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Date:      Fri, 4 Jul 1997 13:49:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Support <support@harvi.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hello
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970704134724.3384K-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970703204651.007ee3a0@207.55.155.2>

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On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Support wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> here is my situation.
> 
> I want to start up an ISP bussiness but i want to know if this software is
> good for that. Also i want to know if this is an operating system? is this
> unix? is it graphical? i only work on win 95 and win nt will i Be lost?
> 

We started our ISP with SCO unix, WHAT A NIGHTMARE!  Now most of our
machines run FreeBSD.  It is an operating system very much like unix.  It
can be graphical with X, but running X uses resources and open security
issues you dont need to deal with if you are providing people with dial in
shells or PPP or something.  You will be lost if you use NT for your
servers to do an ISP!  Trust me, one of my competitors went all NT and
made that their big selling point - they are soon to go chapter 11




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