From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 5: 2:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5249C14E19 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 05:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 84982 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1999 12:02:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.snowmoon.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Oct 1999 12:02:20 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:02:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole To: don't haveone Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions 2 In-Reply-To: <19991028053440.14867.rocketmail@web1601.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, don't haveone wrote: > OK, I'll clarify the cross platform statement. What > I'm looking for is an OS that is a desktop OS, that is > also capable of being used as a server. Also needs to > have several programs ported for it. I know that FBSD > is able to use the same ones as Linux, or most of > them. Well, so far you've described most of the open source Unix varients. What are you specifically looking for? FWIW, I'm using a FreeBSD system right now for email (pine and TWIG), ssh, web browsing, file management, MP3 playing, AppleTalk file serving, web serving, and maybe a few other things that I've forgotten. I've got another system (a mere 486sx!) that's active as a server for a handful of friends and has ssh, telnet, ftp, web serving, email (via pine and the webmail system TWIG), an IRC client, and a BBS (via apache, mod_perl, and WWWThreads). To my knowledge, the Zip drive won't work in FreeBSD unless its SCSI (or, maybe, IDE). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message