[by sven @ Thu Aug 15 2:46 CEST 2002]
Somewhere in November 2000 I decided to build a pc of serveral
budget components taken from some old pc's that could act as an
internet gateway for my small home network. I definitely wanted to
run an Unix-like operating system on this gateway pc. After working
some time with Linux Slackware on my desktop I discovered FreeBSD
(a free operating system derived from BSD unix) and decided to
install it on the gateway pc so I could learn FreeBSD. In that time
I was still stucked with a 56K telephone modem, but in May 2001
eventually broadband internet reached my area and from that time on
my gateway pc was 24 hours a day online. My ISP let me chose a
hostname so I named it freegw, free because of
FreeBSD and gw because it's primary function is to act as my
internet gateway. The suffix xs4all.nl is the domain
from my ISP.
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