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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1058 comp.os.linux.misc:11151 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!nessie!cs6400.mcc.ac.uk!cs6400.mcc.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: zzassgl@cs6400.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux box on the internet Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 16 Mar 1994 08:40:24 -0000 Organization: Manchester Computing Centre Cray CS6400 Service Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <2m6glo$2lr@cs6400.mcc.ac.uk> References: <hastyCMGpA7.Gu5@netcom.com> <2lo4m0$sdt@bosnia.pop.psu.edu> <SJA.94Mar12174713@gamma.hut.fi> <2m0h7a$3ck@u.cc.utah.edu> <SJA.94Mar15122613@gamma.hut.fi> <2m4h1e$8ec@oak7.doc.ic.ac.uk> <michaelv.763744711@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs6400.mcc.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote: : 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. But I can say the same about my Linux PC. It's been running MCC Linux and been connected to the campus ethernet (and hence the Internet) for over a year now without any problems. It's also more responsive than a Sun Classic with three times as much memory! -- Geoff. Lane. | Internet: zzassgl@cs6400.mcc.ac.uk | Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc CS6400 Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL Adding manpower to a late software project only makes it later.