From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 4:57:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4A837B405 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 04:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a137.otenet.gr [212.205.215.137]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4RBvUR3017836 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 14:57:31 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4RBvDD4000460 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 14:57:26 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4RABHIA099064; Mon, 27 May 2002 13:11:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:11:17 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bynari with linux emulation? Message-ID: <20020527101117.GD93194@hades.hell.gr> References: <200205270828.BAA10275@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205270828.BAA10275@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-05-27 01:28, Mark Smith wrote: > while looking into replacing an M$ exchange server with FreeBSD, > I ran across a linux product called Bynari Mail Server > http://www.bynari.net/downloads.html > which, in their words,"This server only works with Red Hat 7.2 > Intel distribution and will not run on any other distribution of > Linux. It requires a fresh OS install and uses the entire > operating system." That being said, does anybody think it'll > run on FreeBSD with the Linux emulation? Probably. But I would never choose something called Foo as a replacement for Exchange, if Foo had exactly the same bad design issues that have driven me away from Exchange. In other words, I do not like this "we need the entire server machine, its resources and all, to run ONLY our own programs." Of course this is my humble opinion. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message