From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 6:12:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF6610EBE for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:12:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id PAA08217; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:10:51 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id PAA26769; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:08:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA18641; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:53:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06016; Wed, 17 Feb 99 15:02:10 +0100 Message-Id: <36CACD0B.51487DF9@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:07:07 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Samer, Michael, IN" Cc: "Brainstorm User FreeBSDGroup (E-Mail)" , "FreeBSD Questions (E-Mail)" , "Pedro A M Vazquez [vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br] (E-Mail)" Subject: Re: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello One of the most used proxy used for FTP and Web applications is Squid (suid' home page is on http://squid.nlanr.net/) Squid is available as a precompiled package for FreeBSD (in the www category if you use /stand/sysinstall) TfH "Samer, Michael, IN" wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message