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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux box on the internet
Date: 15 Mar 94 15:18:31 GMT
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In <2m4h1e$8ec@oak7.doc.ic.ac.uk> mmh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Mirza Manar Hussain) writes:
>I should be in a position to put a computer on the net some time later this
>year and offer various services. I was wondering if there are many Linux
>boxes out there on the net with much significant access. I would be very
>interested in the viability of a Linux box in this situation. It would be
>set up to be ftp, telnet, mosiac, gopher -able etc, with accounts available
>for remote users and possibly some bbs type discussion areas.
Of course, since you crossposted this to the *BSD newsgroups, you can
pretty much expect that we're going to tell you that NetBSD or FreeBSD
will do networking on the Internet much better than a Linux box will.
Of course, then the Linux people will deny it and say that their
networking code has improved over the last several months. So, to
avoid all that, you ought to try them all and see which of them works
best for you. The *BSD FAQ can be obtained from ftp.iastate.edu in
/pub/netbsd/FAQ.
My recommendation is NetBSD. I had my NetBSD box on the Internet for
a year and a half in my office before I decided to bring it home. It
worked every bit as well as our Ultrix workstations (sometimes better)
as a shared part of our campus ethernet.
--Michael
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