Interesting mail from a friend at Bristol Uni UK

[KevinO]

> Nancy Sollars wrote:
> 
> I found this one funny it maybe my English sense of humour so if it is
> please
> excuse me.
> 
> 
> Here was his post to the Bristol Lug:-
> 
1) Redhat (or Mandrake, Debian, Slackware etc.) should be good to go on
this box if you strip down the install and run it as a server.
2) Why anybody uses a laptop as a server is beyond me. (Built in UPS ?,
small size ?)
3) What is Freevsd ??
KevinO

> Previously Peter Wilcock had writen
> 
> > Not wanting to start a debate on distributions, but I'm in the
> process
> > of choosing a distribution to go a Compaq Proliant P133,32mb,2gig.
> Its
> > going to be used as a web and email server for multiple domains.
> Usually
> > I would opt for Redhat but the system requirements for 7.x are quite
> > large. My current plan is RH62 with Freevsd.
> > Comments Welcome
> 
> I aquired a system with RH6.2 on it, (a 32mb box) stuck it on
> blue-yonder
> and sure enough it was rooted within 3 days. (good excuse to move it
> over to slakware anyway).
> 
> Moral being use a modern distro, or don't be a muppet and leave
> everything
> running (I'd intended to shut of ftp & lpd but got distracted).
> 
> If your setting up web and mail servers then I expect you'd be a bit
> more
> security concious, but I had nothing on the machine anyway.
> Martin
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> 
> 

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