From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jul 1 12:41:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08703 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:41:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (root@Kirk.netunlimited.net [208.128.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08690 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brownicm@netunlimited.net) Received: from netunlimited.net (Saavik-28.netunlimited.net [208.128.132.168]) by Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA17848; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:40:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <359A911F.CD72681F@netunlimited.net> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 15:42:24 -0400 From: Chris Browning X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: newbie , tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm switching carrers at 42 from professional chef to programmer. Restaurants not very family-friendly. My wife does Novell/NT/Win programming/sysadmin and she said I was a smart fella, I oughta try it. Did the quickie two-year curriculum. Lots of Windows-Visual Basic and whatnot. COBOL fer cryin' out loud. C++, ouch- a real language for a change. IBM assembly language, which I liked. RPG on an AS/400--never, ever, ever as long as I live; I'll go back to cooking first. And one lonely little course in UNIX. I was hooked. Jeez, DOS with teeth. The instructor was this ancient retired AT&T guy who'd been doing it since the mid-70's. I've had one box or another running freebsd for a couple years, but no time. Taught myself Visual FoxPro for my senior project, which I just finished. I don't have to go back to work till this fall so I'm furiously doing all the UNIX and C I can. I'll do FoxPro if I absolutely have to but people in the business tell me that given the labor market in this area (North Carolina US), even a greenhorn like me can just about pick the shop I want. It most likely won't be a FreeBSD shop but it will be a UNIX shop. Even if it's Y2K to start. I'm never going back. UNIX is too cool. Anyone who wants to do that M$ API black-box .dll who-knows-what's-in-there stuff is welcome to it. No thanks. And I look forward to the day when I may be able to contribute to the FreeBSD project. I owe the folks who have brought it this far. Thanks. Pardon my soapbox. And, newbie that I am, if I ever send someone undesired personal email, I hope they will let me know how I screwed up and how to fix it so it never, ever happens again. Now I'm terrified. Chris Browning brownicm@netunlimited.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message