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From: sheff@indigoa.cr.usgs.gov (Keith Sheffield)
Subject: NetBSD vs FreeBSD vs Linux?
Message-ID: <SHEFF.94Mar23151209@indigoa.cr.usgs.gov>
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Organization: EROS Data Center, USGS
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 21:12:09 GMT
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I am looking into using NetBSD, FreeBSD, or Linux to create several cheap
Intel Unix machines for a turnkey system. Here are the requirements I have:
1. Must be a stable platform. I would like to have the machines up 24 hrs a
day, 7 days a week if possible.
2. Can use a wide variety of hard disk controllers, network cards, and display
devices. The actual machines that the OS will be running on will vary
depending on availability and price of the components.
3. Relatively easy to install. I do not want to spend a lot of time trying to
figure out how to install the OS, since I might not be doing it on all the
machines.
4. Relatively easy to maintain once set up. These systems will only have a
couple users running a limited set of programs. The only admin type work the
users will have to do is backing up and possibly restoring filesystems.
5. Simple network support (ie. TCP/IP, sockets, ftp, etc). X amd NFS would be
really nice, but not necessary.
I don't know a lot about the specifics of any of these OS and I would
appreciate the help. I had planned on using xenix mainly because it was
available, but cost ruled it out (it was also incompatible with a lot of the
stuff I could download from the net, too).
I really need VM and multiprocesssing for this system. Using Dos wouldn't
really provide a good solution to my problem (I don't know about OS/2, I've
never been exposed to it).
thanks.
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Keith W. Sheffield Programmer, Sofware Development Hughes STX Corporation
EROS Data Center Mundt Federal Building Sioux Falls, SD 57198
att: 605-594-6838 email:sheff@edcserver1.cr.usgs.gov fax: 605-594-6589
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