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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!news.pr.erau.edu!slab.pr.erau.edu!swaits From: swaits@slab.pr.erau.edu (Stephen Waits) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Which 386-BSD is reliable? Date: 11 Aug 1994 00:39:47 GMT Organization: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ, USA Lines: 43 Message-ID: <32bs0j$hgg@news.pr.erau.edu> References: <pmiles.776112888@tdc> NNTP-Posting-Host: slab.pr.erau.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Peter Miles (pmiles@tdc.dircon.co.uk) wrote: : I'm looking for a system to act as a news/mail server, and several : people have suggested I look at one of the BSD versions of UNIX, : especially BSDI. : We hope to run INN, to enable our users to access news over the LAN. : All comments and opinions are most welcome! Hi, I'm a systems admin at a University in Northern Arizona. We have setup several *BSD machines. I'm presently in LOVE with FreeBSD. The core team is the greatest group of people around! Quick, nice and friendly, and incredibly knowledgable. Now my pants are gettin' itchy for 2.0! I've got two FreeBSD systems on my desk as follows: System#1 486dx33, 16 megs, 1.3 Gig SCSI (adaptec 1542 cntrlr), vanilla ET4000 16 bit isa video, serial mouse and a modem.. This one machine is my personal X terminal (to read my mail, news, irc, etc, play:), our campus gopher server, www server, qi [phone books] server, ftp server, DNS server, and alphanumeric pager server (dials out on modem). And, it still hauls ass! System#2 486dx/2-66, 32 megs, 1.5 Gig SCSI (Ultrastor UH34F VLB cntrlr), some kinda video (only use a mono vga monitor)... This machine is our dedicated news-server. It is spooling news 24 hours a day, running Inn1.4+NNTPLink. Plus (our campus is small too) our users read ~1500-2000 articles per day from the thing. We receive on average greater than 25000 articles from our main feeds every day. No problems, other than, every rare once in awhile, a regular fsck and reboot is needed [this is to be expected with so much damn I/O].. Needless to say, I love FreeBSD. Just ordered a machine at home (17" monitor dx/2-66, scsi, 16megs, 2.1Gigs, the works) so I can play some more. My *bsd experience is about one year. Having played with Linux, NetBSD (older versions), 386bsd (way long ago!), and finally FreeBSD, I found the (IMHO, which means keep your lame flames to yourself!) champion! Stephen Waits