Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:12:08 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012190908030.13072-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <76254.977209050@verdi.nethelp.no>
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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. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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