Re: Does it conform our demands?
Jozef,
I am the assistant sysadmin in the Computer Science Dept. at Wichita
State Univ. There, we use Debian for everything you mention except
PPP. At home, I use PPP dial-on-demand successfully.
My comments below refer to Debian 1.3.1, the latest release.
Jozef Bednarik <bed@cedo.cz> writes:
> all) supports the following features:
>
> NIS (yellow pages)
This works fine. In the CS Dept., our NIS server is a SunOS machine
and all the Linux boxed work fine. Debian can also be a NIS server.
> DNS
Our departmental nameserver is a Debian 486.
> automount
The Debian package amd provides this functionality.
> PPP
> PPP dial on demand
Dial-on-demand is provided by the Debian diald package. It works
quite nicely and is very configurable.
> SMTP
You have several choices for SMTP (mail transport agent) programs. We
use sendmail, but you can also pick smail, exim, or qmail.
> POP3
Programs like qpopper provide this functionality.
> IMAP4
Debian has an IMAP daemon complete with the latest security fixes.
> 3Com fast ethernet adapter 3C905-TX (or at least any other fast ethernet
> card available on the market)
We use some 3COM cards. We have had best luck with cards based on
Digital's chipset. These include Kingston and SMC cards.
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