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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!hedunx!hedunx!not-for-mail From: hartr@hedunx.hedland.edu.au (Robert Hart) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Help to choose version of UNIX! Date: 25 Jan 1995 02:14:41 +0800 Organization: Hedland College Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3g3g2h$pr4@hedunx.hedland.edu.au> References: <dyuryd.24.00143B5F@io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: hedunx.hedland.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Yury Donskoy (dyuryd@io.org) wrote: : Hi there, : I would like to put a version of UNIX on my PC at home. I have a 486SX-33, : 8MB RAM, 250MB IDE, 660MB SCSI, CD-ROM. I would like to find out which : version of UNIX better to put on my machine: 386BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, etc? : Any help would be greatly appreciated! I can thoroughly recommend Linux - we are using it for nameservers, personal workstations and are about to set up two machines with 16 port serial cards to act as dial in terminal/SLIP/PPP servers. We use the Red Hat Software distribution by the way (after evaluating Yggdrasil and Slackware). -- Robert Hart hartr@hedunx.hedland.edu.au Voice: +61 (0)91 72 0429 Fax: +61 (0)91 72 3560 Hedland College, PMB 1, South Hedland WA 6722 Australia