[TriLUG] Debian any good?

[Jason Tower]

debian will have everything that you need, no question about it.  
however, i'll toss in my $.02 and suggest that you take a look 
courier-imap/pop instead of UW.  it is a lot more flexible and 
configurable than UW, although it does require the use of Maildir 
instead of mbox to store messages.  i made the switch several months 
ago and love it.

jason

On Saturday 31 January 2004 23:12, Peter Long wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since my harddisk is acting funny I have decided to upgrade the OS on
> my RedHat 8.0 box (and replace the disk at the same time). I have
> been using RedHat and Mandrake for the last 6 years so I think its
> time to try something new. I tried KNOPPIX 3.3 earlier today when on
> Brian Weaver's advice I used badblocks to check the disk (none found
> Brian). I was very impressed with KNOPPIX. It found all my hardware
> and even had the sound working without any tinkering on my part! I
> understand KNOPPIX is based on Debian so I thought I would try it as
> the OS of my Linux machine.
>
> However I thought it might be prudent to ask for advice from current
> Debian users on the list. I mainly use the machine as a NAT gateway
> and firewall as well as my mail-server. I use postfix and University
> of Washington IMAP. I also plan to use shorewall as my firewall. At
> the moment I just use IPtables on its own. I assume the Debian distro
> will contain all these apps.
>
> Any tips or advice would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Peter Long