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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!ecr.mu.oz.au!mlk From: mlk@ecr.mu.oz.au (Michael_Leonard KOVACEK) Subject: Re: Best free BSD/Unix?.... Message-ID: <9414009.25629@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU Organization: D.E.C.R. University of Melbourne, Australia References: <9405181731.aa02668@paw.montana.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 23:38:34 GMT Lines: 23 In article <9405181731.aa02668@paw.montana.com>, ljs@paw.montana.com (Luke J. Schelvan) writes: > I'm looking for a free/dirtcheap version of BSD (or something else besides > Linux) to run a small multiuser chat/bulletin board system on a TCP/IP > network. Thus, I need the following capabilities: > > 1) works with an IDE hard drive > 2) has the necessary TCP/IP stuff including telnet, ftp, etc. > 3) comes with a compiler, or a compiler is available. Preferrably gcc but > any standard cc compiler would be fine. (I will need to use inet libraries > so it will work on the tcp/ip network.) > 4) will work with an ethernet card; I don't really care which. > 5) should handle up to 3 or 4 "real" users and maybe 100 or so open sockets for > the bulletin board system. Give NETBSD a go, its the most Berkley compatible of the lot, code being pretty straight forward to compile from SUNS and many other UNIX platforms.. All the networking stuff is there and it supports your hardware. I would say also that 386BSD is a good system too, but falling a litle behind now because of NETBSD and the different paths people are taking with newer versions of PC unix systems.. Michael