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From: "Mikael Hugo" <mikael@hugo.pp.se>
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Subject: Re: News on FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 01:21:48 +0100
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Hi!

> Does FreeBSD make a good News server?

I am running several inhouse, serving thousands of clients every day. They
are in my experience better than all the expensive systems, and more stable
that the other free systems like the l-word.

> What hardware is recommended?

For a full feed I would suggest 2*4*4 SCSI drives spread over two fast
controllers.

That should be running on a P128 with 198MB of RAM, and linked to the net
with a minimum of T1.

I suggest starting with something a lot less, and only taking in some
groups :)

> Required reading?

http://www.isc.org/isc/inn.html

> Required software?

ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/inn

A bit terse, but you wanted to learn for yourself :)

PS: Ill be glad to give you some tips if you get stuck!

Regards 

	Mikael Hugo