Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:37:25 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Tim Parkinson <tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980612232808.2677A-100000@barnowl> In-Reply-To: <000b01bd95ea$68bf5f20$92194798@stimpy>
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Tim Parkinson wrote: > I'm curious as to what people are using their FreeBSD machines for. I know > some people who are complete UN*X nutcases, yet when asked, why they use it > they can't answer. > I was just thinking about specific applications that people had. I use it on three machines at home. All are on a LAN and the server has internet access, providing same for all users. I also run Apache to serve up all the documentation for everything on the systems. HtDig is used to index the documentation on the server (and anything else I put into html) as well as the FreeBSD site (for the latest docs.) Htdig is also used to index and search sites of interest on the internet - putting them into a local database. This way a hit on the local database can go to the internet thru aliasing on user ppp. The other, more prosaic, stuf is e-mail, letter writing, balancing the old checkbook (always 0 ;-)). I also use it to write stuff for work. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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