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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.cais.com!Beast From: jsloan@livnet.com (Jim Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: SCO rebellion? Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 02:29:01 GMT Organization: LiveNet Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4cv89e$grs@news.cais.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960108203155.19152A-100000@world.evansville.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.138.9.27 X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960108203155.19152A-100000@world.evansville.net>, Brian Fahrlander <kilroy@evansville.net> wrote: > > > Now I'm starting an ISP. A very _small_ ISP. The webservice portion >is being run on a more expensive machine, and I'm handling the Email by >way of SCO and it's UUCP. > > Some pointed questions: > > 1. Doesn't BSD have UUCP? Taylor or HDB? (Please don't say both...) Yes, Taylor UUCP is supported, don't know about HDB, but I am sure someone has a port of it. > > 2. Does it come with all the networking? Everything you need for networking is there. > > 3. How about PPP connections? PPP, SLIP, CSLIP, etc is all supported, even proxy PPP/SLIP packages are available, some free, some commercial. > > I think it's time for a change...and BSD might just be it. We use BSDi and FreeBSD for our network and have no complaints at all. SCO causes a great many headaches with networking. Routing is very limited, etc. but is very robust in BSD. > > Bri +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Jim Sloan | jsloan@livnet.com | | LiveNet, Inc. | | | 1303 Mediterranean Ave. | These views do reflect the | | Virginia Beach VA 23454 | views of my company, | | Ph: 804-422-0069 | because it is my company. | | http://www.livnet.com | | +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in | | any form, in whole or in part. Copyright, Jim Sloan, 1995. License | | to distribute this post is available to Microsoft for US$5,000, or | | equivalent local currency. Posting without permission constitutes | | an agreement to these terms. Please send notices of violation to | | jsloan@livnet.com, and Postmaster@microsoft.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+