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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mistral.co.uk!usenet From: whereits@mistral.co.uk (Me) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,list.freebsd-questions Subject: NetCafe needs BSD advice - WHICH n' WHY 8-] Date: 4 Jan 1996 04:18:58 GMT Organization: None. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4cfkfi$4op@news.mistral.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: line1.mistral.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11317 comp.unix.bsd.misc:406 We're opening an internet Cafe/Bar & Restaurant in the South of England in March, and my research has led me to believe that I can serve my internal LAN (30 PCs and/or Macs) on a Pentium with Linux and FreeBSD (which will give the simplest step-by-step installation for a Web/mail server). Is FreeBSD this easy ? Can it handle (or is there support for) a news server ? Do I need additional software for LAN support ? WHAT IS the difference between FreeBSD and NetBSD ? Why are Linux and FreeBSD compared against each other, don't you need Linux to operate FreeBSD ? What platforms are FreeBSD and NetBSD available on, and are there any other BSD (freeware or commercial) that are better on any platform ? Oh, and why are there so many freebsd.hacker newsgroups ? 8-] Advice or answers to ANY (or all, if your clever !) of these questions would be gratefully recieved !!! Are all these newby questions in a FAQ somewhere ? I only heard about BSD tonight. 8-] Pete.