Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:07:07 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: "Samer, Michael, IN" <Michael.Samer@Ingolstadt.BERTRANDT.com> Cc: "Brainstorm User FreeBSDGroup (E-Mail)" <bs@rak.franken.de>, "FreeBSD Questions (E-Mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Pedro A M Vazquez [vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br] (E-Mail)" <vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <36CACD0B.51487DF9@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <DE7D44483D7ED211BF3300A0C93B22770C7AC2@in_sv_off>
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Hello One of the most used proxy used for FTP and Web applications is Squid (suid' home page is on http://squid.nlanr.net/) Squid is available as a precompiled package for FreeBSD (in the www category if you use /stand/sysinstall) TfH "Samer, Michael, IN" wrote: > > Hallo out there, > I've had the opportunity to read your Article in 2nd FB News. It's > completely true! FreeBSD is apart from beeing free (of charge) a very good > OS! We work here (in my work) with NT and other MS Apps and it always > fascinated (=horrified) me (as an assembler programmer) how U could > spent/waste so much memory/storage. Everything is programmed there "Quick > and Dirty", especially the OS's! > I'm (re-) started with 2.2.8 again just a month ago (formerly in 1993 with > 386BSD 0.xy????), and even when I like to hack the consol and using the kill > -9 very often the system never failed. Still a few devices (e.g. my ISDN > Card) remains "dead", but I guess I need time to learn how to create my own > drivers. (I'm quite used to have a big search-time for drivers for my > beloved OS: OS/2). I'd like to use a dedicated Server for my new > dedicated-line to the Internet. It should work as a self-surfin' proxy and > ftp-mirror. As working in a high-technology company (we just "thrown" out > our 9GB Arrays because newer 36GB are available......thrown to my home > "office" ;-) ) Disk space is no problem. But to have a rock-stable and > comfortable ftp and proxy is not so easy. But what I've heard FreeBSD (or > Linux--but I've used Linux 0.93 and 1.01 and 2.02 and 4.1 and 5.0/5.2 and > it's getting bigger and more powersucking any release coming...) is the > right way! Could U agree?! > > Greetings to all users/hackers/sysops > Sam > > My E-Mail adresses are: > > sam.vanratt@gmx.net > or > Michael.Samer@ingolstadt.bertrandt.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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