From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 4 10:48:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02211 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02206 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:48:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25887; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 13:49:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 13:49:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Support cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hello In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970703204651.007ee3a0@207.55.155.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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