Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 07:52:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com> To: stick11@razorlogic.com (Stick) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, is it for me? Message-ID: <199705151252.HAA09411@d2si.com> In-Reply-To: <337AFB6D.6422@razorlogic.com> from Stick at "May 15, 97 05:02:53 am"
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Stick is responsible for: > From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 07:35:55 1997 > Message-ID: <337AFB6D.6422@razorlogic.com> > Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 05:02:53 -0700 > From: Stick <stick11@razorlogic.com> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD, is it for me? > Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Precedence: bulk > Hello, > > I have been looking through your FreeBSD web site trying to answere a > question i have but i am finding that i can't answer this question by > myself. I hope that you could answer my question or possibly point me in > the right dirrection. My question(s) is: > > I was thinking of hosting my own Internet site using my computer, is > that possible using FreeBSD? If so what else will I need to make this > possible? You'll need some way to connect to the internet--on the cheapest end, you'll need a modem, a spare telephone line (or use your voice line if you don't mind tying it up) and an account with some sort of service provider. A simple dynamic-ip dialin will typically run you $20/month. If you can dial into your school with dynamic-ip, that'll work too. > > The university that i am attending run three unix base systems for their > web server, e-mail, and other stuff. If i had FreeBSD, is there a way > that i connect to their computers? There are lots of ways to connect FreeBSD to lots of other computers. You can use (among other things): NFS Appletalk SMB (Windows networking) telnet ftp POP (post office protocol) HTTP (world-wide-web) X11 and who knows how many other ways. > > The classes i am taking at this university have my using unix on > occasions, could i use FreeBSD on my computer to learn more and do some > of my work on my computer rather than using Hyper Terminal (W95) to > connect to the Universities computers? FreeBSD comes with a C compiler (of course) and you can get many other tools, as I recall, the computer I'm sitting at has C, C++, fortran, scheme, smalltalk, TeX, metafont, and a few other languages. I've had very good luck compiling C and C++ assignments on FreeBSD, SunOS, and IRIX without any changes to the source code. > > Thank you for your time! =-) > > Stephen "Stick" Hazen > > sjh10@axe.humboldt.edu > stick11@razorlogic.com > http://www.humboldt.edu/~sjh10 > It sounds to me like FreeBSD could very possibly be for you.
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