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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!demon!btnet!uunet!inews.intel.com!xws331.sc.intel.com!mwilley From: mwilley@xws331.sc.intel.com (Mark F Willey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD Date: 19 May 1995 15:12:01 GMT Organization: Intel Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3picg1$mh2@inews.sc.intel.com> References: <3np0bj$mli@news.nde.state.ne.us> <3pgcq4$j5a@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: 143.183.36.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <3pgcq4$j5a@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>, lamaster@viking.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes: |> In article <3np0bj$mli@news.nde.state.ne.us>, |> cwelch@esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us (Craig L Welch) writes: |> |> |> Oh course, I'm posting this on the NetBSD newsgroup, so perhaps I'm |> |> already making the decision here, but I'm a Linux user lookig to support |> |> more people on the same hardware, and just generally interested in tryig |> |> something new (and perhaps more standard...) so, for me, this means |> |> NetBSD / FreeBSD. Perhaps I'm just (foolishly) opening a can of worms, |> |> but what to people suggest, NetBSD or FreeBSD. |> |> Good question. The question of the day, in fact. ;-) I'll just throw in my two cents by saying that my NetBSD machine supports about ten people when I'm at school, and I never notice that they're on. ;-) The key, I think, is to get a lot of memory. I also know of an ISP that's using NetBSD for internal work, and I see no problem with using it in production. Indeed, any BSD should work quite well. best.com, I believe is running BSDI's offering on a P-90, with 100+ users online. (key again - lots of RAM) According to the qualifications given, I'd say that NetBSD is the most qualified of several highly qualified OSes. If you have any Q's when coming to installing or operations, drop a line to willey@ecn.purdue.edu. Mark