From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 9:25:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95C637B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:25:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A8F43E3B for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:25:28 +0000 Received: from cream.org (unverified [62.31.102.197]) by pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:25:25 +0000 Message-ID: <3DD7D120.40506@cream.org> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:25:52 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierrick Brossin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Easy Server References: <3DD7B0DE.2060003@swissgeeks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Pierrick Brossin wrote: > I've done a deep search on google and can't find any distribution like > SME but > FreeBSD based. > Actually, for those who do not know SME, it's a distribution based on > RedHat and > basically it can install a complete server in 10-15 minutes. FreeBSD is basically a one distribution operating system. Although there are plenty of people you can buy a distribution off (www.bsdmall.com, www.freebsd-services.com, ...) all the distributions tend to be pretty similar and I'm certainly not aware of anyone doing specifically a server distribution. However, I'm not sure what the advantages of such a distribution would be? Are you surely not better to do a standard installation of FreeBSD and then add the services you need (Apache, MySQL, Samba, Netatalk,...) from the ports collection as you need them? That way you can totally customise your server and you will get a better understanding of how everything works in the process.... I would advice doing a test installation of FreeBSD (see www.freebsd.org/handbook) and having a go at installing the packages you need. What do you think? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message