Rolf wrote to Russell at 09:29 30 Dec:

 RE> Had a quick look at FreeBSD some years ago. Think it was v2.0 or
 RE> something like that. I will surly try a newer verson soon.

I'm running FreeBSD on my DNS systems. The current system runs on a
5x86/133 with 16MB RAM and a 400MB hard drive. I'm about to expand that,
though. I acquired a pair of Gateway 486 desktops, which I'm going to drop
5x86/133 processors into, 32MB RAM each, and a WD 800MB hard drive.

At my former employer, we dug some P166 systems out of the storage closet
and ramped them up with FreeBSD for 2 DNS servers, a sendmail relay, and a
P2/300 was ramped up to be an Apache server.

What I especially liked about the FreeBSD was the ability to install the
full system via 'net download. I downloaded the boot floppy image, walked
through a short interactive "what do you want installed"
procedure, and then walked away from the machine. It's a really great
'overnight' project.

 RE> Hmmm... think I have v4.1 on CD somewhere. The only problem is,
 RE> that I don't know where.. :).

http://www.freebsd.org :-)

 RE> I have only heard good things about FreeBSD. Maby the only thing,
 RE> is that it's a little more difficult to install, then Linux ?

Having gone through a Slackware installation, a couple of RedHat
installations, and looked at a few others, the FreeBSD installation was a
dream. In fact, the FreeBSD installation was easier than the SCO OpenServer
installation, which is one of the best installation packages I've ever seen
anywhere.


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