[Cialug] Re: Opinions wanted

[Renegade Muskrat <dramaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I run qmail on a 486/66 with 20 MB RAM running OpenBSD. I've never noticed
problems with it being slow. Granted, i'm the only one with a mail account
on the system. How many users are you planning to support on this mail
server, and how nice of hardware do you have available?

At 13:12 6-6-02 -0500, you wrote:
>I was planning on it being a mail server with Qmail. In my reading on 
>Qmail, they recommend FREEBSD as it handles disk writes better, 
>especially with IDE drives. Coarse mine are SCSI, so don't know if it 
>will matter that much or not.
>
>Jonathan Bailey wrote:
>
>>>From my experience, OpenBSD seems a little easier to set up and more 
>>standardized with directories. I set up a Sparc 10 with OpenBSD 3.1 and
XFce 
>>in a very short time. My firewall is also OpenBSD.
>>
>>
>>
>>Jon
>>
>>On Thursday 06 June 2002 12:25, you wrote:
>>
>>>Without starting a Nuclear War. In your honest opinions. Is FREEBSD
>>>worth a damn or not?
>>>
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