Holy Crap! No wonder why people shy away from open source unix software. Today I have a completely different set up then what I expected to have for a simple mail server. I have to provide mail for ten domains and personal public service accounts. Hence, the drudgery of this task. I started harmlessly enough with the latest version of Fedora. I believe its Fedora Ten. I don't remember I just burnt three version of the latest public stable releases of the local free unix: Freebsd, Openbsd, and Fedora. Let me emphasis; one place if you don't know about it. Its called craigslist. You can find anything there. Hats off to Craig, thanks dude whoever you are. And while giving thanks to people in that part of the US, the two googlemites thanks to you for buying blogger.
I digress.
I have fedora, freebsd, openbsd and a old Dual P3 scsi2 1U that I bought off of craigslist for $20 (Retail: $2700 circ.1999) The Penguin Computing Pizza Box 1U (PC1U) quite literally will end its life as a mail server. If anyone know the trick to Apples X disk utility utility let me know. It doesn't burn a iso very well; at least not as well as the vista machine did for this particular PC Pizza Box install. I started a install of Freebsd by mistake after changing the cdrom out of the PC1U with some sort of hobbled together mail server.The only reason I can think to have a home mail server is to get mail at home. But I am sure you can think of many more reasons than that. O.K. the install has slowed down over ftp to a low roar of 500K a second. Sustained 500K a second or more and that is considered low end for where I live. I wish I could say I even used it, maybe bursts once in a while. Even the install of the whole FreeBSD 7 is slower then say 2.2.6. It's more like 2.2.7. 2.2.6 seemed to have "snap" to the speed whereas 2.2.7 knew it could carry out the request but took its sweet old time completing it.
Who knows...
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