From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 24 10:37:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from stud.alakhawayn.ma (stud.alakhawayn.ma [193.194.63.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE9637B4CF for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (961BE653994@localhost) by stud.alakhawayn.ma (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id RAA28967; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:32:15 GMT Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:32:15 +0000 (GMT) From: ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma> To: "Zaitsau, Andrei" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CC5@exchange.panasonicfa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org it is very interesting story. keep up the good faith in FreeBSD!!! On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Zaitsau, Andrei wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message