From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 5:33: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ho_sv_mail.bertrandt.com (HO-SV-MAIL.bertrandt.com [195.30.180.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0F311024 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 05:33:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Michael.Samer@Ingolstadt.BERTRANDT.com) Received: by HO-SV-MAIL.bertrandt.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id <1X9N1MCK>; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:35:20 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Samer, Michael, IN" To: "Brainstorm User FreeBSDGroup (E-Mail)" , "FreeBSD Questions (E-Mail)" , "Pedro A M Vazquez [vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br] (E-Mail)" Subject: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:28:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hallo out there, I've had the opportunity to read your Article in 2nd FB News. It's completely true! FreeBSD is apart from beeing free (of charge) a very good OS! We work here (in my work) with NT and other MS Apps and it always fascinated (=horrified) me (as an assembler programmer) how U could spent/waste so much memory/storage. Everything is programmed there "Quick and Dirty", especially the OS's! I'm (re-) started with 2.2.8 again just a month ago (formerly in 1993 with 386BSD 0.xy????), and even when I like to hack the consol and using the kill -9 very often the system never failed. Still a few devices (e.g. my ISDN Card) remains "dead", but I guess I need time to learn how to create my own drivers. (I'm quite used to have a big search-time for drivers for my beloved OS: OS/2). I'd like to use a dedicated Server for my new dedicated-line to the Internet. It should work as a self-surfin' proxy and ftp-mirror. As working in a high-technology company (we just "thrown" out our 9GB Arrays because newer 36GB are available......thrown to my home "office" ;-) ) Disk space is no problem. But to have a rock-stable and comfortable ftp and proxy is not so easy. But what I've heard FreeBSD (or Linux--but I've used Linux 0.93 and 1.01 and 2.02 and 4.1 and 5.0/5.2 and it's getting bigger and more powersucking any release coming...) is the right way! Could U agree?! Greetings to all users/hackers/sysops Sam My E-Mail adresses are: sam.vanratt@gmx.net or Michael.Samer@ingolstadt.bertrandt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message