From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 00:06:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA04720 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns.top.net (dns.top.net [204.214.28.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA04703 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:05:58 -0700 (PDT) From: weasniak@geocities.com Received: from fivebox.ml.org (p1-219.top.net [204.214.28.219]) by dns.top.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id CAA16382 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:05:54 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:01:43 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: A note to all responsible for FreeBSD and this list: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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." ---------------------------------- Daniel Gast weasniak@geocities.com / ggast@top.net