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Red Hat and Debian fans debate desktop Linux

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:28:27 +0000

Mail from longtime reader Steve Mahaffey on the state of desktop Linux. My responses interspersed within:

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Analysis of the Apple Mac Xserver

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 20 May 2002 13:05:17 +0000

Given my positive reaction to the Compaq Proliant DL320, Svenson e-mailed and asked me what I thought of Apple's Xserver.

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A Saturday mixture

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:33:20 +0000

Luke again. As I was making the video about Luke, another member of my church was putting together a Bible study to wrap around it. I delivered that study to my small group last night. It was the first time I'd ever taught--to this group at least--using someone else's material. I write my own and teach others to write their own, because there's no way that a book written by distant authors can be in touch with a group's particular needs. The Bible itself plays by a different set of rules, but taken in its entirety, it's a pretty intimidating book. But a human taking poignant bits out of it and showing people how to use them--that works.

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Wintendo must go…

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:35:00 +0000

Some l337 h4x0r is watching this as I type. Yeah, I got the new virus. Fortunately it doesn't look like it's smart enough to look at an IMAP store, so it didn't replicate. That'll be the last time I use Outlook at home, and maybe at work. Yes, Linux has security vulnerabilities, but they're benign compared to this crap. Especially if you're behind a firewall with Telnet and even SSH access turned off. A root exploit on a machine disconnected from the world doesn't do any good.

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An easy DIY mailserver

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:25:37 +0000

Mail the easy way. It figures that I would find this now, after blowing most of a Saturday trying to get a mailserver set up. This won't give you any nifty spam filtering, but if you want a fast, reliable, secure, mail server with every other nifty feature you could want, run to Qmail the Easy Way. There, you can download a script that goes and gets all the sources you need and compiles them for you. You get Qmail for SMTP (the fastest and most secure mail server available for Linux), Courier IMAP and POP for receiving, DJBDNS for name resolution, and a nifty Webmail interface. Combine that with your favorite Linux-from-sources distro, and you'll have a rock-solid, fast-as-possible mail server for a whole lot less money than an Exchange server. And the hardware requirements are far lower. Dan Bernstein, the author of Qmail and DJBDNS, claims Red Hat used a 486 to test Qmail and it performed so well they just threw it into production.

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A Linkfest for Wednesday

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:09:12 +0000

Sorry, I didn't feel much like writing at all last night. I stayed up too late configuring my new fetchmail-procmail-courier-exim mailserver, so I felt fried all day. So I'll just say this: The common UW-IMAP server that comes with most Linux distros is junk. It just works, yes, but it's dog slow. Courier-IMAP is a pain to compile, but if you can find a binary for it, configuration isn't too painful, and it absolutely flies. With my mail served off a Courier-IMAP server, reading it with Sylpheed, the speed is much higher than that of Outlook Express with the mail stored locally. Connecting to my UW-IMAP server was painful.

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Mail server successful!

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 06:32:59 +0000

A lightweight Windows web browser. Windows!? What's that? Yes, I still use it at work, even though my Windows time at home is dwindling. A couple of weeks ago I told you about Dillo, a superfast, minimalist Web browser for Linux that's in development. It's still considered alpha-quality; I've had absolutely no trouble with it but some readers report it crashes on them occasionally. I've had enough success with it that I want it at work.

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More of the same.

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:33:17 +0000

As I watched my Royals' parent club, the Oakland Athletics, play the Yankees, I burned a CD under Linux for the first time. I honestly don't remember when I last used my old Sony CD-R (it's so old it's a 2X burner!) but that was under Windows.

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Time to talk about big, manly computers

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:09:13 +0000

Enough of this other stuff. I actually felt like messing around with computers yesterday. I read about Eric Raymond's new PC (IBM was nice enough to finance building an obnoxious Linux box for Mr Raymond and Linus Torvalds), which is, in short, a dual Athlon-1200 setup with two big SCSI drives. Unfortunately, he neglected to mention how much memory he put in it. I'm assuming he splurged and got a gig or two. His comment? "I tried hard to gold-plate as much of the system as possible and load on all the extras and accessories I could, and was nevertheless unable to raise the total parts bill over $7,000."

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I’m posting this from Linux because Windows lost my last post

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 17:40:31 +0000

I wrote up a post in advance, then against my better judgment I sent in a boy to do a man's work. Windows crashed on me. Granted, it doesn't happen too terribly often, but when you lose work, that's not much consolation.

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