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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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