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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ISC update
Keywords: ISC
Message-ID: <1989Dec25.040854.9409@virtech.uucp>
Date: 25 Dec 89 04:08:54 GMT
References: <511090@nstar.UUCP> <10732@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <10732@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, cassidy@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Cassidy Lynar) writes:
> In article <511090@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
> >
> >Excellent support, indeed.   I did learn of the X7 update coming out that 
> >updates the mailer (sendmail). 
> 
> 	If you want a REAL mailer, get a copy of smail3, as ISC's mailers
> are hosed and half-baked... I switched to smail3 about 3 months ago, and all
> is well...

I have been using ISCs sendmail without any real problems once I got it
working.  There were a couple of configuration changes that we made to 
sendmail.cf and we decided to link /usr/lib/sendmail to /bin/rmail.  That 
was it.  Mail has been working fine here.

> >Next project - order X-Windows.  Bryan @ ISC mentioned that the next release 
> >of X (due in a couple of weeks) will support my ATI VGA Wonder board in the 
> 
> 	Humph! Why spend 800.00 on X11 when you can get the sources and build
> it yourself? ISC has a wonderful ability to take free sources, hack and screw
> it up, then turn around and charge you a great deal of money for it.

You get X sources, yes.  But who is gonna port the server? The x source tape
does not include a server for 386 machines/hardware, so it is not just a 
case of dropping in the software and running.

Don't recommend something to somebody else when you don't know the first
thing about what you are talking about.  Telling somebody to get the
X sources and do the port themselves will wast alot more than $800 dollars
worth of thier time.
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