[ale] Clarification - Fedora as a server?

[Mike Murphy]

funny this subject should come up, especially cyrus:

I loaded Fedora Core 2 on an old HP Kayak (ide and scsi inside -- I've 
got a whole mess of 4gb scsi drives I found on the internet for $9 a 
piece in there) last night, and I'm trying to get everything running.

FC1 had the IMAP/POP arrangement I'm most used to: binaries running out 
of xinetd. FC2 wants to use cyrus for this. Thus far I've found cyrus, 
well, baffling (but I'm paging through the docs now).

I wander what was wrong with the old imap installation? For my purposes 
(I want maybe 3 users to be able to read mail off this machine), cyrus 
seems like overkill. Is anyone already familiar with it? It doesn't look 
like I can even use yum to install anything else for imap.

Otherwise, so far FC2 seems ok. As usual, I enjoyed the slick RH installer.

Mike


J.M. Taylor wrote:
> Learning curve is obviously a big question mark.  I have run AIX and (ick)
> SCO in production, and am comfortable on solaris, and I've run debian,
> slack, and RH in production linuxwise, so I think I've got enough
> versatility to do a production move.
> 
> My biggest fear (beyond the dread of cyrus) is locking down BSD.  I think
> I can compile things on any platform (I can get openSSL to compile on
> Windows...I think that says something about perserverance) tho I don't
> know how comfortable a package-management person would be making the jump
> having always avoided packages on any OS.  And I know the philosophy of
> locking down is the same from platform to platform...but I'm a bit nervous
> about the specifics, like packet filtering in BSD.
> 
> And if I go with FreeBSD, are any of you on any lists that I could pester 
> when google fails me?
> 
> :)
> jenn
> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 May 2004, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> 
> 
>>As someone with roughly 0% experience level with BSD, what would the 
>>learning curve be going from Linux to BSD?  I don't want a flame war, 
>>I'm just curious.  Linux has just done what I've needed it to do, and 
>>it's what I'm comfortable with.  If Jenn's comfort level is with Linux, 
>>would the BSD box be something that she could easily move to in a (I'm 
>>assuming) production environment?
>>
> 
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