Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 16:22:28 -0400 From: "Stuart Krivis" <stuart@krivis.com> To: "Nik Clayton" <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, "Stuart Krivis" <stuart@apk.net> Cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Tim Parkinson" <tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk> Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Message-ID: <199806142026.QAA23819@junior.apk.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 11:28:38 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: >> 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. My company has several webservers running FreeBSD. We've seen no real reason to replace or even update them because they just keep working. I think one runs 2.1.something and has been up for 289 days with almost 200 web sites on it. (The only reason the uptime is so short is that our building lost power for a day. :-) FreeBSD is definitely right up there with the commercial unices in terms of usefulness. > >> 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. . . None of which I need to do at home. That's why my comment about it being cool to try, but not much more... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNYQxBHHCG1Y55htMEQJX8ACgvmlZrk5r1tPlKyn/3mZ7mnNtE5QAn3Gd gTuL1ZH401u+597WrB5waHZX =hIVI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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