You'll get a zillion different answers to this question. I won't answer it
directly, but I'll throw in my two cents on a few points.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:56:40PM -0600, SF wrote:
> I've been working for about 4 weeks now at setting up qmail on my RH 7.0
> box. I'm somewhat new to linux (my real sys admin background is in WinNT,
> etc. - but I lost the desire to deal with their licensing schemes...) and
> I've given up on the RH dist for a number of reasons including the issues I
> have had with setting up qmail - dealing with xinitd vs. more typical "boot"
> scripts and other things I don't understand enough.
> I have access to pretty much any dist and 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.
FreeBSD isn't a distribution of Linux. It's a version of Unix all by itself.
> 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.
> I am familiar with the RH shells and the way they (RH) have the sys set up,
> but I guess I could learn over with a different dist.
Red Hat didn't invent the shell. You'll find the same shells available for
whatever Unix you use (I believe bash is Red Hat's default shell).
I don't know beans about any of the Linux distributions, so I can't make any
recommendations. 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.
Chris
