Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 09:50:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: main platform? Message-ID: <XFMail.980822095031.conrads@neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980821053638.0068ea4c@pop.netaddress.com>
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On 21-Aug-98 kevink@mindless.com wrote: > Who uses FreeBSD as their primary computing platform at home? I do, have been for a little over two years now. I still have Windows 95 on a separate hard drive, but about the only time I use it is when I need to run Quicken to pay my bills, or when I feel like dabbling with a little MIDI composing/arranging using Cakewalk. But basically, I have FreeBSD running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Got a local news server (INN 1.7.2) running (reading news locally is heaven!), pulling in news from my ISP at half-hour intervals using suck, local caching DNS server, fetchmail to retrieve my mail every half-hour (I'm subscribed to about a dozen lists and get a lotta mail), and so on and so forth. One would have to be insane to want to give up this kind of power in favor of a "pretty" OS that crashes routinely, has a crippled command line shell, and basically only lets you do whatever the idiot user interface to any particular program allows you to do. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Date: 22-Aug-98 Time: 09:41:40 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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