In message <19991112022600.14594.rocketmail@web601.yahoomail.com>, binaryz writ
es:
>As far as what I want, well it won't be a "desktop"
>OS.  I'm looking for a good web/ftp server.  Basically
>I'm supposed to find the best OS to run  Apache/mySQL
>on.  I was planning to use Linux, until I heard Yahoo!
>uses FreeBSD, so I thought I'd look into it, and here
>I am stuck with 3 different versions of BSD :)

I am of the general opinion that BSD family stuff is superior, as a server,
to Linux.  YMMV.

>So far I've installed OpenBSD (which btw is a pain to
>install, IMHO).  FreeBSD is having network problems
>getting to the FTP site and I just found this NetBSD
>site so I thought I'd check this one; sounds more
>network oriented :)

Not really, but I will say, the NetBSD install is a breeze.
The "Net" vs. "Free" thing is really meaningless.  However, NetBSD's
installer got fixed up a bit recently, and it's quite nice.

-s