On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:16:38PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: > > - Exim is more popular > > > > http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201201/mxsurvey.html > This is actually quite interesting. > > Given that Postfix is the default MTA on RHEL/CentOS, SLES (SUSE) and > Ubuntu; meanwhile Exim is only the default on Debian (AFAIK). > > I wonder if this means that Debian is used in more mail servers than the > rest of the distributions together.
Indeed it is interesting. Whereas Debian has a majority of GNU/Linux installation for _web_ servers according to: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all it's a _relative_ majority, smaller than the sum of the other distros you've cited. Here's an experimental way to test the assumption of Debian leadership on the mail server market: let's switch our default to Postfix and see if the figures change :-) </SCNR> -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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