From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 14 8:59:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web5406.mail.yahoo.com (web5406.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.106.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7998D37B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:59:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20010214165933.4002.qmail@web5406.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [38.185.109.27] by web5406.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:59:33 PST Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:59:33 -0800 (PST) From: Henry Ammons Reply-To: henry@ammons.net Subject: Windows2000 to FreeBSD encouragement needed To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello. I'm a newbie to freebsd who needs some encouragement. I currently run a Win2K Adv. Server with Exchange, and would like to move it over to FreeBSD. A while ago I ran it as a Linux server, but wasn't pleased with the speed as an email server and switched it back to MS. Most likely I had not optimized the install (Mandrake). My desire is to run a server that provides the following: dhcp, ip routing, mail, ftp, web, firewall and proxy (and I want to do this reliably and securely). I don't need gui and all the extra packages that Mandrake loaded up by default--so I guess my question is: am I heading the right direction with FreeBSD? To those of you who know it well: is it what I read (i.e. the most stable and secure *nix)? Can I set it up and let it run with only minimum maintenance and not have to update it constantly (Linux)? Thank you for your input, Henry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message