From owner-freebsd-www Thu Dec 4 16:33:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19087 for www-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:33:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19077 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA05331; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:33:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:33:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jozef Bednarik cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it conform our demands? In-Reply-To: <9712042132.AA08094@gemma> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jozef Bednarik wrote: > We are planning to use one of our PCs (Pentium based) as a file server and > simultaneously for the Internet connection. For that purpose we are > searching for a good free UNIX-type operating system. You've turned to the right place. > There are several possibilities, but we are not familiar enough with > most of them to be able to choose the one that conforms our demands in > the best way. And because it is not so easy to get all of this > information on the web pages, we try to get it directly from the (well > informed) technicians of the appropriate companies and/or organizations. > Since FreeBSD is also in the scope of our interest, we kindly ask you to > provide us with this information. No problem. > We would like to know whether this operating system (and which version, > if not all) supports the following features: NIS (yellow pages) yes DNS yes automount yes PPP yes PPP dial on demand yes SMTP yes POP3 yes IMAP4 yes 3Com fast ethernet adapter 3C905-TX (or at least any other fast ethernet card available on the market) yes Looks like FreeBSD fits the bill. You should be able to use any version of FreeBSD; I'd recommend our most recent release, 2.2.5. You can download FreeBSD online from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ or you can order the 4-CD set from Walnut Creek CDROM, http://www.cdrom.com/. We have the FreeBSD Handbook, FAQ, searchable mail archive, and other resources available at http://www.freebsd.org/. If you need help getting any of these services set up and you can't find anything on the web pages, please mail questions@freebsd.org; we'd be happy to help. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major