From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 12 21:31:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25264 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA25221 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 30518 invoked from network); 13 Jun 1998 04:30:20 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 13 Jun 1998 04:30:20 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm7-197.realtime.net [204.96.0.197]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA24511; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:30:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:37:25 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Tim Parkinson cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? In-Reply-To: <000b01bd95ea$68bf5f20$92194798@stimpy> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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