Re: [SLUG] Verizon DSL -- Anything I Should Know?

From: David (res07lvd@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 14:33:17 EDT


David wrote:
I'm on Mauricio's side on this one sorry but I'm not very educated on Linux
but I do use it from time to time. But......I'm wondering what the
difference is in what OS the ISP uses..Whats that go to do with the
connection to the customer?The way I see it is if you have a connection then
all is good..Right?
  Please reply to inform me (I'm willing to learn why the ISP using Win2k
IIS makes a difference to N*x users) with an answer to this.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mauricio Borgen (BIO)" <borgen@chuma.cas.usf.edu>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Verizon DSL -- Anything I Should Know?

>
>
> Urgh!
>
> You are entitled to be a platform bigot but hey it is what we use along
> with "Other" OSes.
>
> FreeBSD
> OSX
> Redhat
>
> are the others.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Smitty wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 19 August 2001 07:15, you wrote:
> > > Hi Doc,
> > >
> > > Check out a small Tampa ISP, http://www.rapidsys.com
> > >
> > > They offer Verizon DSL, static IP, and no contracts for $39 per month.
> > >
> > > Have fun,
> > >
> > Bill,
> > I don't think there would be much fun with the IIS webserver on windows
2000
> > that they use. Please suggest some alternatives that use a real
operating
> > system.
> > Smitty
> >
> >
>



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