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From: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@mail.cadvision.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).
> 
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