On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 08:17 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > > When all is set up as needed for family and business then bind would > be > > needed (along with LDAP, IMAP and web servers) but I have not > started > Please, don't use Fedora for those. Look how many problems people are > having that are not self-inflicted. A cheap RHEL clone is a good > low-cost choice if you can do the administration yourself, and CentOS > is > the best of the clones for most people. > > If you _need_ the _latest_ software, and can do the administration > yourself, and can tolerate the occasional problem when something's > broken, then Fedora is a good choice. > > If you want low-cost, better reliability and a long service life, the > CentOS. AFAIK CentOS 2.1 lives on, and that predates FC1. When time is too short to look after the system myself, I was thinking of RHEL for the business so site managers could have 'phone support and CentOS for systems I would continue to support. > > > reading on any of them yet. This is why I like this list, a good > > cross-section of Fedora implementations and platforms, with users > > ranging fom novice (me) to well seasoned and experienced. > > I wanted to know how to set up a DNS, so I installed BIND (on OS/2, > it > was _that_ long ago). So that's what I do. > > What sendmail needs is speedy answers to all its questions, and since > I > can configure BIND fairly easily, that's what I do. > > It's probably not the only way (and it surely isn't the only DNS > server), but it works. > > If you plan on doing it anyway, now's probably the time. > A New Year's resolution! -- Regards Simon
