OpenBSD is probably the most secure of *NIX distributions. But nothing will stop misconfiguration attacks. Pretty much everything works these days. Use RAID, hardware is faster, software RAID is cheaper. IDE Disks fail all the time, but they are cheap. Probably use RAID5 unless this is critical stuff then go with the mirroring of RAID1. Fast, lots of RAM, room to expand, multi-power sources and multi-network connections through different services are nice too (one goes down, the mail keeps going! Both go down you're hosed). Cheers, Chris On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 23:13, Ron Henderson wrote: > Hello there, > > I am going to build a few Linux mail servers for testing purposes, and > it is possible that I will roll them into production eventually. > > So what hardware do you recommend? I am looking for 100% compatibility, > and trouble free installation. I was thinking of using AMD MP's. What > motherboard, NIC and RAID controllers just work with no issues? > > What Distro? Fedora? RH9, Suse? > > Cheers -- Software Engineering IV, McMaster University PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ 23:25:03 up 4:48, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.17, 0.15
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