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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12728 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3421 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Message-ID: <1994Aug28.104230.312@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Nntp-Posting-Host: isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <31trcr$9n@euterpe.owl.de> <327nj0$sfq@sundog.tiac.net> <hastyCuwH6z.BJ8@netcom.com> <9408252225.39@rmkhome.com> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 10:42:29 +0000 Lines: 32 In article <9408252225.39@rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote: >Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote: >: In article <327nj0$sfq@sundog.tiac.net> bill@bhhome.ci.net (Bill Heiser) writes: >: >does soon! I don't want to have to dump LINUX, with it's nice complete >: >"fully operational system out of the box" and go with the piecemeal *bsd >: >products (not that there's anything wrong with *bsd, it's just less >: >convenient to install since it requires days or weeks of hunting for >: >utilities, compiling them, installing them, etc, whereas with LINUX >: >distributions, all the useful stuff is already there). > >: If that is your only criteria, then you can dump linux because >: you can hunt for many of the popular packages available for >: FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD > >It's too bad that no one mirrors the /ports directory. The freebsd.cdrom.com >site is overloaded about 18 hours of the day. Probably because it is of >interest to *BSD and Linux users. > freebsd.cdrom.com is just an alias to wcarchive.cdrom.com which is a very, very busy ftp site. Not, I'd have to admit, because of FreeBSD but because of what else is at that site. I believe by far the most traffic is due to OS/2 users getting the hobbes stuff. I think the current ftp limit is 150 users and it's still hard to connect. wcarchive.cdrom.com actually runs FreeBSD 1.1.5 (that's a rather shameless plug :-) -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK