Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 07:38:59 -0600 From: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@mail.cadvision.com> Cc: "don't haveone" <hacked666@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions 2 Message-ID: <381851F3.C482692E@mail.cadvision.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910280757250.84860-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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I run a 100mb parallel zip drive under freebsd 3.3 . Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com Jaime Kikpole wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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