On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 12:58 +0000, Graham Butler wrote: > We are currently looking at replacing our Solaris boxes with a flavour of > Linux to run Exim with a focus on Red Hat and Ubuntu. I am trying to collect > some evidence to which OS is being used to run EXIM and why, before we make a > decision. Could you please respond by sending me, or the list, information on > which OS you are using to run EXIM and any information on why your decided to > run it on that particular platform. > > I am also asking other list for similar information on Squid, BIND, Apache, > etc.......
To paraphrase a recent tech saying: you're looking at it wrong. Choose the OS because you/your team have the skills and experience to manage it, rather than because it comes with specific packages available. In $dayjob at Loughborough University we're a CentOS shop now for most of our web/MTA and associated systems, principally because we've gone through RedHat's line of products from the original RedHat 5 (No! not RHEL 5, but RedHat Linux 5 back in the mid-late 90s). Firstly we ran everything on HP-UX, then on Solaris, then on RedHat 5 then 6 then 7 then 8 then 9, then Fedora until that became too "brittle" (and fast moving) after which we had a short dalliance with RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 but found the update entitlement system an awkward thing to manage, so we switched to CentOS 5 and now deploy all our Linux systems on CentOS 6. There are some oddities dotted about; some Debian boxes, some Ubuntu boxes, and one archaic Caldera Linux box which we almost keep running out of a desire to see how long one single-cpu, single-PSU box can run for! Exim has compiled successfully on every single one (we prefer to roll our own rather than rely on backported system updates). Graeme -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
