From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 11 23:55:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC3B1065671 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:55:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mx-out-03.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCBC8FC25 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:55:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-03.forthnet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2BNtfYM013538; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:41 +0200 Received: from MX-IN-05.forthnet.gr (mx-in-05.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.32]) by mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2BNtQ78009419; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:26 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl109-155.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.228.155]) by MX-IN-05.forthnet.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2BNtIXX014743; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:20 +0200 Authentication-Results: MX-IN-05.forthnet.gr smtp.mail=keramida@ceid.upatras.gr; spf=neutral Authentication-Results: MX-IN-05.forthnet.gr header.from=keramida@ceid.upatras.gr; sender-id=neutral Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2BNtItb003574; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m2BNtGhj003573; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Josh Paetzel Message-ID: <20080311235515.GA3498@kobe.laptop> References: <200803091438.m29EcEbr070464@lurza.secnetix.de> <7619cc20803100356j653c51b0o62a92ab1271ed0e2@mail.gmail.com> <200803100833.21940.josh@tcbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200803100833.21940.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: nejc@skoberne.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, SEan Strand Subject: Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:55:30 -0000 On 2008-03-10 08:33, Josh Paetzel 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 :)