Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:39:08 -0500 From: "Drew J. Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com> To: 'Shawn Ramsey' <shawn@cpl.net>, Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) Message-ID: <B1A7D9973EBED3119ADD009027DC8649180940@mailman.thenap.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] We had the same problem with the Linux version of Typhoon, long live solaris and its little annoying changes (note: ps -ef). -Drew -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Ramsey [mailto:shawn@cpl.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:26 PM To: Tom Samplonius Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2650.12"> <TITLE>RE: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation)</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P> <FONT SIZE=2>We had the same problem with the Linux version of Typhoon, long live solaris and its little annoying changes (note: ps -ef).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>-Drew</FONT> </P> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Shawn Ramsey [<A HREF="mailto:shawn@cpl.net">mailto:shawn@cpl.net</A>]</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:26 PM</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Tom Samplonius</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation)</FONT> </P> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:08AM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote:</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > Has Highwind Software (now bCandid) dropped support for FreeBSD? They</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > make great news software (see www.highwind.com). The used to have a beta</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > of Typhoon for FreeBSD available for downnload, but no longer. Various</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > developers at @highwind.com also used to participate on the lists.</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Yes, they have. Supposedly because FreeBSD's thread system isn't good</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > enough. As a result of this, we're moving away from Typhoon to an all-</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Diablo solution.</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Yes, but as far as I can tell, Diablo doesn't support article</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> compression. In fact, as far as I know, only the Typhoon family supports </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> spool compression. I want to use article compression to extend my spool</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> space a bit. Of course I'm hoping that a dual 1ghz machine with a GB of</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> RAM can actually compress and uncompress that much data each day.</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>I hope your not planning on using the Linux version. After weeks of</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>frustration, we finally switched to Solaris x86. The Linux version is a</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>joke. Maybe someone with more knowledge of Linux could get it running, but</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>bCandid support could not even tell us how to fix it.</FONT> </P> <BR> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message</FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML>help
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