From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 17 22:50:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA10153 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:50:12 -0700 Received: from chrome.onramp.net (chrome.onramp.net [199.1.166.202]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA10141 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:50:10 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chrome.onramp.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA04682; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:50:33 -0500 Message-Id: <199507180550.AAA04682@chrome.onramp.net> X-Authentication-Warning: chrome.onramp.net: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Uses for FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 1995 18:13:45 PDT." <199507180113.SAA06000@rah.star-gate.com> Reply-To: jdl@chromatic.com Clarity-Index: null Threat-Level: none Software-Engineering-Dead-Seriousness: There's no excuse for unreadable code. Net-thought: If you meet the Buddha on the net, put him in your Kill file. Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:50:33 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In a hasty message, Amancio Hasty Jr. scribbled: > This brings about another interesting point what are people doing > with FreeBSD besides kernel hacking or system related work? I use it at home on a small 10Base-T net with a Windows-95 machine as the basis for my job. Sadly, I live in Dallas while the company for whom I work is in Silly Valley. I connect via ISDN to my local provider. I have eaten, slept and breathed BSD for, like, the past 15 years or so, and the notion of going Windoze 95 cold turkey just scared me to death.... In short, I use it at work and home as a production machine where I write (and debug...) compilers on it. For the terminally curious, I currently run: kern.osrevision = 199306 kern.version = FreeBSD 2.0.5-950622-SNAP #0: Thu Jun 22 04:15:25 1995 root@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC Which is pretty much right out of the box on a Dell Pentium 90 with a #9 GXE64 card, 16M and a couple gig of WD3100 disk space. I've had no problem with it at all and am quite happy with it! jdl