Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:59:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: vinny omoyi <vincent@webspan.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980104115900.07094@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980103170619.27831K-100000@localhost>; from Doug White on Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 05:09:02PM -0800 References: <34AD00A0.F48BAC97@webspan.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980103170619.27831K-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 05:09:02PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, vinny omoyi wrote: > >> I have a site at http://www.webspan.net/~vincent/ and I was >> wondering how I can use Free BSD and in what ways that would help me on >> my site. For the 2nd time I have read your page to try and see how I can >> use it but for some reason am not clicking it. Please help. I checked >> out most of the examples of pages that are of satisfied Free BSD users. > > FreeBSD is an operating system. It's what you would run on your web > server instead of whatever www.webspan.net is running now. I doubt they'd > let you do that. I don't think they'd have a problem :-) $ nslookup Default Server: localhost.lemis.com Address: 127.0.0.1 > set type=hinfo > www.webspan.net Server: localhost.lemis.com Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: www.webspan.net canonical name = orion.webspan.net orion.webspan.net CPU = P5-166 OS = FreeBSD-2.1.7-RELEASE > However, if you want to set up your own server on your PC, then > FreeBSD is what you want. And your friends at webspan will be able to understand what you're talking about :-) Under the circumstances, it looks like Doug and I have misunderstood your question. If so, could you restate it, please? Greg
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