From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 10:40: 8 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 A3A4F37B421 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from wxp.homeip.net (adsl-212-101-16-119.solnet.ch [212.101.16.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D41F43E75 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pbrossin@swissgeeks.com) Received: (qmail 22272 invoked by uid 8); 17 Nov 2002 18:39:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP id smtpdGdti0V; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:39:55 EST Received: from swissgeeks.com (pierrick.wxp.homeip.net [10.0.0.50]) by server.wxp.homeip.net (AvMailGate-2.0.0.9) id 22260-09D1B6D0; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:39:55 +0100 Message-ID: <3DD7E277.40202@swissgeeks.com> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:39:51 +0100 From: Pierrick Brossin Organization: SwissGeeks - http://www.swissgeeks.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021026 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Boothman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Easy Server References: <3DD7B0DE.2060003@swissgeeks.com> <3DD7D120.40506@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <3DD7D120.40506@cream.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AntiVirus: OK! AntiVir MailGate Version 2.0.0.9; AVE: 6.16.0.0; VDF: 6.16.0.17 at wxp.homeip.net has not found any known virus in this email. 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 Andrew Boothman wrote: > 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 tried lately but I'm afraid of security :) Thousand of people are using distributions like SME and you're almost your firewall settings and rules are OK. By OK I mean that if someone get hacked he can report it to the developpers and the hole get fix. On FreeBSD I'm afraid to do a bad firewall... > 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? I already tried to make my own server but there were to many problem for not so much time! Thanks for your answer I have to think about making my own server myself but last time I ended with the PC under my desk with no cable plugged.. and I couldn't remember what was the last thing I did two months ago :P -- Pierrick Brossin IT Employee 15, Ch. du Château, 1422 Grandson, Switzerland Tel Prof: +41-327201423 Mobile Priv: +41-794137145 Mail Prof: pbrossin@quark.ch Mail Priv: admin@swissgeeks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message