couldn't port over my messages.

Now thunderbird can import OE messages. Install it on the windows boot
first.
For hotmail there is hotwayd in linux. It simulates a local pop3 server you
can query using fetchmail. "For every nail there is a hammer (to be made)".

And I do have Linux boxes - I just do my correspondence (sp?) from my
windows box. I tried to go mostly Linux once, but it was annoying
booting

Just correspondence is the main source of virus and spyware infections
nowadays, and makes a lot of windows boxen participate in botnets. The time
you spend in extra virus/malware scanning, "de-quarantaining" attachments
from Outbug Excuse (I bet you even run your windows as admin still, against
better knowledge from linux, and you have html preview enabled) and hoping
Microsofts patchwork next time also comes before the exploits, is all
wasted.

back to windows whenever I wanted to play a windows game. (I spent some
time making starcraft work under Wine only to find the performance was
unspeakable . . .maybe if I had better hardware.)

Yeah. Games are (yet) the only real acceptable reason for double-booting :).

My computer here is dual boot - I have a trusty linux companion next to me
on my old laptop. And in the back room is my headless server - and I'm
about to try to custom design a security system running off a linux
box(we'll uh . . see how that turns out as what I have in mind should
require substantially more electrical background that I have)

Sounds interesting - I hope you don't get locked out of your house by
accident then, one day ;-)

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