[TriLUG] Small business server setup

[Greg Brown]

I'll throw out the the "perhaps you should think about using Red Hat 
Enterprise" for this box idea since it sounds like this is a 
misson-critical system which you will probably want support, and not to 
mention regular updates, for.  But I have no idea what "level" of RHEL 
would be required for this kind of server (and I wouldn't mind an 
answer for anyone in the know).

<devil's advocate>
and don't forget to investigate *BSD
</devil's advocate>

..no pun intended.

Greg


On Friday, Nov 28, 2003, at 20:04 US/Eastern, Magnus Hedemark wrote:

> Justin Johnson wrote:
>
>> I will be using RedHat 9.0 and setting
>> up Samba and Postfix for file sharing and mail serving. All clients 
>> (other
>> than my dual boot laptop) will be Windows machines on this network.
>
> Have you considered that support for Red Hat Linux 9 is going away in 
> a relatively short period of time?  I'm using it on a lot of 
> production systems, and a nice chunk of my time now is being spent 
> evaluating alternatives.  You're at a point in time where you can make 
> that move now, before the server is built, rather than ~6 mos.
>
>> Do  I need to make any special considerations for partitioning this 
>> machine
>> when setting it up?
>
> Learn your way around LVM and use it.  You can thank me later.  It 
> will save your butt in a number of different common scenarios.
>
> --Magnus
>
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