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From: ksulliva@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: PCI/Pentium and *BSD
Date: 27 Jul 1994 17:09:44 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh Public School District
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Hello. I am looking at fast 486 or Pentium boxes running NetBSD or FreeBSD
for use as low-cost servers in schools (elementary through high).
Currently we use Decstations and Sparcs. The machines have to serve mail,
NFS, WWW, IMAP, etc, as well as a large number of telnet sessions. I have
machines with both *BSDs now and they are working out pretty well. However
I am afraid that a 486/66 may not be powerful enough when 15-20 people log
in and want to use gopher (or whatever).
Has anyone tried NetBSD or FreeBSD on a Pentium? Have there been any
problems? Likewise, does either one run with PCI cards? I would like
to get a PCI SCSI card (maybe the Bustek 946C).
Thanks for any information. I'll summarize any information I get.
-Kevin