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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ola Samuelson <ola@datalink.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual CPUs and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807211437130.8360-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35B4B8E2.46F032E5@datalink.se>

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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Ola Samuelson wrote:

> Hi,
> We are considering throwing our NT server out and use FreeBSD as a
> server.

That would be an excellent choice.

> Questions:
> 1. Does FreeBSD make use of our two(2) Pentium 400MHZ motherboard?

Yes, in CURRENT only.

> 2. Does it work at all with two CPUs?

Yes, in CURRENT only.

> 3. Can we rely on SAMBA to enable filesharing with other systems
> (W95/WNT)? Or how is this done?

Yes, use Samba.

> Many companies like ours, relatively small ones, are fed up with
> Microsoft.
> You could make deciding to go for BSD VERY easy by providing an example
> setup for replacing a W95 or WNT box as a server with FreeBSD.

A `Destroy NT' tutorial?  If I can get my hands on a copy of NT Server and
a spare machine I can make that happen.

``3 Easy Steps to Ridding Yourself of Microsoft Windows NT'' ... catchy?

I'll take a look at this.  Thanks for the suggestion!  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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