Re: A distro to run the common Internet Servers (email, web, ftp, etc)

From: Adam McCarthy (anonymous_at_privacy.net.invalid)
Date: 09/18/05 

Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:12:30 -0400

Aragorn wrote:
> On Sunday 18 September 2005 04:52, Adam McCarthy stood up and spoke the
> following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/
>
>
>>What is a good distro to recommend for running Email, Web, FTP, NFS,
>>and more.
>
>
> All of them! :-)
>
>
>>I love distros like Gentoo since you can customize everything but that
>>would take forever to compile things on my 120MHZ/96MB machine.
>
>
> You could go with the GRP packages. Just pick the ./iso/ image for your
> architecture, and download the Packages CD /.iso/ as well.
>
> Just follow the instructions on how to perform a Stage 3 install and on
> how to install the GRP (Gentoo Reference Platform).
>
> If you have another (and possibly more powerful) Gnu/Linux machine on
> your private network, you can use /distcc/ for distributed compiling.
> The Gentoo manuals cover all that.
>
>
>>I need something with the latest software and reacts pretty fast to
>>security issues.
>
>
> Gentoo is as much bleeding-edge as you can take. ;-) Mandriva will also
> soon be releasing their 2006 Edition - it's currently still in RC2
> stage.
>
>
>>Also, anyone wanna tell me why I should run Linux for my server
>>instead of FreeBSD?
>
>
> Because you want to support the Free Software Foundation, of course. :-þ
>
> No seriously... If you're happy with FreeBSD, then I see no real
> advantage of switching to Gnu/Linux. Both operating systems are
> technically quite good, although Gnu/Linux may have a wider support in
> software packages than FreeBSD.
>
> You have the freedom to choose... ;-)
>
Yeah. I like my Debian machine but it's starting to get annoying because
I find find a reason why it's thinking two of my DNSes are 192.168.1.101
  since they are both my external IP. I can't find out, even though my
DNS servers are correctly, why it's not getting the new IP, I've tried
tons of times. In days it has no been fixed. I added the address once in
Exim4 then removed it but then it started thinking it was 192.168.1.101
(LAN IP of server).

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