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Re: (ASCEND) In Defense Of Ascend...



Same here with BSDI.  

Alex P

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Jason Nealis wrote:

> 
>  FYI, Just let it be known, That here at Erols we use LINUX all over
> the network from accounting servers to authentication server to WWW
> servers to DNS servers. 
> 
>  We even developed a radius that is far more optimized for speed then
> just about anything out there, LINUX has a BIG presence out
> in the ISP industry. 
> 
> Jason Nealis
> Erols Internet
> 
> 
> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, David Lesher wrote:
> 
> > Matt Holdrege sez:
> > > >This is simply solved by picking a stable distribution of Linux and
> > > >supporting that. Redhat or Caldera would probably be a good choice.
> > > 
> > > Ah, but which one? Who chooses? And what about all those ISP's that use
> > > FreeBSD and NetBSD? Another thought. If you are going to pay for an Ascend
> > > commercial software product, why not pay for a Unix commercial product?
> > 
> > Well, RedHat has a major effort underway to work with commercial
> > folks.....
> > 
> > There are several reasons RH Linux is getting widespread use in
> > commercial settings; cost is often the least of them.. And if it
> > an issue; every cent spent on the OS is money not available to
> > send on Ascend gear.....
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
> > & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
> > Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
> > is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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