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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Setting up a Mailserver Date: 14 Jul 1996 20:33:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4sblib$c7k@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4savcs$3ke@nuacht.iol.ie> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E tintori@iol.ie (Piero Tintori) wrote: (mail, SLIP, PPP, etc.) > What software would be the best to use considering that my budget is > small. Somebody mentioned that I should install a Unix clone such as > Linux or FreeBSD. Does anybody have experience of using these? > Personally I would like to use a dos/windows based system. Well, then you're definately asking in the wrong group. :) I think most people here would never use something like DOS or Windows for such a purpose. But we are obviously biased, in that we already know how to setup and use a unix system. It will in any case suffice your needs, but if you don't have the slightest clue about unix (and are not really willing to learn it), you will believe it were hard to administer. (We are convinced that this is not the case, but you will first not understand why we are...) On the plus side, you'll get a lot more of stability with either of the systems you've mentioned, coupled with true multitasking -- some- thing you would never get out of DOS or Windows (<= 3.11). That means, you don't have to fully dedicate your machine for the server, instead, you can log into it as well as all the other users. Actually, all parties are nearly equal to the operating system, with about the only exception that you are able to restrict administrator logins (called `root' here) to the system's virtual consoles, so even people who accidentally know the administrator password won't be able to get in via the modems or network (without using at least one other non-privileged account). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)