Speaking of alternate platforms, I’m pondering my approach to Linux. I’m too busy/lazy to deal with anything but a prepackaged distribution. When Red Hat was “free” (as in money) and the most popular distribution, the answer seemed easy. Fedora Core 1 has seemed a natural progression from Red Hat 9. However:

• Fedora Core 1 is about to go to “legacy” status, “end of life” as far as Red Hat is concerned.
• Fedora Core 2 is not quite the graceful upgrade I had expected. In particular, the mail server implementation, newly based on the CMU Cyrus IMAP Server, seems hasty and rough to me.
• I had tried to upgrade my main mail server from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2, but decided I wasn’t prepared to go to Cyrus IMAP now. I reverted the server to Fedora Core 1 and am contemplating my options. At the moment, I am thinking I will install Fedora Core 2 on that machine again, but remove Cyrus IMAP and install “legacy” mail services from the Fedora Core 1 packages. So far, trying this on a guinea pig machine, this seems viable.