* Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:56:40PM -0600, SF wrote:
>> wanted to know what the opinion is on the most recommended distribution...
>> I've heard Debian, FreeBSD, etc in other areas, but wasn't sure.
[...]
>> I intend this box to be super secure with qmail (for multiple
>> domains) and bind/dns running.
> "Super secure" and "bind/dns" are inconsistent. If you want super
> secure, try djbdns: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html. It's brought to you
> by the same person who gave you super-secure qmail.
Amen.
[...]
> I don't know beans about any of the Linux distributions, so I can't
> make any recommendations.
Jurix, Slackware, Debian. Possibly in this order. Either way, throw in
http://www.lids.org/ and if you're running some flavour of RH, check Bastille.
> You might look at one of the BSDs instead of Linux though. FreeBSD
> (http://www.freebsd.org) and OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) would
> both be good choices.
I run both, and both come with DJB software and many add-ons for it as
ports and packages. I'd go for OpenBSD, dunno why ;-)
--
Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>
"The new glue is, unfortunately, ignored by recent versions of the BIND
cache; the detailed technical explanation for this is that the BIND
company is a bunch of idiots." (DJB)
