From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cubesearch.com (ns1.masteringczech.com [216.254.21.212]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3LDBEko022207 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:11:14 GMT Received: by cubesearch.com (Postfix, from userid 522) id 866DE3530C; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:11:19 -0700 From: Peter Johanson To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] What programs are good to install on pentium 133mhz? Message-ID: <20050421131119.GR6707@butchest.cubesearch.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org References: <42673785.E3B7BB50@gmx.li> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42673785.E3B7BB50@gmx.li> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: e91104b9-7f8b-4305-ad84-ad6ac79a157c X-Archives-Hash: 27f78032b6dec0594a836019e400c84a On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:17:57AM +0200, Werner M. Mayer wrote: > Hello, I am new to gentoo and have many questions. > > I'll start with these: > > I would like to know what mail and ftp-passive programs I should > install on my system. They should be secure with no need to get > updates due to security breaks every half year. I'm a sucker for good console apps, especially on low power machines like that. For that, i'd suggest these: mail - mutt + msmtp (for a MTA). mutt does IMAPS, and msmtp can do SMTP AUTH with SSL, etc, etc. ftp - ncftp (one of the nicer console FTP programs out there). my $0.02 -pete > > > Werner Mayer > -- > gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Peter Johanson -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list