Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:10:57 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Message-ID: <199806121610.JAA08591@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>From: "Tim Parkinson" <tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk> >Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:11:04 +0100 >I'm curious as to what people are using their FreeBSD machines for. I know >some people who are complete UN*X nutcases, yet when asked, why they use it >they can't answer. >I was just thinking about specific applications that people had. Well, here at Whistle, we have a couple of boxes running Solaris 2.x for specific applications (that are either "not" or "poorly" supported for FreeBSD), but all our other UNIX machines are FreeBSD. So we do the usual: a variety of internal & external Web servers; mail servers; NIS; nameservice.... We also have a lot of desktop FreeBSD boxen, such as the one I'm using to read & write email now. There are some folks here who (for whatever reasons) run Microsoft environments, and to accomodate them, we're also running a SAMBA server. And we make a rather neat little box that runs FreeBSD on the insides.... :-) At home, I run Suns.... :-} (No PC hardware there -- oh, except for one piece of an embedded system that I haven't powered up yet... and when I do, it will be so I can figure out what it's doing & replicate the work on a better platform... probably with Perl scripts.) Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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