From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 20 6:47: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from spectre.honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.175.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A1537BAE5 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 06:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre.honk.org (mpoulin@spectre.honk.org [24.42.175.137]) by spectre.honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA17446; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:48:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:48:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin To: David Johnson Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view In-Reply-To: <39749BDA.8E6A214B@acuson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Johnson wrote: > > FreeBSD has never catered to the newbie crowd, and I doubt it ever will. > This is a Good Thing. I wholeheartedly disagree. My very first experience with Unix was to put the 2.2.5-Release boot disk into a spare 486 and start installing FreeBSD using FTP over a 28.8 modem. It was a long and steep learning curve, but if someone is determined to learn Unix, I could not recommend a better OS than FreeBSD. The resources are there, they are free, and they make a hell of a lot more sense than the $100/hr "support" that you get with NT. ("It doesn't work? Reinstall. That'll be $100 please.") M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message