From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 9:34:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from naimail.mcafeemail.com (naimail.mcafeemail.com [206.79.140.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E2A314C98 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glgreen@mcafeemail.com) X-Internal-ID: 37F1A0980002FEA7 Received: from www2 (206.79.140.72) by naimail.mcafeemail.com (NPlex 2.0.123) for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:32:31 -0700 Message-ID: <37F1A0980002FEA7@naimail.mcafeemail.com> (added by postmaster@naimail.mcafeemail.com) Reply-To: glgreen@mcafeemail.com From: "Gladstone Green" Subject: FreeBSD and Home Networking Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:34:15 -0700 X-Mailer: Visto To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Visto Server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been using RedHat Linux 6.0, kernel 2.2.5-15 for the past six mont= hs. I am pretty satisfied but I am always looking for something better. = I am looking for an operating system that I can use at home for a small = network (3 PC's). The server would be connected to the internet by a cab= le modem and the clients would be running Win95. What I am looking for a= re as follows; a firewall, file and print services for the clients, inter= net access for all the clients from the single cable line, the possibilit= y to start and maintain a web page with security. Why would FreeBSD be m= y best choice and also how easy is it to maintain? Are there any Net/Sys= Admin books available to help me out? Can I use applications that are p= orted to Linux (Star Office, the GIMP, etc) on FreeBSD? _________________________________________________________ Get Visto! Groups, event calendars, email, and more... Check it out @ http://www.visto.com/info The content and views expressed in this message do not in any way reflect the opinions or policies of McAfee.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message