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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!uhog.mit.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!news.sesqui.net!gryphon.phoenix.net!usenet From: Paul Flores <pflores@mazda.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 20:36:41 -0600 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <31141BB9.1CFBAE39@phoenix.net> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: pauls.mazda.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-950928-SNA0 i386) John Moore wrote: > > This is a question for those that have tried both. Or know of someone > who has. > > We here in the Library have a need to set up a Mail server on our LAN > (Novell 4.1 with TCP/IP) and I was told by folks at the local college > that it coould be done with Linux. Ok, fair enough, I'll do a little > research and see what gives. Viola! there is also another version of > Unix that can run on an intel box. FreeBSD Versionwhatever. Check out Pegasus Mail and Mercury. http://mirkwood.ucc.uconn.edu/pmail.htm Mercury will run directly on your Netware server, and Pegasus Mail will run in either a POP3 Client mode or directly to your netware server. (why waste IPs just so everyone can have email at thier desk?) > Now the problem. All the reading that I've done on the subject seems > to indicate that while Linux supports more varied types of hardware, > FreeBSD is a more stable product. > > Comments anyone ??? That would be my experience as well, but Mercury is VERY stable if all you need to provide is SMTP to a Netware server. Why do it the hard way? Everyone will think your smarter if you do it the easy way! :> Paul Flores Phoenix DataNet