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I run FreeBSD 7 on my fujitsu-siemens s7010d laptop. I use it mainly for eductional purposes (coding, writing etc), also for irc and surfing the web. freebsd works great for all my purposes
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Go for 386BSD. I wouldn't advise FreeBSD on anything less than an i586 nowadays, even a 486 will be tough, but a 386 just won't work. Anyways, you can get i686 class Pentium-2/K6 stuff readily nowadays and have a lot of advantages, so you're much better off doing that than using 386s or even 486s.
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I use FBSD for
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gateway firewall name server dhcp smtp/pop server print server nfs backup server for the other computers workstation personal software project in spare time - perl, CGI, mysql, C++ ports via SWIG (eventually) |
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At the moment I'm using FreeBSD to learn about FreeBSD
My main OS is GNU/Linux Debian, but I wanted to try something else. So far I've had a pretty good experience with FreeBSD. Not too different from what I'm used to in many ways, so I'm doing most thing I've been doing in Debian without much hassle in FreeBSD. This includes e.g. webbrowsing with Firefox and lynx, torrents with Transmission, text processing with LaTeX, text editing with vim, news with slrn, mail with mutt, mplayer for video playback, mencoder for video transcoding and DVD ripping, mpd/sonata for audio playback, audacity for audio editing, gimp/imagemagick for image manipulation, bash for file management and all... The list is endless. I'm also planning to deploy FreeBSD as a router, using a Soekris machine. This then will also include mail/web/print serving. |
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>Maybe you could try this FreeBSD Dvb-t driver (Freecom):
> > http://raaf.atspace.org/dvbusb/ I tried that a while back, but couldn't make it work. I hear there is some movement on these things at Sourceforge but I'm not up-to-speed with that development. Thanks anyway. |
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I have two FreeBSD servers at work
first server is set up as our inhouse email server and has apache set up as our test bed for our website before it goes live online. second server was set to be the backup email server for the primary till they wanted me to stop doing that and set up dansguardian on it, then not use it...go figure... both are freebsd 6.2 stable i also have an old p3 system with openbsd on it just to play around with. I would have liked to have a BSD system on my laptop, but since all the GM sites I have to do work from that only work well in IE, i had no choice but to put vista back on it...though i am looking into dual booting it |
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I am now reading the Absolute FreeBSD book by M. Lucas; damn this FreeBSD is an interesting OS! |
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FreeBSD runs my fileserver for Videos/Music. I have a xp thinkpad hooked to the TV which runs XBMC and has the video/music server mounted as drives V: and M: respectively, and I have uTorrent on another computer which uses an RSS feed to automatically download new episodes of House/Fringe/King of the Hill to the same fileserver. It's a great setup, I can come home, turn on the tv, and use a remote control to watch new episodes without ever having to know that I'm really on a computer.
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Rendering, testing, (trying to port when I can get to it) virtualbox- yeah, still with the same roadblock.As a desktop and at times as a web development environment for my girlfriend.
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