From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 11:55:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CB216A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:55:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC9B43D46 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:54:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Incoded@MyRealbox.com) Received: from falcon incoded@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [206.103.59.143] $ on Novell NetWare; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:54:59 -0700 From: Robert To: Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:56:31 -0800 X-Account: Roberts Email X-Mailer: Express Plus Version 1.0.5.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20031224195459.CCC9B43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: I am a newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Incoded@MyRealbox.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:55:01 -0000 My name is Robert. I am 13 and I want to use a bsd distro because= my of best friend uses it and he says you can really get into it= deeper than any closed OS like Windows and its stability is= greater than any other OS in the world. He likes worshiping BSD= and wrote this cool program that helps my Dad at home so he can= work but stay home with my brother who is sick very sick with= cancer. Well I am in high school and I would like to do= something with BSD for my high school project and impress the= whole school with how deep I can get into your OS by controlling= a robot or making an interface like the one my friend made for= programming a simple robot. None of my other freinds in school= even know about UNIX or BSD or any of tat enough to be what my= friend Ean calls himself -a purist. He says to love BSD alone= and seperate it from the rest of the pack you have to be a= purist. I am no sure totally what he means by OS purism? What= does it mean to be a purist and like BSD so much because of this= belief? Also I was checking out BSD on the web at the OS world= and I dont get something. I dont get why you guys call your OS= FREEBSD when OPENBSD is free as well. I just dont see why there= is two different OS's here within BSD. What is the difference.= Which one should I get into. I am not interested in starting a= huge company or anything like my Dad who needs one network over= seas and another in the US and another somewhere else for the= oversight people and some huge linkup to space for something he= does with the satellites. I just want to see what makes Unix so= special and powerful and not crash ever you know? Maybe get= religious about it. Maybe i want to use it for school to and= maybe later hack with it and be like Ean. Oh yea Ean doesn'y= work for my Dad anymore. He just goes around all by himself= working for whever he chooses. He is so cool companies try to= bribe him into employment all the time and he turns everyone= down so that he can work by himself in freedom. How cool is= that? But I lost contact. He comes around but not enough for= me to get help I need help now. Please? Will you guys write= back to me so I dont have to do something stupid and get= involved with an OS I dont want to and get lost in thte wrong= thingz?............Robert, Hillsboro OR USA