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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!news2.uunet.ca!ionews.io.org!r-node.io.org!nobody From: tsangc@r-node.io.org (Calum Tsang) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Yuck. A New 386BSD User Date: 19 Dec 1993 23:54:49 -0500 Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-3783 Voice: 416-363-8676 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2f3b6p$pj1@r-node.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: r-node.io.org Hello, I have a few questions about 386BSD. We're running 386BSD in hopes of building a server to serve 445 accounts (students) for mail and news services, with a 14400 bps slip connection to our university's mainframes. The machine is a AMI BIOS C&T AMD386DX25, with 2 MB onboard and 6 MB on a Boca Research BOCAram AT/Plus, with two 8250 serial uarts and a 16450 uart. We have 85 MB of IDE disk storage, but will be moving to 340 very soon. a) what is the difference between 386 BSD and NetBSD? We have a distribution from 7/14/92, by Bill and Lynne Jolitz, the version is 0.1. b) what are the advantages of runing whatever other UNIX? c) what news subsystem should we be using? I know standard UNIX mail and uucp utilities are in place. d) how can we get hold of these news programs? e) can one recommend a good book on how to begin using UNIX (we're all learning here) and administrating it? Thanks, Calum Tsang Project Coordinator, University of Toronto Schools Internet Committee