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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!lbw From: lbw@netcom.com (Len Wilson) Subject: Re: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD - any advice? Message-ID: <lbwE2Fo6s.DK4@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <matt.850577353@praetor> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 02:28:04 GMT Lines: 21 Sender: lbw@netcom13.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32618 Matt McLeod (matt@praetor.hna.com.au) wrote: : I'm seriously considering switching our UUCP hub to FreeBSD (from Linux - : Slackware 3.0 with some modifications). Naturally this is not a step to be : taken lightly - I intend to test everything on a different (but similar) : machine first. : However - any pointers would be greatly appreciated. The hardware is: : Cyrix 5x86 : 16Mb RAM : PC-COM 8-port serial board (Linux thinks it's an AST fourport) : EIDE hard drive I recently set up UUCP on my 6x86 FreeBSD machine and it went smoothly. FreeBSD comes with Taylor uucp pretty much ready to go. Just fill in the right names and numbers in the config files. It also works fine with sendmail. Len Wilson