Re: LUG: OpenSUSE + some... - Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:48:05 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: OpenSUSE + some...

From : Will Lane <will@jxxtech.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:48:05 -0500

I just use the cert that you can make you your own. Yea it gives a
warning, but my server isnt for commercial use so it isnt a problem. On
most mail clients you just install it and everyones happy.

Sam Newnam wrote:
> Yeh, I fought cyrus for a while - gave up and ran dovecot/postfix
> without any problems. Speaking of which...that leads me to another
> thought (SASL, TLS, etc train of thought)
>
> Anyone tried this place http://www.cacert.org/ for root certs? I haven't
> read much about them but probably going to get some for some of my lower
> traffic mail and sftp servers.
>
> I downloaded that free Vmware server deal - haven't messed with it or
> look at the limitations. Thought it would be nice to have a couple diff
> images I could easily screw up and try again.
>
>
> Sam Newnam
> SystemSam Technologies, LLC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted] [mailto:lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted]] On
> Behalf Of Will Lane
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:30 PM
> To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
> Subject: Re: LUG: OpenSUSE
>
> I have been a really big fan of centos. I didn't use it for my email
> server because you would have to configure cyrus and that seemed too
> troublesome at the time. I did do a project for a local church that
> keeps alittle sql database of the sermons and some simple php to allow
> the people to page through the archives. It runs on a old 1.8 P4 with
> centos 4, and I haven't had any trouble. Centos is nice with the longer
>
> release cycle, but the fedora legacy project helps you to extend the
> life of fedora / redhat 9 or 7.3.
>
> Will
>
>
>
> Sam Newnam wrote:
>
>> I downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. I been looking at
>> different flavors lately for some servers we're testing on.
>>
>> Anyone Played with Centos much? I been reading about it some and seems
>> like a pretty decent server platform. I've been running all fedora
>>
> boxes
>
>> (fc4) and have been relatively happy with it.
>>
>> On a related topic, while long, the following post is quite a funny
>> read.
>> http://wwwf.centos.org/127_story.html?storyid=127
>>
>>
>>
>> Sam Newnam
>> SystemSam Technologies, LLC
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted] [mailto:lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted]] On
>> Behalf Of Will Lane
>> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:08 PM
>> To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
>> Subject: Re: LUG: OpenSUSE
>>
>> I just moved my email server from an old redhat 9 box over to suse 10.
>>
>
>
>> Nothing major, just about 10 mailboxes using suse built in IMAP and
>> postfix. Been working great, although I had to disable "Cool and
>> Quiet" on my athlon 64 because it would cause suse to hang for some
>> reason. The update manager on suse works great, although I always had
>>
>
>
>> pretty good success with yum on rh9, esp with the support from the
>> fedora legacy project.
>>
>> just my .02
>> Will
>>
>> Bill Morris wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Knowing how some of ya'll like to tinker
>>> I thought I would make you aware of the
>>> OpenSUSE program.
>>>
>>> It is a fully open version of SUSE that
>>> allows modification, additions, and
>>> improvements by the Linux community.
>>>
>>> http://www.OpenSUSE.org/
>>>
>>> The info on the current build is:
>>>
>>> March 16th: SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta 8 has been released.
>>>
>>> Bill Morris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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