I've set up a server where security is a main concern. As we wanted FTP, but didn't want our passwords sent in the clear, we have the following services:
1. SSH-FTP 2. SSL-FTP (which falls back to standard FTP if the FTP client doesn't support it). There is also SSH available to those who want it.
No matter which they choose, our clients are always in their own individual chrooted environment. It is used for modifying their web sites (yes, we also have Apache 1.3x, but didn't bother with it for uploads).
I have a largeish DVD collection - about 55 movies. I've always taken great care in looking after all discs. I've only had one fail to the point where the movie is totally unwatachable - Independence Day, but I just brought the Aliens Box Set a month ago so it could be worse soon.:(
When I first watched ID4, it worked perfectly. Months later, I went to watch it again only to find it was totally unplayable (past the main menu) under any of my 4 DVD players! It had never been used in the meantime! I couldn't explain it.
Guess who's not going to be buying another movie DVD?
Totally agree. I used Redhat, which has had mistake after mistake. Crap compiler in the 7.x series (and broke my Corel WordPerfect). 8.0 crashes more than any other distro I've tried, and it takes way too long to find a darn terminal.
A so called Debian expert couldn't even put Debian on my hard disk back when 2.2 was out. I eventually figured out the problem (after a few days on persistance), but hated the way most packages were configured by default. Everything seemed horribly out of date, and most of my hardware wasn't officially supported (which was never an issue in RedHat).
SuSE's GUI tools always corrupted my files if I manually edited anything by hand, and the tools always crashed on me anyway.
LFS requires staying at your computer when installing (which takes a long time being from sources). Come across a package that doesn't compile (which happened frequently) and you're screwed (unless you're a programmer).
Enter Gentoo: I've only ever had 3 packages that didn't compile, and 2 of them were fixed within 48 hours. They were non-essential packages anyway, and this was the 1.4 pre-release so problems were to be expected. It is extreamly stable, fast, and quite up-to-date (although you can choose older packages if you require). Type a single command (like emerge gnome) and you can just forget it while it does it's stuff.
Everything is compiled just the way you wanted. This is just the distribution I've been waiting for.
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I've set up a server where security is a main concern. As we wanted FTP, but didn't want our passwords sent in the clear, we have the following services:
1. SSH-FTP
2. SSL-FTP (which falls back to standard FTP if the FTP client doesn't support it).
There is also SSH available to those who want it.
No matter which they choose, our clients are always in their own individual chrooted environment. It is used for modifying their web sites (yes, we also have Apache 1.3x, but didn't bother with it for uploads).
I have a largeish DVD collection - about 55 movies. I've always taken great care in looking after all discs. I've only had one fail to the point where the movie is totally unwatachable - Independence Day, but I just brought the Aliens Box Set a month ago so it could be worse soon. :(
When I first watched ID4, it worked perfectly. Months later, I went to watch it again only to find it was totally unplayable (past the main menu) under any of my 4 DVD players! It had never been used in the meantime! I couldn't explain it.
Guess who's not going to be buying another movie DVD?
Totally agree. I used Redhat, which has had mistake after mistake. Crap compiler in the 7.x series (and broke my Corel WordPerfect). 8.0 crashes more than any other distro I've tried, and it takes way too long to find a darn terminal.
A so called Debian expert couldn't even put Debian on my hard disk back when 2.2 was out. I eventually figured out the problem (after a few days on persistance), but hated the way most packages were configured by default. Everything seemed horribly out of date, and most of my hardware wasn't officially supported (which was never an issue in RedHat).
SuSE's GUI tools always corrupted my files if I manually edited anything by hand, and the tools always crashed on me anyway.
LFS requires staying at your computer when installing (which takes a long time being from sources). Come across a package that doesn't compile (which happened frequently) and you're screwed (unless you're a programmer).
Enter Gentoo: I've only ever had 3 packages that didn't compile, and 2 of them were fixed within 48 hours. They were non-essential packages anyway, and this was the 1.4 pre-release so problems were to be expected. It is extreamly stable, fast, and quite up-to-date (although you can choose older packages if you require). Type a single command (like emerge gnome) and you can just forget it while it does it's stuff.
Everything is compiled just the way you wanted. This is just the distribution I've been waiting for.
You are lame.
I'm sure you must mean GNU/Linux. ;)
PC Mail is disabling many of their e-mail services now due to financial difficulty. I used to have an account boltronics@pcgeek.net which I really liked, but it has since shut down. PC Mail's only income (as far as I know of) was through bannar ads.