From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 22 07:53:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08211 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08206 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:53:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA01904 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 09:50:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980821053638.0068ea4c@pop.netaddress.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 09:50:31 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: main platform? Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Aug-98 kevink@mindless.com wrote: > Who uses FreeBSD as their primary computing platform at home? I do, have been for a little over two years now. I still have Windows 95 on a separate hard drive, but about the only time I use it is when I need to run Quicken to pay my bills, or when I feel like dabbling with a little MIDI composing/arranging using Cakewalk. But basically, I have FreeBSD running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Got a local news server (INN 1.7.2) running (reading news locally is heaven!), pulling in news from my ISP at half-hour intervals using suck, local caching DNS server, fetchmail to retrieve my mail every half-hour (I'm subscribed to about a dozen lists and get a lotta mail), and so on and so forth. One would have to be insane to want to give up this kind of power in favor of a "pretty" OS that crashes routinely, has a crippled command line shell, and basically only lets you do whatever the idiot user interface to any particular program allows you to do. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Conrad Sabatier Date: 22-Aug-98 Time: 09:41:40 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message