From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 10:31: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5C714E79 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:31:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcB-202.sub-b.lee.net [208.205.125.202]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA09096; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:52:25 -0600 Message-ID: <387F7F16.2D348846@journalstar.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:55:02 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ".Chris Grady" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question References: <000001bf5e66$e999a920$16167ad1@gmg001.gmgn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ".Chris Grady" wrote: > > I know this is a really stupid question but what else would you expect from > and NT guy. (please don't laugh when you read this.) > > I am beginning the long process of ridding myself of Microsoft products and > at the core of my systems I plan to implement 100% FreeBSD. I have been > unable to find any books related to FreeBSD. I know it is suppose to be a > port of the original UCB UNIX but does that mean that I can get a book on > UNIX administration and apply that knowledge to a FreeBSD OS running on a > quad zeon or PIII server with Level 5 Raid? > > Also, I have been doing quite a bit of research and have decided on the > following setup for a large database driven web service that we will be > undertaking and releasing under the General Public License. I would like any > input you have on the following core system I plan to implement. > > OS: FreeBSD > Web Server: Apache Jserv & mod_perl & possibly (EMBPerl) > Database: Oracle 8.X > You might want to look into PHP, an embedded server-side scripting language (http://www.php.net/) and MySQL, a free relational database in ports (http://www.mysql.com/). Whatever you choose, you will be happy. My experience shows that FreeBSD is much happier under load than NT. > DNS: FreeBSD running BIND > > Also, there is no User Group in Washington D.C. and we would like to start > one. I am currently an active member with several user groups involved with > the Windows NT technology including NTServer, Visual Interdev User Group > (WAVI), and MSSQL User group. I Know of several dozen individuals that are > currently looking for alternatives to Micro$oft system. Please let me know > what I need to do to establish the Washington D.C. FreeBSD user group. > > Thanks for you help in advance. > > Kind Regards, > Chris Grady > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message