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I would chose OpenBSD for it's security, it's adherence to standards and
it's policy of "just works".
I would chose Debian because of the package updating system.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
&gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of J.M.
&gt; Taylor
&gt; Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:21 AM
&gt; To: ale at ale.org
&gt; Subject: [ale] Fedora as a server?
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; I've got to move from one hosted server to a newer one (well...am being
&gt; strongly encouraged and think it's an awfully good idea).  My current
&gt; machine runs RH7.3, on which I've conquered problems with cyrus and exim
&gt; as well as happily running apache 2, php, mysql and a small handful of
&gt; other things.
&gt;
&gt; My options for a new server are Fedora 1, something called Tao Enterprise
&gt; Linux that I've never heard of, and freebsd 4.8.  I can pay a good bit
&gt; extra to do RH Enterprise, which I do not need nor want.  The machine is
&gt; hosted at Xilogix if anyone has any Xilogix-specific advice -- I've been
&gt; really happy with them so I'm not interested in investigating other host
&gt; options that may have other OSs.
&gt;
&gt; Is Fedora even suitable as a server OS?  What are the differences between
&gt; it and 7.3 from a strictly command-line point of view (ie - does it do
&gt; startup scripts differently? Does it put its libraries someplace
&gt; different? Is it easy to lock down without breaking?)  What about going
&gt; from Linux to FreeBSD?
&gt;
&gt; Has anybody compiled cyrus (from source -- _not_ a package) on either
&gt; Fedora or FreeBSD?  Any pros/cons?  Cyrus is my big sticking
&gt; point here --
&gt; I know how to make it work on RH7 and am afraid of moving it.
&gt;
&gt; What it boils down to is -- what would you pick to run your web/email
&gt; services?
&gt;
&gt; All advice is appreciated.
&gt;
&gt; Many thanks
&gt; jenn
&gt;
&gt; --
&gt; Jenn Taylor
&gt; jtaylor at onlinea.com
&gt;
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&gt; with propaganda
&gt; and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning
&gt; processes, and
&gt; make him something less than a man.
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