From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 24 11:28:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from c014.sfo.cp.net (c014-h001.c014.sfo.cp.net [209.228.12.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBDD137B4CF for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 13130 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2000 11:20:12 -0700 Received: from m12hRs4n205.midsouth.rr.com (HELO mike) (24.95.125.205) by smtp.valuedata.net (209.228.12.65) with SMTP; 24 Oct 2000 11:20:12 -0700 X-Sent: 24 Oct 2000 18:20:12 GMT Message-ID: <004501c00df7$d6c9b380$0200000a@mike> From: "Daryl Chance" To: "FreeBSD Newbies" , References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CC5@exchange.panasonicfa.com> Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:19:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG cross posting to Advocacy (hope this is the right thing to do) and I guess the thread can continue on there or stick in newbies... :) It seems lately we get about 1 or 2 of these every month or so, has anyone thought about putting up a "success stories" link on the freebsd.org site? Could post these emails in full on the site and that way if someone happens upon it they check it out and see "hmm, heres all these people that are having problems installing linux, or don't know much about *nix at all and are having little to no problems getting FreeBSD up and running fully". Might draw a couple more people :). Thoughts? PS: If needed, I could do searches and find the success stories in the archive and send them to whomever would want them to post on the site. -------------------------------------------------------- | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | -------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: My Experience With FreeBSD > I am not sure if someone would be interested in reading this, but anyway, > here is the story of me and FreeBSD. > Two years ago I heard about Unix, Linux and other stuff. And I really got > interested in it. So I tried to install couple of Linux Distribution. But > none of them worked out for me. I tried different distributions, but hey I > was not able to install it properly. I ran into problems with Hardware and > some other stuff. > But in March of 2000 I have heard about FreeBSD, It changed my whole life. > I Bought FreeBSD 3.4 CD set, and hey From very first installation of > FreeBSD I succeeded. Two months later I learned how to compile kernel > properly and other stuff. I got ADSL in May, ran into configuration > problems, but here we go again, people from mailing lists of FreeBSD > community were not aggressive and very helpful to me so I was able configure > everything I wanted. Now I am running my FreeBSD as a Gateway, and 4 > computers are connected to it, sharing my ADSL connection. And as always > continuing learning FreeBSD. :) > I just want to say Thanks to whole friendly FreeBSD community. As far as > you guys alive FreeBSD will be alive, and will move on ! > > Andrei Zaitsau. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message