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To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Tim O'Reilly on FreeBSD
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MYself I know that NetBSD and OpenBSD are really working
a lot on security, so they are as much as FreeBSD 2 good operative
systems for someone who wants to become a ISP.
The NetBSD 1.3.1 is also robust quite a lot, while I do not know a lot
about OpenBSD.

Rick


On 18 May 1998, Chris Shenton wrote:

> Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes:
> 
> > It's a pity there's no date on this message.  I heard from Andy Oram
> > at O'Reilly and Associates about a month ago, and we're going to do a
> > book.  We're still thrashing out the details.  It'll definitely be
> > smaller than "The Complete FreeBSD".
> 
> It would be interesting to see some focus on how FreeBSD is better
> than alternatives -- including Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and
> Solaris-x86. For many folks who want to try unix, or even adepts that
> are just looking for the right match, this information is largely
> missing. I would think pointing to the number of ISPs that use FreeBSD
> would be a good point of info: speed, stability, networking, robustness...
> 
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