From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 10 0:48:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [204.188.6.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6C64150F2 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 00:48:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unfurl@toxic.magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 31177 invoked by uid 1001); 10 May 1999 07:48:19 -0000 Date: 10 May 1999 00:48:19 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 00:48:19 -0700 From: Bill Swingle To: Dan Langille Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do newbies do with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990510004819.A31153@dub.net> References: <19990510074529.EJEI7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990510074529.EJEI7623210.mta2-rme@wocker>; from Dan Langille on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:43:21PM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Several years ago I lived with a friend that was running FreeBSD and he convinced me to set up my machine for dual boot (Win95/FreeBSD). I had my Win95 partition doublespaced and when trying to mount it from FreeBSD hosed somethgin I didnt know how to fix and ended up scratchign the whole disk and installing just FreeBSD. :) So I guess I used it for a desktop box first :) -Bill On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:43:21PM +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > This may sound like a sarcastic question, but I assure it is not. We were > talking about this just a few minutes ago. > > I'll be the first to answer. I started using FreeBSD to act as a firewall > and a gateway. Eventually I started using the mail server, web server, > and the mailing list server. > > What did you do? -- -=| Bill Swingle - -=| "I hate quotations." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -=| FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! - http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message