Date: 28 Oct 1999 16:11:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions 2 Message-ID: <86puxz6366.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: don't haveone's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:34:40 -0700 (PDT)" References: <19991028053440.14867.rocketmail@web1601.mail.yahoo.com>
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don't haveone <hacked666@yahoo.com> writes: > 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. That's exactly the idea. But any open-sourced Unix variant that can be found around will do that and more. I am using my relatively old i586/133 machine with FreeBSD: + as a POP3 client (pulling the mail off my mail accounts) + as a mail server (pushing new mail to my ISP's mail gateway) + to browse the network with netscape + to edit my papers in Emacs, and typeset them with teTeX + to edit programs and test them with GCC and a zillion other things, which I can't remember right now. > 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. In FreeBSD, there is always /usr/ports that can help you install a very large collection of programs with a simple "make install" command. If, however, you have some Linux program that is not included in the ports, and you want to run it, the Linux emulation can be of some help; (well, the word "emulation" is not quite right here, but it gives you the general idea). -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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