From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 29 11:56:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02887 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:56:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darkstar.psa.at (darkstar.psa.at [194.152.163.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02862 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:55:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from as@psa.at) Received: from unet2-51.univie.ac.at ([131.130.232.51] helo=entropy.quake.at) by darkstar.psa.at with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 106K0k-0002eb-00 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:55:27 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by entropy.quake.at with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 1069Gt-000378-00 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:27:23 +0100 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:27:23 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Sanda X-Sender: root@darkstar.vmx To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: First year of FreeBSD... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [NOTE: this article has nothing technical, but since I assume most of the developers are reading here, I'am posting this here.] Tomorrow, I will "celebrate" my 1-year anniversary with FreeBSD. When I started with fbsd, I wasn't exactly an Unix newbie. In fact, I have been using Linux and other Unices on non-x86 platforms for years before. I started with a stable -RELEASE (like every newbie should) and since this day, I have installed about 20 boxes (sure, not very much) with fbsd. About half a year ago, I started to follow -current on my home box. Some of them were running linux before, some of them are completely fresh systems. Most of those boxes are acting as typical Intra/Internet servers, performing www, ftp, mail, news, smb and various other services. None of those boxes *ever* crashed or had to be taken down due to an OS fault. None of them ever lost a single bit of data, because of an OS failure. Nuff said, imho... The reason for posting this here, is that I just want to say "thank you" to all the people involved in this wonderful project. They really deserve it and I can imagine that it is not always easy to be involved in such a big project. Beeing a software engineer (or developer) is not always an easy job (I have been involved in software development for years, just on another "level"). In my opinion, FreeBSD gets way to few attention, but - who knows - perhaps this is a better situation than beeing hyped all the time. -- # /AS/ http://privat.schlund.de/entropy/ # # According to rumours, MS finally decided to delay the release of the # # long-awaited Windows 2000 until the first quarter of 1901. -unknown # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message