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On 6 Apr 1995 Jim_Moody@pcworld.com wrote:

>      Rex,
>      
>      I am thinking, for my own small consulting firm, of putting up an 
>      internet site  primarily for 
>      running a WWW site.  I'm a DOS guy, a middling good programmer who 
>      doesn't at the moment, and pretty savvy about some things.  I am not a 
>      UNIX adept.  I've been reading some things about LINUX ... like books, 
>      with paper pages and everything ... and it seems pretty 
Suggestion:  foru about $20-70 you can buy a Linux CD.  If you don't want 
to put a CD on your server, you will need to copy the distribution disks 
to floppies.  I reccomend SlackWare, Plug'n'Play, or RedHat.

You could run off of the CD and a 10 Meg DOS file, but you will get much 
better performance if you upgrade to about 300 Meg Disk partition and
install everything directly to hard disk.  This will let you run GUI
(X11R4) and Xview (Sun) applications.  Also load the AUIS word processing 
and E-Mail package.  That will give you an HTML editor.

>      straightforward.  Do you think I could, assuming I could network a 
>      couple of machines together OK, get a LINUX system up and running?  
If you have the technical sophistication to bring up and configure 
Windows 3.1 and a few Applications, you should have little trouble 
bringing up Linux.  Plug'n'Play or Red Hat have nice friendly GUI set-ups.
Slackware has a Character based set-up.  You just keep typing Yes.
There are about 800 applications, it's nice to know what they are.

Purchase your Linux, then make sure your hardware matches.  The only 
problems I have had have been when I had to set up an unsupported driver
or controller (custom interrupts).

>      And can I run a commercial grade Web Server with security and all on 
>      it?  Your candid opinion would be most gratefully accepted.
You can put up httpd.

You will also want to turn on the security features (Kerberos protected 
telnet, ftp, protected servers...).

Once everything is configured, you may want to start up the system in 
text mode and let the users have most of the CPU time.

>      Jim Moody
>      PC WORLD Online
>      
>      and also
>      
>      Two Bears Communications
> 
> 
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> 	Rex Ballard

	Rex Ballard 

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