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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:28353 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3872 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news3.acns.nwu.edu!news.eecs.nwu.edu!ahab.eecs.nwu.edu!hpa From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Can your beer do this? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-ID: <hpa.41cf0000.I.use.Linux@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu X-Pgp-Key-Available: finger hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: The United Federation of Planets References: <38mlrk$h93@nyx10.cs.du.edu> <38mtlc$8ce@mojo.eng.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 09:02:00 GMT Lines: 29 Followup to: <38mtlc$8ce@mojo.eng.umd.edu> By author: publius@eng.umd.edu (Matt Beal) In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc > > I'm afraid I know nothing about NetBSD and can make no recommendations > there. I heartily recommend Linux, though I have no live net connection > so can therefore make no comment about it's net reliability. Can't hurt > to give it a try though :-) > I have run a Linux system for over a year directly connected to the Internet providing a whole slew of services. I can safely say that while the pre-1.0 kernels were a bit iffy in their stability, current kernels are rock-solid; with the possible exception that kernels past 1.1.51 seem to have a tendency to not let any network traffic at all out if a mounted NFS server dies (I haven't tried 1.1.55 or later, because of bug reports... I run a production system so I am a bit careful). I hence run 1.1.51 at the moment, and heartily recommend it. /hpa P.S: You might have to increase the number of sockets at kernel compile time in order to support a very large number of users. -- INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha --- IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101 AN UNDETECTABLE ERROR HAS OCCURRED [actual MS-Windows 3.1 error message]