From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 12 19:14:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94D8514E61 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 26777 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 1999 02:12:13 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 26759 invoked by uid 0); 13 Apr 1999 02:12:13 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 13 Apr 1999 02:12:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3712A7C5.17531AC9@uswest.net> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:11:19 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurence Berland Cc: Toby Swanson N-1417 , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD server success stories References: <199904121546.LAA26474@gie.noh.tva.gov> <371299A4.5D7F92E7@uswest.net> <37129D72.A175D4DC@confusion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Laurence Berland wrote: > Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> Toby Swanson N-1417 wrote: >>> I have the opportunity to recommend replacing a Sun SPARCserver-1000 >>> with an Intel based FreeBSD machine. It will be a general file and >>> print server for about 200-250 users/hosts. Most client machines will >>> be Windows 95 and NT Workstations, with a few Sun Sparcs. The server >>> will have to provide NIS and DNS in addition to hosting 25 to 35 netwk >>> printers. It must also handle 4 SCSI controllers; 1 plain SCSI 2, >>> 1 SCSI 2 that will handle 4 to 6 LUNs on each of 7 targets (irqs). >>> The last 2 controllers must handle 10 to 14 4.2 Gb disks each. We use >>> Samba to share file systems with PCs. >> >> Given these requirements, why did you choose an Intel platform? I >> would have chosen an Alpha running Net or OpenBSD. > > Why not choose an alpha running FreeBSD ? :) That's certainly an option. Even though the FBSD-Alpha project has progressed well beyond "beta" stage, it's still quite young and there are bound to be significant problems in a server environment. I don't want to discount FBSD-Alpha, I've used it and I think it's great (KUTGW guys). But since this is application would appear to be a major server running critical services, I would opt for one of the more established BSDs. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message