Yeah I'd love to hear about this too. I can normally get a debian server up and running in about 2 hours (that's without X) depending on what's needed including Web, Mail, Samba, Webmin, and postgresql or mysql.
Art Quoting Bob Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > : What I do see that makes people listen is how much money they will save. > 5 > : computers with Windows X-tra P-aint + office products = $1000's of > dollars. > : Right now, that may speak volumes. My brother-in-law was installing a > : Linux file server for my father-in-law's company to replace the one > running > : windows. One of the employees started bashing Linus and Linux. He > looked > : at him and said that this may take a bit more time to set up, but it will > : save the company 500 bucks a month. Shut him right up. > > What takes longer to set up? I'm pretty sure that a ?indows server would take > me days longer than a Linux > server to set up.. Maybe I should try to set up both sometime to see.. I've > never worked on setting up a > ?indows server. Could we do a UUG workshop on server set up benchmarks > sometime maybe?? It might make a good > article for the UUG website!! I can setup a functional > DNS/Mail/Web/DHCP/Samba server running Linux in about > 1.5 to 2 hours from blank drive to live.. Not bragging, just stating my > experiences.. > > Later, > > Bob > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
