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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!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,list.freebsd-questions Subject: Re: NetCafe needs BSD advice - WHICH n' WHY 8-] Date: 4 Jan 1996 19:16:22 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4ch926$2kg@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4cfkfi$4op@news.mistral.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11992 comp.unix.bsd.misc:434 In article <4cfkfi$4op@news.mistral.co.uk>, Me <whereits@mistral.co.uk> wrote: >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 Great - I'll stop by for a coffee next time I'm passing through on my way to the Dover ferry.. :) >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 ? No UN*X is entirely *easy*, but it will certainly do everything you describe above with a little configuration work. >Can it handle (or is there support for) a news server ? Yep! news.cdrom.com is such a beast, using a single 7GB hard drive. >Do I need additional software for LAN support ? No. >WHAT IS the difference between FreeBSD and NetBSD ? NetBSD supports more platforms. FreeBSD tries to supply a more complete solution by focusing on just one (the PC). >Why are Linux and FreeBSD compared against each other, don't you need >Linux to operate FreeBSD ? No, they're entirely different animals and both completely stand-alone. >What platforms are FreeBSD and NetBSD available on, and are there any other >BSD (freeware or commercial) that are better on any platform ? FreeBSD is available on Intel. NetBSD is available on Intel, Suns, ALPHAs, etc. See http://www.freebsd.org and http://www.netbsd.org for more information. >Oh, and why are there so many freebsd.hacker newsgroups ? 8-] We like to talk. :-) >Are all these newby questions in a FAQ somewhere ? You should definitely peruse http://www.freebsd.org Jordan