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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: ljs@paw.montana.com (Luke J. Schelvan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Best free BSD/Unix?.... Date: 18 May 1994 18:28:13 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 16 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9405181731.aa02668@paw.montana.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu I'm looking for a free/dirtcheap version of BSD (or something else besides Linux) to run a small multiuser chat/bulletin board system on a TCP/IP network. Thus, I need the following capabilities: 1) works with an IDE hard drive 2) has the necessary TCP/IP stuff including telnet, ftp, etc. 3) comes with a compiler, or a compiler is available. Preferrably gcc but any standard cc compiler would be fine. (I will need to use inet libraries so it will work on the tcp/ip network.) 4) will work with an ethernet card; I don't really care which. 5) should handle up to 3 or 4 "real" users and maybe 100 or so open sockets for the bulletin board system. Can anyone with suggestions reply by email?... I will post a followup.. Thanks in advance.