From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 05:24:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC5F106566B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dcarmich@dcarmichael.net) Received: from omr4.networksolutionsemail.com (omr4.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191048FC18 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:24:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dcarmich@dcarmichael.net) Received: from mail.networksolutionsemail.com (ns-omr4.mgt.netsol.com [10.49.6.67]) by omr4.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id m254nnoh001766 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:49:49 -0500 Received: (qmail 6891 invoked by uid 78); 5 Mar 2008 04:49:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dc-laptop-wir.carmichael.lan) (dcarmich@dcarmichael.net@24.192.83.79) by ns-omr4.lb.hosting.dc2.netsol.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2008 04:49:49 -0000 Message-Id: From: Douglas Carmichael To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:48:58 -0600 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Returning to the FreeBSD community ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:24:28 -0000 After a long absence from the FreeBSD community (I used it on my laptop through high school and a bit of college), I'm now returning to the fold and will be implementing a FreeBSD-based server setup for a recording studio as my first "commercial" project. Currently, I'm getting "back into the pool" with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE in VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro, and it seems like there have been a lot of improvements to the OS and infrastructure behind it. Do you think that it could work well in an environment where it would be serving large audio/video files? (Would you want SAS drives in the server?) Anyway... glad to be back! :)