From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 21 21:00:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20633 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bamboo.verinet.com (bamboo.verinet.com [204.144.246.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20623 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allenc@verinet.com) Received: from struct. (fern1.verinet.com [199.45.181.65]) by bamboo.verinet.com (8.8.8/8.7.1) with ESMTP id WAA19981; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:00:03 -0600 Received: from verinet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by struct. (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04856; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:59:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from allenc@verinet.com) Message-ID: <35DE423E.F7DAD9FE@verinet.com> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:59:58 -0600 From: Allen Campbell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kevink@mindless.com CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: main platform? References: <3.0.1.32.19980821053638.0068ea4c@pop.netaddress.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org kevink@mindless.com wrote: > > Who uses FreeBSD as their primary computing platform at home? > I maintain one main server running FreeBSD and several older pentiums as X terminals running a mix of FreeBSD and Linux, all on a small Ethernet network. One of the X terminals boots into Windows for MS Word. I can not remember the last time I did that. Hmmm. Recently, I was surprised to realize that my server, in all its various forms over the years, has never crashed. The X terminals lunch themselves from time to time due to X server bugs and hardware failures. However the server, since 2.1.5 when I started running FreeBSD, has never crashed. How boring. :) -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the gravity allenc@verinet.com | well, getting dumber and dumber. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message