From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 19 10:25:57 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 10:25:54 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (unknown [63.169.72.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9323537B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:25:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA94007; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:25:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:25:45 -0800 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Tom Samplonius Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) Message-ID: <20001219102545.C88451@cpl.net> References: <76254.977209050@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tom@sdf.com on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:08AM -0800 Sender: shawn@luke.cpl.net Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:08AM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > > Has Highwind Software (now bCandid) dropped support for FreeBSD? They > > > make great news software (see www.highwind.com). The used to have a beta > > > of Typhoon for FreeBSD available for downnload, but no longer. Various > > > developers at @highwind.com also used to participate on the lists. > > > > Yes, they have. Supposedly because FreeBSD's thread system isn't good > > enough. As a result of this, we're moving away from Typhoon to an all- > > Diablo solution. > > > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > Yes, but as far as I can tell, Diablo doesn't support article > compression. In fact, as far as I know, only the Typhoon family supports > spool compression. I want to use article compression to extend my spool > space a bit. Of course I'm hoping that a dual 1ghz machine with a GB of > RAM can actually compress and uncompress that much data each day. I hope your not planning on using the Linux version. After weeks of frustration, we finally switched to Solaris x86. The Linux version is a joke. Maybe someone with more knowledge of Linux could get it running, but bCandid support could not even tell us how to fix it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message