Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 02:52:05 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Are you guys serious about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199601311052.CAA00860@rah.star-gate.com>
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Also their web server is very popular so if we can convert them to
use FreeBSD it will be fantastic!
Go For It !
Amancio
From: pierce@diamondmm.com (John R Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: switching from linux to freeBSD...
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:21:24 GMT
Organization: Diamond Multimedia Systems
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I'm managing a internet server thats currently running Linux. Its
just a DNS/SENDMAIL/INN server, it has 32MB ram, and is a Pentium 90.
The system has been SO flakey, I've been thinking of trying FreeBSD
instead.
hardware: triton based PCI Pentium 90, 32MB ram. Adaptec 2940 with 2
x 1GB and 1 x 3.8GB drives (/, /var, and /usr2/spool for news). 3C509
e-net card. s3 vga, but don't need/want xwindows, its a server.
This is a online server for 100's of users (our corporate internet
main server), so it can't be offline for very long... it handles
1000's of mail messages a day (like maybe 10,000!)... Its the primary
domain name server... its handling a almost full newsfeed (that can
go down w/o a big problem).
My questions...
can linux be 'upgraded' in place to freeBSD?
does freeBSD support the ext2 file system from linux w/o
reformatting?
What caveats and/or gotchas am I, a unix admin newbie, likely
to experience?
thanks in advance!
-jrp
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