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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!mailer.acns.fsu.edu!martech1.physics.fsu.edu!ryan From: ryan@magnet.fsu.edu (Joe Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: UNIX/PC Sys Admin opinions Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 20:20:30 GMT Organization: FSU - MARTECH (Physics Dept.) Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <ryan.13.2CFF9F8E@magnet.fsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: martech1.physics.fsu.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Attention UNIX/PC System Administrators! I would like to have some general/specific opinions from people who read this newsgroup and would have any advice or comment (from experience) on any of the following: LINUX 386BSD FreeBSD <---- these are not listed NetBSD in any prferential order. Minix or any other I am soon to start a project wherein I need to install one of the above onto a 486DX2 VLB with a 430Mb IDE HD, 16Mb RAM, an SMC ethernet card, and a VGA monitor. (I'll change any specific item(s) if necessary, but this looks like the most likely setup.) I need to know which is the best route to go and *your* opinion as to why. I am also curious as to ease of installation, compatibility with third party software packages, etc. - anything one can think of that's important. I am not looking for FAQs; I have downloaded most already. The primary, initial, function will be to set up eMail accounts, running sendmail and some POP mail daemon. (POP is used extensively here.) Please send your responses to me: ryan@magnet.fsu.edu. If you post it to the board for some reason, please cc a copy directly to me so that I don't miss it. Thanks in advance. Joe Ryan ____________________________________________________________ Joe Ryan ryan@magnet.fsu.edu MARTECH/Physics Florida State University ------------------------------------------------------------