From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 05:07:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0124616A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:07:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B56243FDF for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:07:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hADD7qVX041031; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:07:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)hADD7q1e041028; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:07:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:07:51 +0100 (CET) From: Olaf Hoyer To: Lewis Thompson In-Reply-To: <20031112190135.GA89662@lewiz.org> Message-ID: <20031113140453.J40951@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <20031112190135.GA89662@lewiz.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Essay. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:07:52 -0000 On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task > of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be > pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is > interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. Hi! salon.com had a nice article in around late 2000 or early 2001, I already used it to found some parts of my speech at Linuxtag 2001 in Germany. http://dir.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html my (german) speech can be found here: http://hydra.linuxtag.uni-kl.de/~spindler/talks/Hoyer/ HTH Olaf Hoyer -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)