From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 24 10:33:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pfa0frpk001.panasonicfa.com (unknown [38.248.119.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08FAC37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by exchange.panasonicfa.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:33:20 -0500 Message-ID: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CC5@exchange.panasonicfa.com> From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: My Experience With FreeBSD Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:33:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am not sure if someone would be interested in reading this, but anyway, here is the story of me and FreeBSD. Two years ago I heard about Unix, Linux and other stuff. And I really got interested in it. So I tried to install couple of Linux Distribution. But none of them worked out for me. I tried different distributions, but hey I was not able to install it properly. I ran into problems with Hardware and some other stuff. But in March of 2000 I have heard about FreeBSD, It changed my whole life. I Bought FreeBSD 3.4 CD set, and hey From very first installation of FreeBSD I succeeded. Two months later I learned how to compile kernel properly and other stuff. I got ADSL in May, ran into configuration problems, but here we go again, people from mailing lists of FreeBSD community were not aggressive and very helpful to me so I was able configure everything I wanted. Now I am running my FreeBSD as a Gateway, and 4 computers are connected to it, sharing my ADSL connection. And as always continuing learning FreeBSD. :) I just want to say Thanks to whole friendly FreeBSD community. As far as you guys alive FreeBSD will be alive, and will move on ! Andrei Zaitsau. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message