From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 20:48:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA18362 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 20:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from houseofduck.ml.org (geo-160.remote.dti.net [206.252.145.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA18354 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 20:48:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shaggy@houseofduck.ml.org) Received: from houseofduck.ml.org (geo-160.remote.dti.net [206.252.145.160]) by houseofduck.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA00702; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 23:49:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 23:49:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Fielden To: Jason Wells cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are Kudos ok on this list? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971024024019.007c3a60@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I interviewed for my job, I was told this office was running a peer-peer Windoze network. I groaned, and told my boss I was going to change that soon. He said we didn't have the money for another SPARC, and I said we didn't need one. I suggested FreeBSD. He said we needed a "proven" OS. I pointed him to cdrom.com, and yahoo as proof of proof, and he was still skeptical. Here it is, a few short months later, and a 16 meg laptop is providing proxy and DNS service for our sales office, as well as hosting a domain I own. A FreeBSD P133/32 is a faster file/backup server than the PPro 200/96 that was here with NT. It has to stay u$oft bescause of the hogginess of Exchange, which we now run, but the primary machines here are BSD, and they don't have downtime. I'm here at work at 11:40pm because our NT machine melted down for the second time in a week today. I too want to add my kudos with the other people who have done so recently, and express my gratitude for the people who put in the long hours to produce the OS, as well as the long hours to support the OS out of kindness or loyalty, not obligation. I've asked my share of questions that now make me wince to remember, but everyone either helped me through my ignorance, or merely ignored it. No one ever made me feel like an outsider, and everyone helped me get closer to my answer. Thank You -- Joshua Fielden, Systems Administrator, GeoCities. jfielden@geocities.com #include "Nothing is true until it makes you smile, nothing is understood until it makes you cry" -Robert Anton Wilson