Tom Diehl <tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 00:40 05/10/2006, you wrote:
I was just speculating how hard it would be to turn my Fedora
box (which is up all the time) into the central system all
my other computers go to for information (smtp, dns, imap, dhcp,
etc).
....
Since you are already using fedora, you might want to look at Centos. That is
a rebuild of RHEL. 7 year support IIRC.
Been doing that here for several years. My "server" (Athlon 1700+ with
768MB RAM) is currently running CentOS 4.4. I originally started out
with WhiteBox 3 (RHEL 3 equivalent) but the support and community didn't
seem to be there. I wanted to get to an RHEL 4 equivalent with a 2.6
kernel so I could run pam_abl. I installed CentOS 4.3 right after it
was released and yum upgraded the system to 4.4 automagically about a
month ago. Pretty slick. The box provides my firewall/NAT server, DNS,
DHCP, IMAP, POP, SMTP, CUPS, backup (Amanda), Samba (print and shared
disk) and NFS. It sounds like a lot for a low end box but the only
users are my wife and me.
[root@fraud ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.4 (Final)
[root@fraud ~]# uname -a
Linux fraud.davenjudy.org 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL #1 Tue Aug 22 23:56:05 CDT
2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@fraud ~]# uptime
09:28:20 up 32 days, 20:37, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Cheers,
Dave
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