On Thu, 3 May 2001, Bob Miller wrote:
> Several people suggested that I colo my own box at Willamette.NET.  If
> I were to do that, what distro is the best starting point for building
> a server?  This box would be a pure server, with the following
> services initially:

FreeBSD 4.3 for pure server stuff. Stability, security, ease of use.

> 
>       DNS
>       Apache
>       mail with some sort of mailing list handler
>       ssh

Install quickly via ports or packages collections.

>       
> I don't particularly want to install Mandrake, then strip everything
> off.  I don't know Debian well enough to set it up right.  What else
> is a good alternative?

FreeBSD 4.3



:-)

jakob

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