From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 13 07:23:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23045 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 07:23:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23029 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 07:23:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05808; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:24:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980613112413.17708@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:24:13 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Tim Parkinson , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? References: <000b01bd95ea$68bf5f20$92194798@stimpy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <000b01bd95ea$68bf5f20$92194798@stimpy>; from Tim Parkinson on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:11:04AM +0100 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:11:04AM +0100, Tim Parkinson wrote: > I'm curious as to what people are using their FreeBSD machines for. Back in 1994/1995 when I was at university, I started up a project at the student radio station. We hooked up a FreeBSD box containing a soundcard to the network, and started multicasting the station's output around the network. People could 'tune in' with a client I wrote for SunOS. This was version 2.0 of FreeBSD. This was my first experience with FreeBSD -- I'd had a pretty good grounding in the Unix user experience, but this was my first exposure to admin'ing a box, and I had to hit the ground running. As well as serving the audio streams around campus, the machine eventually ended up being the station's web server, mail host, irc server, and sundry other bits and pieces. I also acquired a couple of dumb terminals and hooked them up in to the two studio's so the DJs could pull up the station's record library (also on there, and web enabled due to some Perl I put together), read mail that arrived as they were broadcasting, and so on. Then I left university and got my first job. FreeBSD came with me, and was pressed into service as - My desktop workstation - Internet gateway - Company mail server - Mail -> fax server - Web site development host - NFS server/client - SAMBA server to Win95/NT machines - CAP server to the Macintosh machines - Firewall and probably other bits and pieces. It's not used as much at my current job because we're pretty much a Solaris shop. I do use it as my desktop workstation though. At home, my (single) FreeBSD machine provides my Internet connection. I develop web sites for friends on it, play around with fun and interesting technologies (linking web pages to a Postgres database with PHP is my current challenge) and other general bits and pieces. There's a BT848 TV card in there so I can put music shows on in one corner of the screen, and I plan on experimenting with Amancio's suggestions for how to set up a FreeBSD box+modem+soundcard as an answerphone. N To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message