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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!eesun2!ptam From: ptam@eesun2.tamu.edu (Pak Yin Tam) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NFS - Linux or BSD? Date: 7 Feb 1995 03:35:36 GMT Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University Lines: 27 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <3h6pq8$md7@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eesun2.tamu.edu Hi. I am setting up a new lab which has 2 Pentium 90 PC's, 2 NeXT, 1 DECStation and 2 SGI. Originally I have Linux 1.0.9 installed on the 2 PC's with XFree 2.1. I am generally very happy with the Linux box as an standalone computer. Now I am going to setup NFS across all the machines so that all machines will have some uniform directory structures. I've heard that BSD is better in networking. My questions are: 1. What is the difference between NETBSD 1.0 and FreeBSD 2.0? 2. Is X-Free included in standard distribution? I'm planning to get it from Infomagic (BSDisc CDROM). 3. Compared to Linux, which is easier to install as far as NFS is concerned? 4. Where can I get the support documentation? The P90 configurations are: P90, 256K Cache, 32M RAM, Adaptec 1542CF SCSI-2 controller, ATI Mach 32 Graphics Ultra Pro PCI, SMC 8013 Ethernet card, Micropolis and Seagate 1G SCSI-2 HD, Texel SCSI 2X CDROM. I guess the above are pretty standard configurations... Thanks 2^1000 times. Fred