From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 12:35:53 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 20D6616A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from nalle.netsonic.fi (netsonic.fi [194.29.192.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10ED143D2D for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markus.kovero@grafikansi.fi) Received: from grafikansi.fi (office.grafikansi.fi [81.17.198.67]) by nalle.netsonic.fi (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBOKZVo15475; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:35:31 +0200 Message-ID: <3FEA14C9.4030705@grafikansi.fi> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:35:53 +0000 From: Markus Kovero User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031208 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Incoded@MyRealbox.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031224195459.CCC9B43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20031224195459.CCC9B43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: I am a newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 20:35:53 -0000 Are 13yrs old people in highschool? :-p Greets Markus Kovero Robert wrote: > >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 an= y closed OS like Windows and its stability is greater than any other OS i= n the world. He likes worshiping BSD and wrote this cool program that hel= ps my Dad at home so he can work but stay home with my brother who is sic= k 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 scho= ol 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 m= ean to be a purist and like BSD so much because of this belief? Also I wa= s 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 star= ting a huge company or anything like my Dad who needs one network over se= as and another in the US and another somewhere else for the oversight peo= ple and some huge linkup to space for something he does with the satellit= es. I just want to see what makes Unix so special and powerful and not cr= ash 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 do= esn'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 emp= loyment all the time and he turns everyone down so that he can work by hi= mself 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 guy= s 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" > =20 >