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From: bert@planete.com (Michael Bertrand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 95 06:46:22 GMT
Organization: Planet Internet
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In article <3ujlf1$sn0@felix.junction.net>,
   michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) wrote:

|We use Linux, but there is nothing wrong with choosing FreeBSD. One thing 
|that the BSD systems are good at is NFS. This is a weak point of Linux so 
|we don't use it. Pick whichever UNIX you want (or try both) and roll up 
|your sleeves. It is a lot of work setting up and running an ISP.

This is where NT takes off!  A guy who knows what he is doing can get a system 
up and running in a couple of hours (from install to end) a guy who doesn't 
know will take a day.



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Michael 'Bert' Bertrand                | Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity   .
System Administrator, Planet Internet  | Kappa Chi Chapter, Scroll 350    .
admin@planete.com                      | Concordia University, Montreal .
          Only my mother loves me,  and she may be jiving me too.