From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 15 04:37:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22760 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:37:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.axess.com (root@mail.axess.com [204.19.206.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA22727 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ppawel@axess.com) Received: from axess.com (ppp-43.axess.com [204.19.207.43]) by mail.axess.com (8.8.5/8.7.2) with ESMTP id HAA01176; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 07:40:31 -0400 Message-ID: <358506A4.5BBA7108@axess.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 07:33:56 -0400 From: Peter Pawelek Reply-To: ppawel@axess.com Organization: McGill University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Stevan S." CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? References: <199806150428.XAA26203@zoom.bga.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stevan S. wrote: > > This might sound funny but I really don't have a use for FreeBSD yet. This > is my first time installing an OS that I'm not familiar with, but with > independent learning I hope to gain valuable experience of the unix world. > To get a peek of what system administors encounter on a day to day basis. Well, if you don't know programming, FreeBSD (like Linux) is a perfect development environment. You have all the tools to write great C/C++ programs (or just about any other language you can think of), and the best part is that if you were to buy all of the equivalent tools under Win95 it could cost you thousands of dollars! There, how's that for a suggestion? ;) Peter Pawelek (ppawel@axess.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message