Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[mha@xxxxxxx (Michael Hasenstein)]

> I hate sendmail. :-) I wonder about alternatives such as qmail, but Kira
> won't have it, and then spends hours swearing at sendmail at least as
> much as she swears by it.

Use postfix. It's as secure as qmail and has the same basic concepts, I
really don't understand why so many people jump to qmail with it's
terrible licensing.

On the other hand, qmail/postfix are NOT easier to set up, not when you
can look at /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.sendmail to see how easy it is to use
M4 sendmail configuration, and if you need anything not in there
(suseconfig is enough for 95%), see /usr/share/sendmail/README for
additional options and add them to the suseconfig file.

access configuration is easy and well documented in the access file
itself, there's absolutely nothing to it! (except for people who don't
know what an IP is - and qmail/psotfix won't be any easier for THEM!)

> It's just less bother to have a standard installation, so you don't have
> to translate installation instructions for other modules. As people have
> proved, it is possible after all to persuade SuSE Apache to work, but my
> preference is for a simpler life. :-)

With suse's modular apache it is as easy as it can get, now that it really
IS modular. Was worse in older suse's, yes.

> server (again SuSE 6.0) I've deployed a few months ago, and we'll
> probably move up to 2.2.12 soon here. I don't really need extra driver
> support in the SuSE kernels as we've already established our machines
> run fine on the standard ones.

It's NOT just drivers!!!

> Is SuSE doing kernel patches? If so, would it not be more sensible to

Of course, everybody does! Linux only tests the hardware he himself has
and has repeatedly said that everything else is not his problem!

> submit your patches to the kernel team rather than re-patching every
> version as it comes out?

Of COURSE do we submit patches! When have you last been on the kernel
list? We have a pretty good relationship with Linus (who uses SuSE at
home, and Redhat at work (to make all sides happy?))

Note: I've nothing to do with making the distribution. Read this mail as
if I wouldn't work for SuSE.


-- 
Michael Hasenstein
http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha/
Private Pilot (ASEL) since 1998

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