Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: nejc@skoberne.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, SEan Strand <seanjstrand@gmail.com> Subject: Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080311235515.GA3498@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <200803100833.21940.josh@tcbug.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0802291321140.4227@tx.reedmedia.net> <200803091438.m29EcEbr070464@lurza.secnetix.de> <7619cc20803100356j653c51b0o62a92ab1271ed0e2@mail.gmail.com> <200803100833.21940.josh@tcbug.org>
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On 2008-03-10 08:33, Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > I still have the FreeBSD 2.1.5 set from Walnut Creek that a friend had > shipped to me after I expressed an interest to "learn unix" > > I sometimes wonder how different things would be if he'd been a linux > fan and shipped me some slackware cds or something. "There's no escape from Fate", at least not for some of us. My own UNIX road starts as a user of SunOS 4.X but the first UNIX-like system I installed on my own computer was Linux. A friend let me install Linux from his red InfoMagic CD-ROM set, and I still have my own blue Infomagic CD-ROM set, with Slackware 3.1 and the Redhat Linux "Picasso" release (with Linux kernel 1.2.13). After a few years of Linux fun, I borrowed an OpenBSD CD-ROM, managed to trash my partition table (because I didn't know enough about disklabels) and eventually hit upon the FreeBSD Handbook. The Handbook seemed very detailed, easy to read, and I realized I was actually _learning_ stuff by just reading it -- without having even installed FreeBSD yet. That was it, for me :)
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