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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Which 386-BSD is reliable?
Date: 08 Aug 1994 07:43:27 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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References: <pmiles.776112888@tdc>
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In-reply-to: pmiles@tdc.dircon.co.uk's message of 5 Aug 1994 20:05:30 +0100


In article <pmiles.776112888@tdc> pmiles@tdc.dircon.co.uk (Peter
Miles) writes:

   This is for running on a Pentium-based PC system with Adaptec SCSI
   controller and SCSI drives. Network card will probably be a 3COM
   EISA one.

   We hope to run INN, to enable our users to access news over the
   LAN.

   Can anyone send me their experiences of BSDI (and FreeBSD or
   NetBSD).

I presume the ethernet card you're referring to is a 3c579?

I can't speak for the other two, but such a configuration should work
well with NetBSD.

--
- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
  Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sun4c, mac68k, pc532, da30.
  In progress: sun3, pmax, vax, sun4m, alpha, sun4.