From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 11:02:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05508 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isvara.net (root@[130.88.148.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05483; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:02:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@challenge.isvara.net) Received: from challenge.isvara.net ([130.88.66.5]) by isvara.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA06204; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:01:46 GMT Message-ID: <34FC539D.44DC7452@challenge.isvara.net> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 19:01:49 +0000 From: freebsd@isvara.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Current , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Soward wrote: > We have a large investment in FreeBSD here at UK. Currently our primary campus > web server uses it (~1000 users), and our news server...and in a few weeks our 3 > 2,000 user pop mail system will be FreeBSD based. Similar situation here. Our universities use FreeBSD and Novell OSs for the servers. The admin people have identified that FreeBSD is far more stable and faster than Linux generally. There are close to 100K students in Manchester AFAIK, putting a large loading on the services offered. There are three main mail gateways (smarthosts), and all operate well. The local university networks comprise of four 100Mb FDDI rings (one per university) feeding into the 155Mb ATM Manchester backbone which connects to the Manchester Network Access Point (MaNAP) and two other core switching nodes for the academic community, via 155Mb ATM links. There are three DNS servers (all running FreeBSD), and are under very heavy load; All continously work perfectly. FreeBSD is well known for it's stability and performance operating as a server, and Manchester Computing uses it extensively. 8-) Well done FreeBSD team. Dan _____________________________________ Daniel J Blueman BSc Computation, UMIST, Manchester Email: blue@challenge.isvara.net Web: http://www.challenge.isvara.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message