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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: 386BSD / NetBSD / FreeBSD Message-ID: <1993Sep29.182618.11087@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <1993Sep28.050914.3374@cs.sfu.ca> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 18:26:18 GMT Lines: 35 Rob Ballantyne (ballanty@cs.sfu.ca) wrote: : : At the risk of starting a religious war, which of 386BSD, NetBSD, or : FreeBSD is more stable/usable. : : Let me explain my situation, that may help you understand why I ask. : I am a site administrator at a mostly DOS shop. Recently our staff has : discovered Unix & the Internet and wants in. What I am charged with doing : is to provide them with this at a reasonable cost. What I was thinking was : take the most stable/mature version of the various free BSD's out there and : install it on a (may be more than one) blown out PC (486DX2 66MHz,32 MB : memory, ESIA or VESA SCSI ...) and let them use mail/telnet/ftp/gopher/... : : Well, what do you think (he asked anxiously) (and perhaps with a small : portion of trepidation about the possible consequences of such a question). : : Thanks for any advice you can provide. : : Cheers, : : Rob [sigs deleted] 386BSD with patchkit 2.4 as well as FREEBSD and NETBSD should all be able to do what you want. IMHO, I would say go with FREEBSD. I would also suggest that you only use 16Mb of mem to start with as greater than that is still problematical with non EISA systems. If your Dos PC's are on an ethernet network, you can use NCSA Telnet or CUTCP to have them telnet or ftp into the unix box right from their own pc and from the unix box out into the internet. I currently have CUTCP running under WinDoze connecting up to 386BSD w/pk2.4 and it works quite nicely. It is somewhat slow (CUTCP), 60-70K/sec ftp from unix to dos and only 24-30K/sec ftp from dos pc to unix box. The great part is that except for the hardware and your own sweat (considerable ;) in setting it up the total cost is $0.00