From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 26 19:25: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from beast.knf.beldin.net (beast.au.eggdrop.net [203.38.198.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9147E15D2E for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from west@beast.knf.beldin.net) Received: (from west@localhost) by beast.knf.beldin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00291 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:29:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from west) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:29:21 +0930 (CST) Reply-To: cjag@knfpub.com From: Christine Jaeger To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet another newbie Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Dan, Not only are there lots of aussies on this list (I'm in Adelaide) but my sister lives in Warwick too. Her son is mad keen on getting into unix in a big way, so please keep us informed if you get your user group going! Cheers, Chris :) P.S. Of course this said nephew will have no choice but to run fbsd or else Aunty will stop sending nice CD's full of goodies And yes, we also have 386's merrily running fbsd! On 19-Aug-99 Don Hansford wrote: > G'day Sue, > Good to see another Aussie is on this list! > Me and Pat (the mate with the M$-free zone) are drumming up business for a > local Un*x User Group, and it's amazing who is showing interest. I just > found out today that our ISP (halenet) is considering running a BSD Mirror > Site. What a spinout!!!! One of the local schools has a Linux server, and > the TAFE are considering running a Un*x night course. I feel like I've > stepped out of the wilderness, and into /usr/local/heaven! > BTW, is your 386 a DX40? (that's the techie coming out in me) > Regards > Igor > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sue Blake > To: mlduke > Cc: Don Hansford ; > Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 9:41 AM > Subject: Re: Yet another newbie > > >> On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 03:06:16PM -0600, mlduke wrote: >> > > sure. Currently scavenging bits from work to build a 300 or better > box. >> > >> > Welcome to the world of FBSD. As it happens, I just put a 350 box > together >> > with advice from my friend and Unix Mentor, the AIX Systems Engineer. >> >> Ha! You guys with your puny little systems... only 300, 350... >> They must be at least ten years old. Mine's a whole 386 with a whopping >> 8 megs of RAM! :-) And FreeBSD loves them all the same. >> >> :,) >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> -*Sue*- >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message