Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:06:37 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Brett G. Castleberry" <bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> Cc: dan.langille@dvl-software.com, Herbert M Pollard <hpollard@jps.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbies First Aid Kit Message-ID: <19990614190637.B79325@mad> In-Reply-To: <001f01beb62f$bea8bc40$f923c992@s1o3q0>; from Brett G. Castleberry on Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 02:32:55AM -0400 References: <199906131957.OAA24852@metis.host4u.net> <001f01beb62f$bea8bc40$f923c992@s1o3q0>
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On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 02:32:55AM -0400, Brett G. Castleberry wrote: > > all little eager Linux puppies sharing discoveries with each other. I am a Interesting analogy. :) > With FreeBSD, I feel like I'm talking to professors. If I ask a > professor about something, she (or he) will want to know whether I have done > the reading first. If not, she's got no time for me. I bought a used 486 Well, fwiw, I barely qualify as a 20-something (well, technically I don't, period), only just completed first year university, and am violently opposed to CS. I get listed under the "developer" section of the handbook, but it's never been clear why. ;-) Anyways, I'm trying to pull away a little from the stereotype of FreeBSD developers as cold impersonal objects: that's the only reason I left this Cc: to -newbies, still. We're just as warm and cuddly as any newbie, really! (I dare any newbie to try being warmer or cuddlier than me! Hehe). > useful, brief thing I could tell him was that Linux is a kind of Unix, and > that therefore not only the small Linux selection was pertinent to his > query, but also the much larger Unix section. He had never heard of Unix. Ya, I know... -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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