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From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 18 Jul 1995 01:43:40 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
: In article <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com>, Hyung-song Nam <namh@panix.com> wrote:
: > I'm about to setup some P5-100  machines to provide
: > internet services. I need to choose an OS, and I have
: > come to three choices: Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows NT.

Our company (an ISP) set up a (somewhat experimental) Linux 1.2.5 box as a 
6-line PPP server - it crashes about every two days, the uptime is seldom
longer than 1 week. Like a time bomb. We are planning to move to FreeBSD.
And if FreeBSD is still not stable enough, we will eventually move to BSD/OS.

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Yen-Wei Liu 
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