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From: "John A. Booth" <john@ulantris.infinop.com>
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Subject: Dial-up under FreeBSD
To: exuviae@Intersurf.com (Chris)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:11:16 -0500 (CDT)
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> >Check out www.apache.org for a good web server.  Get the latest release
> >version.  How familiar are you with unix?  Have you compiled programs
> >yourself before?

> I have some expierance in Unix, and already have a digiboard, I e-mailed
> apache with the information, but my company doesn't want to change platforms
> at the moment, they prefer to use Win NT or Win95. I understand that options

Yes, without commercial software (and I can't think of any off hand
to do dialup) it's probably not possible to host a dialup service with
95/NT.  FreeBSD is a free unix (like Linux) for the Intel X86 processor
line.  There are three major versions.  The release (currently 2.1),
current (2.2 in progress), and stable (2.1 plus bug fixes/tested
enhancements).  

My biased view of what's better about FreeBSD is

	1.  Generally more stable then Linux.  
	2.  The team working on FreeBSD seem to be very organized,
	    having core members that work closely together.  The linux
            people seem not to communicate as much.  (I've been away from
            Linux for a long time so this may have changed.
        3.  It seems (to me) if you have a re-peatable problem it can
            usually be solved or fixed fairly quickly.
        4.  Linux is commercialized, but has no commercial support of the
            core kernel ;(.

> need to get this together, what is FreeBSD? i know it is an OS, and i know
> Intersurf runs it, but will it support a dual OS setup? anyway thanks for
> the help.
If you mean being able to have FreeBSD and NT/95 on the same machine this
is definitely possible.  If you do this you probably want both partitions
within the first  1024 cylinders of the drive (some bioses need this to
work properly others don't).  Then you can make other partitons after that
for /usr or a data drive for NT/95.

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