From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 15:10:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B9E16A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8217743D53 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:10:48 -0500 Message-ID: <407870BA.5000908@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:10:02 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040406 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micheal Peters References: <20040410030738.CD39543D3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040410030738.CD39543D3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Apr 2004 22:10:48.0703 (UTC) FILETIME=[ADCA28F0:01C41F48] cc: FreeBSD Newbies Mail List Subject: Re: The new user experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:10:06 -0000 Micheal Peters wrote: >>From Kevin Kinsey 3:58 PM EDT Friday 9 April 2004 > >>The waters are made somewhat murkier by the list charter, which more/less >>states that technical questions about FreeBSD aren't to be posted here. > > > >But, you can talk about the OS and your experiences with it, etc. And about >problems in general terms, books on the subject, web sites, tutorials you've >run across (or written) etc. > >Well if we can talk about our experiences I'll give the run down of the past >2 weeks :-) > >/******** > >NOTE: I fully intend to be long winded with this one and include a bit of >history too, if you don't really care about what a total n00b sees, stop >reading, delete this message (and any subsequent messages) and go on with >your normal life. Otherwise sit back, and enjoy :-) > I liked your story, too. Sounda kinda familiar to all of us newbies, no matter how long it's been, as someone was just saying. There was a very recent thread on freebsd-advocacy called "BSD Success Stories." I actually submitted one, but dunno if it'll be used. I spent a moment doing some more cleaning on it today; looking better, but *please* don't run it through a validator, *blush* ... http://www.daleco.biz/FBSDstory.html Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.