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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Which allows better corporate Internet access? Linux, FreeBSD, or ???
Date: 30 Dec 1995 00:02:19 GMT
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doug@creation.portal.ca (Doug Schmidt) writes:

> 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?

Whatever you find better.

Technically, both should be suitable.  So base your decision upon the
amount of help you could get from your friends etc.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)