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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@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)
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Subject: switching from linux to freeBSD...
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:21:24 GMT
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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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