Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:01:43 -0500 (CDT) From: weasniak@geocities.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: A note to all responsible for FreeBSD and this list: Message-ID: <XFMail.970927003346.weasniak@geocities.com>
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Hello!
I thought that I would stop for a moment and thank everyone responsible for
making FreeBSD a useable and useful operating system. I started with a brand new
hard drive, boot.flp and essentially no Unix experience in May. Since that
point, I have only once fatally disabled my system, and someone from this list
was kind enough to get me a generic Kernel again for re-installation. The only
times (aside from hardware failure) that my system has needed a reboot have come
from what I suspect are incorrect settings on my part, plus a good measure of
operator error.
Today I was successful in making my FreeBSD system a gateway to my ISP for the
rest of the family's Mac. Yesterday I had virtually no knowledge of what I would
need to do to achieve this, but the informative "man" pages and this list have
given me enough information that I was able to do it. Next step: automating it
on bootup.
I could go on and on about how good "pkg_add" is and the /sbin/sysconfig util,
the linux emulator, the www.freebsd.org file area, the ports and packages, and
hundreds of other things that I am likely taking for granted, since I am not
experienced enough in Unix to know that they are not just part of unix.
Why I posted this in questions: Because I know how depressing it can be to see:
"My computer has never worked right since I installed FreeBSD" -> No, it never
worked right _before_ FreeBSD, you are just so deceived that you don't
know/can't tell.
"The installer sucks" -> The only reason it failed for me the first time was
because I didn't disable call waiting before connecting to my ISP. I
can't blame that on an installer.
Tell me where there is a better one! (And if you say any MS-Windows
installer, I will be more than happy to tell you how many times I have
re-installed MSWin on _ONE_ system, due to it's stupidity)
"I bought this CD and it doesn't work and I am mad and I want my money back and
you are stupid and I can't figure out what "F1 dos" means and it always says
it now .... " -> Everything works just fine, but unlike MS-Win, running _any_
Unix system, FreeBSD, Linux, or otherwise requires some intellegence
and even a small shred of thought. If you can't cover that, that is
your problem, not mine, `questions@freebsd.org's, or Walnut Creek's.
Anyhow, to all that make FreeBSD great and all those who ask _useful_ questions,
providing knowledge to the Mail Archives: "Thank you."
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Daniel Gast
weasniak@geocities.com / ggast@top.net
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