From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 12:57:32 2005 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 3050416A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:57:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from t-x.dignus.nl (t-x.dignus.nl [83.219.88.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9697443D45 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:57:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.dignus.nl [127.0.0.1]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 7FDDF2841F; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:57:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (cjr-home [62.251.72.148]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 0ACE528419; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:57:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (localhost.kozy-kabin.nl [127.0.0.1]) by kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4340C6252; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:57:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (colin@localhost)j0GCvHNV065923; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:57:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:57:15 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" To: Dave Horsfall In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050116133237.G802@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <000601c4fb96$79575810$640aa8c0@XPH01> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by RemSPAMd at ph230.plushosting.nl cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 Install 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: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:57:32 -0000 On Jan 16 at 23:14, Dave Horsfall launched this into the bitstream: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: > >> [RHETORICAL_MODE=ON] >> Where, I wonder, are all these folks suddenly coming from? >> [SUPREME_IRONY_MODE=ON] >> Well anyway, it's nice to know I'm a grizzled old graybeard unix admin. > > I'll bet my beard's greyer than yours! Edition 5, on a PDP-11/40, in > 1975. Done, you win. Unconditionally! I've only been *nix'ing (?) for a few years. I first *saw* a Unix server in 1994..and that was a BSD oddly enough. IIRC I *think* it was BSDI. I thought it was some form of black magic. I had no contact whatsoever from an admin point of view for a number of years, except as a shell account user which was handy enough to learn the basics (and become addicted to shell). Then around '99 I started periodically installing some Linux or BSD version on a Frankenputer occasionally to see what was what. I got serious about BSD in 2003 when a colleague installed it on a shared datacenter based server. Then recently I installed 5.3 at home and that's it...I'm hooked...there's no going back now :) Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One 1:57PM up 4 days, 2:45, 8 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00