From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 5 6:45:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.thuntek.net (mail2.thuntek.net [206.206.98.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A5A37BD67 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 06:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Received: from Silver-Lynx.com (abq-135.thuntek.net [207.66.52.135]) by mail2.thuntek.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA43800 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 07:45:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Message-ID: <39633C0E.BBA6FBC8@Silver-Lynx.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:45:50 -0600 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: Don@Silver-Lynx.com Organization: Silver Lynx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why run FreeBSD on a laptop? References: <200007050527.WAA08012@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I use it to demonstrate FreeBSD-based websites. I run Apache, MySQL and our custom Apache C API code and show potential clients what we do with Netscape on the same machine. It's not as quick as my SCSI-disk machines, but it works pretty well, ATC. Since our code uses lots of processes and sockets and shared memory, it's essential to use BSD. Now that I have Applixware for wysiwyg word processing and MS Wierd file import, why would I need anything else? Gee, it's even virus-proof... -- Donald Wilde "Linking Minds and Micros" ================= S i l v e r L y n x =================== PMB 117, 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd SE v: 505-771-0709 f: 771-1356 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 web: http://www.Silver-Lynx.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message