Re: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)
Rev. Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> wrote:
> You need MTA. You just do. But you don't need a complex MTA. If you
> consider sendmail the standard to judge by, most everything is smaller,
> simpler, or better for personal systems. My personal choice for an MTA is
> qmail. The savings in configuration and maintenance (or lack of needing to
> do either) far outweighs the time required to wait and watch it compile.
To be fair: if you install qmail you also have to have gcc, bintools,
make, libc*-dev, and maybe more. [Also, on a slow system without much
disk it can take several hours to compile -- not that I think this is
a likely consumer configuration for next year.]
> You don't need ftpd and telnetd. You probably do need an http server for
> documentation, but then again dhttpd is small and does the job nicely.
Much better than a server would be a browser which supports cgi for
local browsing. [Warning: this concept would need to be fleshed out
before it could be implemented. Issues are: mime type issues for
non-executables, mime-type issues from the result of a "cgi", handling
of forms data without an http server, nph-, and maybe a wee bit more.]
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Raul
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