From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 20:25:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA01421 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA01415 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA05559; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:25:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Al Johnson cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-970807-SNAP as news server In-Reply-To: <341FE7FA.5EBF538C@AJC.State.Net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Al Johnson wrote: > I've found the SNAP release to be quite stable for me > doing compiles/ a lot of X Stuff etc, but I'm wondering if > 3.0-SNAP is stable enought to utilize at an ISP for news. > The news server would be a Pent 133, 128MB Mem and 3 drives > ccd'd for the actual news articles. > > Any suggestions re: whether or not I should venture down > this road. Should I wait for 2.2.5 (although that like > it might be too far down the road for my needs). This is a bit more to you. If you feel comfortable with a 3.0 snapshot, then by all means use it. If you're going to set up news, though, I'd suggest checking out the INN FAQ before getting too involved -- you'll want to make some changes to the way the filesystem is generated and how to organize your system for best efficiency. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo