From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 14 12:42:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18449 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 12:42:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18359 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 12:41:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02050; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 11:28:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980614112838.55127@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 11:28:38 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Stuart Krivis , Nik Clayton Cc: Tim Parkinson , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? References: <19980613112413.17708@nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Stuart Krivis on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 10:49:42AM -0400 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 10:49:42AM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > and probably other bits and pieces. > > All of which simply says that FreeBSD can do just about anything that any > other unix can (within the limits of the PC hardware and availability of > commercial software.) Oh, absolutely. > > It's not used as much at my current job because we're pretty much a Solaris > > shop. I do use it as my desktop workstation though. > > Even then, PC unix can be very cost-effective for certain things. And > FreeBSD or Linux are much less expensive than Solaris x86. :-) Yeah. Some of our internal firewall and masquerading kit runs FreeBSD and Linux. But our webservers, nameservers and so on are all Solaris for the suit's peace of mind. > > and I plan on experimenting with Amancio's suggestions for how to set up > > a FreeBSD box+modem+soundcard as an answerphone. > > I tried this out on my Mac. It was kind of cool to do, but a standard > answering machine is a better solution. :-) Sorry, I stopped paying attention to that sentence after the "kind of cool" phrase. Besides, you can't do telephone trees with a standard answerphone, nor can it mail you your messages as attachments, or play different greeting based on the CLID. . . N -- You are in a maze of twisty signature files all the same. -- You are in a maze of twisty signature files all alike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message