nix distro & exchange

[instronics]

Please do forgive me for going a little step off topic here. Just a little point of interest in case some people didn't know:

SuSE Linux

The origins

The company started its activities as a service company, which among other things regularly released software packages that included SLS and Slackware, printed UNIX/Linux manuals, and offered technical assistance. In mid-1992, Softlanding Linux System (SLS, now defunct) was founded by Peter MacDonald, and was the first comprehensive distribution to contain elements such as X and TCP/IP.[citation needed] The Slackware distribution (maintained by Patrick Volkerding) was initially based largely on SLS, and the SUSE Linux distribution was originally a German translation of Slackware Linux.

Taken from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux_distributions

I didn't know about this for a very long time. I started out with only suse linux long time ago,and from all the distros i had tried since then, the only one that keeps me interested is pure slackware.

Now lets go back on topic. In a company i used to work for in athens, i do recall them running exchange on slackware. By the looks of it, slackware and suse have the same folder tree system (/etc/rc.d/) etc.... which many other linux distros don't seem to share. If i recall, even the BSD family has the same folder structures like suse and slackware, so i would not be surprised if someone could get exchange working on bsd? Maybe its a long shot at what i am saying, but would be worth a try to see

And as Gore has mentioned... Yast&Yast2 are true beautys. I do miss yast on slack sometimes.... but the tools available for maintaining slackware aswell as installing packages are just fine.