[K12OSN] Specific Needs Distro Help?

[Brian Chivers]

Shawn Powers wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am currently getting ready to install a new machine to do my:
> 
> Email (postfix with Maildir)
> IMAP (courier I assume, to support Maildir)
> Webserver (Apache of course)
> MYSQL (for web sites)
> Squid/Dansguardian
> 
> My current computer is a quad 500mhz xeon, and it's choking under the 
> strain of all those duties.  I have a dual 3.2ghz xeon that I am going 
> to use, but I'm not sure what distro will give me the easiest time 
> installing things like clamav, spamassassin, etc, etc.
> 
> Anyone have reasons to (or not to) use a specific distro?
> 
> Thanks a ton in advance,
> -Shawn
> 
How about seperating off the Proxy server bit (Squid / Dansguardian) off 
and using something like Censornet (www.censornet.com) on your old 
machine and just leave the new server to do the rest ?

Censornet is really good, can't sing it's praises enough.

Brian Chivers
Portsmouth College

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