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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Linux box on the internet Date: 16 Mar 1994 18:33:29 GMT Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen Lines: 53 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <2m7jdp$aea@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <hastyCMGpA7.Gu5@netcom.com> <2lo4m0$sdt@bosnia.pop.psu.edu> <SJA.94Mar12174713@gamma.hut.fi> <2m0h7a$3ck@u.cc.utah.edu> <SJA.94Mar15122613@gamma.hut.fi> <2m4h1e$8ec@oak7.doc.ic.ac.uk> <2m4nth$eh3@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <2m5l8l$1md3@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Donald Jeff Dionne (jeff@ee.ryerson.ca) wrote: : Christoph Kukulies (kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote: : : Mirza Manar Hussain (mmh@doc.ic.ac.uk) wrote: : : : Hi all, : : : I should be in a position to put a computer on the net some time later this : : : year and offer various services. I was wondering if there are many Linux : : : boxes out there on the net with much significant access. I would be very : : : interested in the viability of a Linux box in this situation. It would be : : OK, fine. You will have a Linux box. WHY ARE YOU ASKING THIS IN A : : COMP.OS.386BSD.APPS NEWSGROUP.? : Well, I can't answer for him, but seems to me, he wants to know the opinion : of the other free UN*X camp. Simple, makes sense.... : : : set up to be ftp, telnet, mosiac, gopher -able etc, with accounts available : : : for remote users and possibly some bbs type discussion areas. : : : Many thanX. : : You're welcome. Penalty: take a 5 min. break and send 10 mails to : : bsd-counter@uninett.no Subj: Thy shouldst be running FreeBSD : : ...because of it's untopped networking stability and performance. : I'm not closed minded, Thy shouldst....... my butt. Both are good. For : different applications : : :-) : : : Manar : What is BSD's net code like compared to Linux? I'd really like to know. : Linux networking does work fine for me, but I have some machines where : perhaps BSD would do better.... From what I know Linux is using BSD derived networking code and they built it into their OS somehow. *BSD systems will be using BSD 4.4 (lite) networking code soon which will introduce another gain in resource usage - me thinks. The present network card drivers for *BSD are excellent wrt to performance. They reach nearly the theoretical limit of the underlying physical layer (Ethernet). (I'm speaking for FreeBSD-current here). : Internet Jeff@EE.Ryerson.Ca : AMPRnet VE3DJF@bbs.VE3RPI.ampr.org --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de