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Stryker:
A lot of people don't have the time or patience to learn something. And lets face it... who wants to go diving into sendmail.cf? You can get a lot of nice utilities to help you for linux. You can get a book and learn how it works. Or if you have the money you can get OS X Server. I prefer linux, I never liked macs. I'm just saying it'd probably be easier for him. As far as functionality, I think what he asked can be done with the mac, so finding ported software shouldn't matter.

Don't take my word for it though, I've never used anything higher than OS 9 (i think it was 9) and never a mac server. From my experience I can only recommend linux, but I would try the mac if I could afford it.

voidmain:
If you have had experience with setting up OSX as an internet server you would likely find out that you have the exact same things to deal with that you do in Linux (except more because of not fully ported software and less people running it in such a situation). Just because you pay more money doesn't mean what you attempting to accomplish is going to be easier or better.

There's not much to setting up sendmail. Most distributions are configured for what you need out of the box, at most adding a param or two to the sendmail.mc file. Same with Apache, imap, pop, ftp, etc, etc. It's certainly not rocket science, as a matter of fact it's stupid simple. And you certainly are not limited to Sendmail, there are several mailers out there. And what do you think you'll be running on OSX? Likely the same services.

Hell, most likely if you are a n00b you are going to want to install Webmin even on the Mac to configure these services, in which case it doesn't matter whether the underlying OS is Linux/OSX/BSD/Solaris/AIX/etc. In webmin it all looks pretty much the same. So again, don't waste the money if you are going to run a web server, you will gain absolutely nothing and probably lose out on quite a bit.

Now, if you want to discuss destop systems I won't argue with you over that. I would imagine that people might have an easier time with OSX in that regard and spending the money may be beneficial to them depending on what their needs are.

[ January 26, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]

rtgwbmsr:
If you want a free solution and have the time to learn things, go with Linux.

If you have $1000 + Any recent mac or 3k XServe (Unlimited client OS and Hardware) and/or no time or patience, then go with OS X Server (XServe)

If you do have the money to spend, go with the XServe. You get the flexibility of UNIX and the ease of use.

[ January 26, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

voidmain:
You mean I can just order an OSX server and not have to learn anything? I can just stick it out there on the net and and not have to configure it?

jarrodatt:
Uhh......Thanks people for the suggestions,
Of course I'm a pool white man working hard for a livin and not sucking off money from the state. So buying a new mac is out(dont care for them anyway). I have linux mandrake 9, red hat 7, and lindows(does anyone know about this one anygood).

I kinda liked linux. However, the command lines oh my good, I really flaked out, its alot to learn, anywhere I can learn this. Oh I'm not that good at it I need laiman terms.......  :rolleyes:

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