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[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Actually I usually don't even bother reading the docs. And if I do the only thing that I pay attention to is the commands.

Try setting up the Cyrus imap server without reading the docs.

And that's why I use uw-imapd...

 

[Nothinman]

Try using mbox mailboxes when you have over 100k messages in one folder. Cyrus' mailbox format is much faster for large mailboxes. Now I use Courier because it's a nice middle-of-the-road, it uses Maildir which is faster than mbox and it's nearly as complicated to setup as Cyrus.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Actually I usually don't even bother reading the docs. And if I do the only thing that I pay attention to is the commands.

Try setting up the Cyrus imap server without reading the docs.

We're still talking about NetBSD right? If so, then I shall most definitely try 😀, as soon as I get these isos downloaded 🙁.

 

[Nothinman]

Cyrus is seperate from NetBSD. Funny thing is Cyrus is developed at CMU which is right down the road from me, I should go yell at them for making such an overly complicated program =)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Cyrus is seperate from NetBSD. Funny thing is Cyrus is developed at CMU which is right down the road from me, I should go yell at them for making such an overly complicated program =)

Have Ctho9305 do it 😛

Or if I ever make it up to a hockey game in the area, Ill consider it. 😛

 

[BmXStuD]

lycoris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[thornc]

Strange... where are the Gentoo users???

I have to say: "Don't forget Slackware!"

But my favourite linux installation is LinuxFromScratch!!! No weird packaging systems to worry about, just source and in the
end you decide the license! Of course that the pure LFS is all based on GPL, but I've been looking at using packages with other
licenses...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: thornc
Of course that the pure LFS is all based on GPL, but I've been looking at using packages with other
licenses...

Like apache? Or Mozilla? 😛

 

[thornc]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Like apache? Or Mozilla? 😛

More on the likes of Zsh, BSD Utils, nawk, TenDRA and such... problem is that some of this stuff is almost dead!!!

 

[Nothinman]

But my favourite linux installation is LinuxFromScratch!!! No weird packaging systems to worry about, just source and in the
end you decide the license! Of course that the pure LFS is all based on GPL, but I've been looking at using packages with other
licenses...

It's all good until you want to upgrade something large and you have to download, recompile all the dependencies by hand in the right order. Sorry but those 'weird packaging systems' save me a ton of hassle and time.

 

[thornc]

Originally posted by: NothinmanIt's all good until you want to upgrade something large and you have to download, recompile all the dependencies by hand in the right order. Sorry but those 'weird packaging systems' save me a ton of hassle and time.

That's why I only use LFS for my main stable system... the one that only gets updated when is really needed!
Anyway I do maintain a log of each file in package so updating a single package isn't that much of a hassle... I do agree that I might
lose a bit more of time than just typing a single command and that's it!

For the staying on the edge systems and do use Slackware, RedHat or SuSe on this order...