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Story: Build your own Linux server

Posted by: Robert Walker (Thursday 29 April 2004, 9:49 PM)

Don't what planet this author is on but there are other distro's out there that are just as good as SUSE and Red Hat. The latter is the Fedora project anyway!!

I use Mandrake 9.2 Linux on a self-built PC as a internet gateway without X and it works fine. They also haven't sold out like Red Hat.

Whats all this about IPCHAINS? They are obsolete in current kernels replaced by the more powerful IPTABLES suite. Useful not just for firewalling but when used in conjunction with internal kernel QDISCs for quality of service traffic shapping (which I do on my box).

In my experience Samba was a nightmare to get to work and I gave up on that in the end. So saying its easy to use is questionable...

Squid (the web proxy) is an totally independent project from the Linux released under the GPL.

Good article but should be split up with each article going into depth on one topic/article to cover common problems and spread the good word!!