From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 11 11:30: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pop01.globecomm.net (pop01.globecomm.net [206.253.129.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6484714F89 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 11:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from npratt@mail.com) Received: from mail.com (ppp198-75.ecom.net [207.138.198.75]) by pop01.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with ESMTP id OAA18246; Tue, 11 May 1999 14:29:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37387761.8D68D8A5@mail.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:30:57 -0700 From: Noah Pratt Organization: AlphaBit Computer Systems & Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Cugley Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do newbies do with FreeBSD? References: <3.0.5.32.19990511010646.007e3b90@mail.virgin.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey, hey, hey! This is a newbiews group! All this techno-jargon is going straight over my head. Seriously, could you clue in a moron? What's RADIANCE? What's a CV, and how do you pad it? (I'm assuming it's not a constant-velocity joint from a front-wheel drive car.) And what exactly does crunchy mean? Maybe you should have some milk along with your computers... -Dumb er, -Noah Michael Cugley wrote: > > Personally I just got it so I could run RADIANCE and remember my student > days when we had a SunOS/Solaris network with X :) Plus also to get > experience with setting up a Unix from scratch to pad my CV with. > > I keep meaning to move over from using Windows '95 (I dual-boot, with > FreeBSD having a 2Gig drive of its very own), but well, I got everything > working on Windows 95 before I found FreeBSD... > > When I'm rich (hah!) I'm gonna get myself a little FreeBSD network & admin > that for the experience, and also to play RPGs with. Get a crunchy machine > to act as server, and a slightly less crunchy machine to run Win 9x as a > games machine... > > -- > Mike Cugley, lunatic at large To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message