[juneau-lug] Re: SuSE 7.3
- From: "JBarber" <barber@xxxxxxx>
- To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:19:07 -0900
I would love to try it out. I've been waiting for them to release them
download version. -Jim
P.S. You want some brewing hardware
-----Original Message-----
From: juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James Zuelow
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:26 PM
To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [juneau-lug] SuSE 7.3
I have a SuSE 7.3 CD/DVD set available if anyone wants to try it out.
The install is nice - I went with the default install with the exception of
replacing Sendmail with Postfix. I find myself so attached to Postfix that
I ditched RedHat after they dropped it from 7.2.
With RedHat I usually used a Gnome desktop, but with SuSE I decided to try
KDE for a while. KDE 2.1 is definately *much* slower than Gnome on my
system (PII 333MHz, 192MB RAM). Applications that load quickly in Gnome
take a long time to spool up in KDE, and KDE uses a bit more memory. Once
the applications start, they seem to work at the same speed - it's just that
annoying several second initial wait that gets to me.
Setting up a virus scanning mail gateway for my home network was as simple
as installing Postfix, Amavis-Postfix, and Antivir from the installation
CDs. Upgrading Antivir is a little strange - you have to trick the SuSE
Yast2 config into thinking the old Antivir is still installed, or else it
will automatically replace it. However the scanner works very well, which
is nice as it puts another layer of protection in front of our Win98 box.
If you have a network with Windows machines, setting up a virus scanning
gateway is probably not a bad idea. The scanner will put a load on the
gateway - I tested it by turning off fetchmail until I had about 150
messages stored up at ACS & GCI. Turning fetchmail back on retrieved the
mail right away - fetchmail handed the messages off to Postfix, which handed
them off to Amavis, which scanned them, handed them back to Postfix, which
delivered them to procmail. All of the messages were scanned and delivered
in a few minutes, but the load level reached 13.2 while Amavis scanned them
(more or less at the same time - I was watching the mail log, and messages
were being passed to Amavis faster than Amavis could scan them). To be
fair, the setiathome client was also running, so the load on my machine
never drops below 1.0. And several of the e-mail messages had .jpg
attachments from the grandparents down south. I would recommend a dual PPro
or PII+ with lots of RAM for anything more than home use.
Cheers,
James
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