Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:14:55 -0600 From: "John Amdor III" <johnmxl@netins.net> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What tipped the balance Message-ID: <199807290316.WAA19705@ins2.netins.net> In-Reply-To: <19980728184830.28204.qmail@hotmail.com>
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I thought I'd chime in with my $0.02... I started playing with PCs when 386SX-16s were mainstream machines, 9600 baud modems were fast, and DOS 4.1 was brand-new. I had a chance to play with SCO at that time, but didn't. DOS was challenging enough, and I was trying to figure out what was so special about Windows 3.1. If I only knew then what I know now... I, like many others I've read about here, was looking at Linux as a solution to a problem (connecting a LAN to a dial-up ISP), but was turned toward FreeBSD by a trusted friend, Mike Stickney, who had just set up an internet server at his house (www.nocal.com) using FreeBSD and Apache. The project went away before I was able to do anything, but when the new budget year starts, I'm ready. At present I don't have FreeBSD running on anything...I'm scrounging hardware to build another box so that the family can continue to use the Wintel machine as-is. But I bought The Book, and the set of 2.2.5 CDs, and I'm learning. I can do quite a bit on telnet to my friend's server, at least at the user level. I never did attempt to install Linux...I've got the Red Hat CD and the "Linux for Dummies" book, but the same limitations that prevent installing FreeBSD preclude Linux too, so I can't compare the two yet... The more I see of the current commercial operating systems and the current free *nix systems, I think my educational efforts will be worthwhile. -- John Amdor III email: johnmxl@netins.net home: http://www.netins.net/showcase/johnmxl/ ICQ 3396049 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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