Jozef, I am the assistant sysadmin in the Computer Science Dept. at Wichita State Univ. There, we use Debian for everything you mention except PPP. At home, I use PPP dial-on-demand successfully.
My comments below refer to Debian 1.3.1, the latest release. Jozef Bednarik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > all) supports the following features: > > NIS (yellow pages) This works fine. In the CS Dept., our NIS server is a SunOS machine and all the Linux boxed work fine. Debian can also be a NIS server. > DNS Our departmental nameserver is a Debian 486. > automount The Debian package amd provides this functionality. > PPP > PPP dial on demand Dial-on-demand is provided by the Debian diald package. It works quite nicely and is very configurable. > SMTP You have several choices for SMTP (mail transport agent) programs. We use sendmail, but you can also pick smail, exim, or qmail. > POP3 Programs like qpopper provide this functionality. > IMAP4 Debian has an IMAP daemon complete with the latest security fixes. > 3Com fast ethernet adapter 3C905-TX (or at least any other fast ethernet > card available on the market) We use some 3COM cards. We have had best luck with cards based on Digital's chipset. These include Kingston and SMC cards. -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming | Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. ----------------------+---------------------------------------------- Find out how to avoid all those pesky crashes, lockups, application errors, and slow applications at http://www.debian.org -- Debian can replace Windows 95 with a much more stable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
