Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:11:17 +0300 (EET DST) From: Siris Vasilios <vsiris@csi.forth.gr> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: vsiris@ics.forth.gr Subject: RE: What do newbies do with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199905190911.MAA14915@sappho-lane.ics.forth.gr>
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Hello folks. Here's my testimony of what newbies do with FreeBSD. I came across FreeBSD because that was the platform used by CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) for its Coral development (in short, this is drivers+software for capturing and analyzing traffic on a Pentium PC which passively taps an OC3 link). Hence, I use FreeBSD on a Pentium box for capturing traffic from a 155Mb/s OC3 link. Up to this point, I have installed and built a new kernel with no problem whatsoever. Indeed, everything has gone so smoothly that the other workstations I will be purchasing (to be used for analyzing traces), will definitely be Pentium boxes running FreeBSD. Why ? Well simply because my software runs on the Pentium (450Mhz w/256 MB) over three times faster than on our Enterprise and Ultra servers... As for administration? Well, when you learn how OSs should be built and grow up using BSD, then I think the task of administrating such a workstation will be at least less frightening than, e.g., administrating the NT workstation I have on my desk... Of course the above are my opinion... Regards Vasilios To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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