From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 17 22:15:06 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA27348 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 22:15:06 -0700 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA27341 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 22:15:03 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA16973 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:15:01 -0600 Message-Id: <199510180515.XAA16973@rover.village.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new Linux for ISP... In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 18 Oct 1995 04:08:12 BST Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:15:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk There is a lot of talk on the inet-access list about people using Linux as an ISP platform. There are also endless mild flame wars between *bsd and Linux and BSDi vs {Free,Net}BSD. Usually people say Linux tends to get flakey when it gets 100's or routes (or was that 1000's) but FreeBSD is sold when that happens. However, it could be the same person over and over, I haven't paid enough attention to be sure. Also, there are a "fair" number of tia users that run under Linux, and the TIA platform is typically the ISP platform. Warner P.S. (Pardon the plug, but I *always* get questions on TIA when I mention it here: TIA is the internet adapter, it turns shell into IP accounts mostly. More details at http://marketplace.com/)