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#! rnews 1619 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!news3.noc.netcom.net!news.diamondmm.com!news From: pierce@diamondmm.com (John R Pierce) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: switching from linux to freeBSD... Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:21:24 GMT Organization: Diamond Multimedia Systems Lines: 28 Message-ID: <310e97ec.6731745@199.182.102.2> NNTP-Posting-Host: diamond244.diamondmm.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 I'm managing a internet server thats currently running Linux. Its just a DNS/SENDMAIL/INN server, it has 32MB ram, and is a Pentium 90. The system has been SO flakey, I've been thinking of trying FreeBSD instead. hardware: triton based PCI Pentium 90, 32MB ram. Adaptec 2940 with 2 x 1GB and 1 x 3.8GB drives (/, /var, and /usr2/spool for news). 3C509 e-net card. s3 vga, but don't need/want xwindows, its a server. This is a online server for 100's of users (our corporate internet main server), so it can't be offline for very long... it handles 1000's of mail messages a day (like maybe 10,000!)... Its the primary domain name server... its handling a almost full newsfeed (that can go down w/o a big problem). My questions... can linux be 'upgraded' in place to freeBSD? does freeBSD support the ext2 file system from linux w/o reformatting? What caveats and/or gotchas am I, a unix admin newbie, likely to experience? thanks in advance! -jrp