From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 11:36:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA15409 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:36:52 -0700 Received: from knobel.gun.de (knobel-ip.gun.de [192.109.159.141]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA15401 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:36:44 -0700 Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA18968; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:35:33 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:35:32 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Peter da Silva cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD wins big as internal news server! In-Reply-To: <199510031623.LAA17290@bonkers.taronga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Peter da Silva wrote: > I've been trying to get a FreeBSD box to provide mail, www, and news service > for our internal use for some time. I finally found an old HP Vectra RS/20 > (20 MHz 80386), stuck in some spare RAM from a dead Sun-3, and installed > FreeBSD on it. Works like a champ. Serves news faster than the System V r3.2 > multibus-2-based dual-486/33 box it's replacing. > > Great work, guys! Well, I'm unsure which machine to buy as proxy server in the company. I wanted to get a Sun SS 10/30 ... But a FreeBSD machine with a P100 and 64 MB RAM might be better ...:) -- $$ apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd @home : andreas@knobel.gun.de $$ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu @work : andreas@sunny.wup.de $$ /pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz knobel: >>> powered by FreeBSD <<<