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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!van-bc!d212 From: doug@creation.portal.ca (Doug Schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Which allows better corporate Internet access? Linux, FreeBSD, or ??? Date: Thu, 28 Dec 95 19:05:17 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4bv4mk$qrj@wolfe.wimsey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d212.portal.ca X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11211 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5338 I am *struggling* to set up some sort of corporate Internet access with very little budget and almost no resources. (Just a little whine for the holidays). I'd like some suggestions from people who have gone through this before. We currently are running a 50-user Novell 3.12 network for DOS/Windows workstations. We have a dedicated BBS machine online for file access and UUCP mail support. Now that I have hooked up the UUCP mail support, everyone is complaining about the *gross* user interface for email! (Gee, you people didn't even *HAVE* email last month, and now its a big issue!) I have enough spare parts lying around the lab to cobble together a 486 DX/33 with 16 MB RAM and a 1 GB SCSI drive with a 28.8 modem. My guess is that I can set up a dedicated machine running either Linux or FreeBSD, have that machine talk TCP/IP to our Novell network, and run Pegasus under Windows to access mail and/or news on the UNIX box. Then I just have to hook up the UNIX box to our current ISP and voila! So which OS should I choose? Or should I run Windows NT or OS/2? I know these are *very* religious issues, but I appreciate any suggestions. BTW, I am *not* a system administrator, we don't have one. I am just a programmer who needs email access to do his job and who happens to have a $100 signing authority! ASK FORGIVENESS LATER, NOT PERMISSION FIRST! Doug Schmidt Creation Technologies Inc. Phone: 604-430-4336 BBS: 604-430-4376 Email: doug@creation.portal.ca Fax: 604-430-4337