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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: sysop
In-Reply-To: coupe@altern.com's message of Sun, 10 Oct 1993 01: 25:32 GMT
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In article <1993Oct10.012532.9121@altern.com> coupe@altern.com (coupe) writes:
   I was reading in comp.os.386bsd.announce that freedbsd is better than 386BSD
   and more reliable....I would like to know more on this subject....
   Is it reliable enough to take in charge an internet-conected server?????

You bet - we beat the heck out of our network connected development
machines, and generally only reboot to install new kernels and the
like.  That's not to say that we never see panics, but only very
rarely.  My own machine would stay up for months if I would let it!

   where may I get it? for which hardware??? which compatibility with current
   PC386 or better 486? what about Pentium?

Standard IDE and SCSI based PC's, don't know about Pentium (should work),

   How to dowload it? from where? and on QIC-tape or CD-rom????

You can download it from freebsd.cdrom.com.  jtc@freefall.cdrom.com
sells floppy and tape distributions, the CDROM distribution will
be available shortly from Walnut Creek CDROM.

   Is somebody
   able to send me back the initial release note I saw here on Altern Usenet board?

I'll mail it to you.

   Is anybody using it ...really?? 24 hours a day?

You bet.  A lot of people, 24 hours a day!  And under heavy load.

				Jordan
--
(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.