From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 14 21:29:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13562 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.mail.ida.net (mail.ida.net [204.228.203.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA13549 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 04:29:18 GMT (envelope-from muck@ida.net) Received: from falcon.hinterlands.com (tc-if2-27.ida.net [208.141.171.84]) by dns.mail.ida.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA06333 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:22:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <353437D5.2781E494@ida.net> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:30:13 -0600 From: Mike X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What else goes with it (was Re: New name?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Das Devaraj wrote: > One quick anecdote - a buddy of mine, an NT admin, wanted to > desperately setup a Unix server at his work -- resume reads > better, he gets more money, now that he knows Unix etc). > My recommendation was to go with FreeBSD. Since the whole > show was happening at his office, could not really help him > more than that. In more than a month, he could not get his > system up and running. Too many things to read. > So, he wanted to put on his resume that he was a Unix sysadmin, but he didn't want to actually learn what it took to be one? How is it that you would suggest learning something? Osmosis? Reading has always worked well for me. A lot of powerful options in FreeBSD are enabled by changing a line in /etc/rc.conf from NO to YES. That's hard? Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message