From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 00:18:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA06435 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:18:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06430 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA26775; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:18:12 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:18:12 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Ken Hsu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD In-Reply-To: <199703140702.XAA14266@taurus.oac.uci.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Ken Hsu wrote: > How does BSD power an internet server ? > How does it work ? > > FreeBSD is just an operating systme. Just like any other OS it won't do much by itself. However, it supports a wide variety of applications for providing all sorts of internet services such as: DNS, mail, ftp, web, nntp, etc., and you'll be able to find almost anything you need for it for free. Just look aroung http://www.freebsd.org (especially under Documentation...) to see if it fits you. Be warned, though, that setting up a server, especially with UNIX-style OS's (which FreeBSD is), is a task with a steep learning curve, so be ready to read books and go through many trials and errors if you decide to setup such a thing for the first time. Nadav