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From: doug@creation.portal.ca (Doug Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Which allows better corporate Internet access? Linux, FreeBSD, or ???
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 95 19:05:17 GMT
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I am *struggling* to set up some sort of corporate Internet access with very 
little budget and almost no resources. (Just a little whine for the holidays). 
I'd like some suggestions from people who have gone through this before.

We currently are running a 50-user Novell 3.12 network for DOS/Windows 
workstations.  We have a dedicated BBS machine online for file access and UUCP 
mail support. Now that I have hooked up the UUCP mail support, everyone is 
complaining about the *gross* user interface for email! (Gee, you people 
didn't even *HAVE* email last month, and now its a big issue!)

I have enough spare parts lying around the lab to cobble together a 486 DX/33 
with 16 MB RAM and a 1 GB SCSI drive with a 28.8 modem.

My guess is that I can set up a dedicated machine running either Linux or 
FreeBSD, have that machine talk TCP/IP to our Novell network, and run Pegasus 
under Windows to access mail and/or news on the UNIX box.  Then I just have to 
hook up the UNIX box to our current ISP and voila!

So which OS should I choose? Or should I run Windows NT or OS/2? I know these 
are *very* religious issues, but I appreciate any suggestions.

BTW, I am *not* a system administrator, we don't have one.  I am just a 
programmer who needs email access to do his job and who happens to have a $100 
signing authority! ASK FORGIVENESS LATER, NOT PERMISSION FIRST!

Doug Schmidt           Creation Technologies Inc.       Phone: 604-430-4336
BBS: 604-430-4376     Email: doug@creation.portal.ca      Fax: 604-430-4337