I missed the original messages but I will add my $.02 worth here. I have used Debian as a server for a lightly used home LAN and SMTP <--> UUCP mail and news gateway for about 9 months.
SOme of the things that I am most pleased with are the continuing upgrades and ease of upgrading, stability, and the configuration of the packages. For the most part, software is in a standard configuration that conforms to the author's documentation and files are located in accordance with the Linux Filesystem Standard making things easy to find when you need to. The Debian system also uses samba for acting as the LAN print server. It is also the SMTP and POP mail gateway and a news server for local machines as well as providing mail and news for UUCP neighbors. All of this functionality would cost a fortune from Microsoft and I would probably spend many hours on the telephone with them trying to get things to work if my employer's NT network is any example. With the addition of shadow password support in 1.3, I have chosen Debian over Caldera Open Linux - Standard for a system that will have a permanent high-speed connection to the internet. NOTE that I like Caldera ... it is just that their software has not yet arrived and I am under a time constraint. You can always grab a copy of Debian ... even if it isn't "ready" yet, there are always folks here to lend a hand in getting me over the rough spots. This favor is returned when possible. Debian is not "point and click" or "plug and play" but then again, neither are the operating systems that claim to be, really. On Tue, 13 May 1997, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote: > Thanks, really. Thank you very much for your comprehensive good > news! > Andreas. > > : I use Debian Linux boxes for nearly all important (i.e. can't afford any > : downtime) internet related servers. I also use it as the main Windows > : SMB file server (with samba) at my main job. > : ... George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
