Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 07:52:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com> To: stick11@razorlogic.com (Stick) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, is it for me? Message-ID: <199705151252.HAA09411@d2si.com> In-Reply-To: <337AFB6D.6422@razorlogic.com> from Stick at "May 15, 97 05:02:53 am"
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 07:35:55 1997
> Message-ID: <337AFB6D.6422@razorlogic.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 05:02:53 -0700
> From: Stick <stick11@razorlogic.com>
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> Subject: FreeBSD, is it for me?
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> Hello,
>
> I have been looking through your FreeBSD web site trying to answere a
> question i have but i am finding that i can't answer this question by
> myself. I hope that you could answer my question or possibly point me in
> the right dirrection. My question(s) is:
>
> I was thinking of hosting my own Internet site using my computer, is
> that possible using FreeBSD? If so what else will I need to make this
> possible?
You'll need some way to connect to the internet--on
the cheapest end, you'll need a modem, a spare
telephone line (or use your voice line if you don't
mind tying it up) and an account with some sort of
service provider. A simple dynamic-ip dialin will
typically run you $20/month. If you can dial into
your school with dynamic-ip, that'll work too.
>
> The university that i am attending run three unix base systems for their
> web server, e-mail, and other stuff. If i had FreeBSD, is there a way
> that i connect to their computers?
There are lots of ways to connect FreeBSD to lots of
other computers. You can use (among other things):
NFS
Appletalk
SMB (Windows networking)
telnet
ftp
POP (post office protocol)
HTTP (world-wide-web)
X11
and who knows how many other ways.
>
> The classes i am taking at this university have my using unix on
> occasions, could i use FreeBSD on my computer to learn more and do some
> of my work on my computer rather than using Hyper Terminal (W95) to
> connect to the Universities computers?
FreeBSD comes with a C compiler (of course) and you
can get many other tools, as I recall, the computer
I'm sitting at has C, C++, fortran, scheme,
smalltalk, TeX, metafont, and a few other languages.
I've had very good luck compiling C and C++
assignments on FreeBSD, SunOS, and IRIX without any
changes to the source code.
>
> Thank you for your time! =-)
>
> Stephen "Stick" Hazen
>
> sjh10@axe.humboldt.edu
> stick11@razorlogic.com
> http://www.humboldt.edu/~sjh10
>
It sounds to me like FreeBSD could very possibly be
for you.
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