of course no-ones mentioned the *BSD's which work nicely as well.<br><br>;-)<br><br>lets face it guys ain;t it nice to have a choice!<br><br clear="all">-- <br>Martin Hepworth<br>Oxford, UK<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 April 2012 14:07, C. Jon Larsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlarsen@richweb.com">jlarsen@richweb.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I find gentoo and slackware far better for any server that doesnt want to inherit a distros hacking mess, but<br>
you dont see me telling someone to piss off redhat and install slackware or gentoo because "that will fix<br>
their problem", no...<br>
It comes down to what distro you know and prefer, but to sit here and tell people to use debian as the cure<br>
all is one of the stupidest and dumb assed things I've seen here to date, especially when it will yield far<br>
more questions than is necessary, and mostly all unrelated to mailscanner, and in the end will likely not<br>
solve the OP's problem, if it does it sure as hell will likely introduce new problems for them.<br>
If it smells like trolling, it tastes like trolling, then it is trolling.<br>
Think about it, how about we say install linux to every windows person who has a problem, yes, I'd love too,<br>
but hardly appropriate in the real world.<br>
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Noel, I did not tell anyone to install anything. Calm down. I simply said debian has pretty good versions of the packages needed for mailscanner. Its worth a look for those that maybe are less than happy. If you are happy where you are at, thats great.<br>
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And anyone that would claim that installing an OS is going to make problems vanish is of course a fool. Go back to my last comment of my 1st post in this thread and re-read it. There are a lot of things an admin needs to have in place to run mailscanner. Putting a cd into a box is the least of those skills.<br>
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In fact, 1 thing I probably should say just for the record, for anyone else reading this :) Is that the choice of your OS is LESS important for a mailscanner installation than whether you are virtualizing it or not.<br>
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The first thing I do is virtualize the setup, That way I can snapshot the setup and if there is any breakage ... especially when updating to a new release ... rollback is easy.<br>
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Someone who is afraid to update his Centos mailscanner box b/c of what may break would be better off spending time to virtualize it rather than switching to any other OS of course.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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BTW, debian lost most of any credibility a couple years ago when they caused the SSL debacle.<br>
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