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
