Date: 8 Mar 2005 14:01:09 -0500 From: james.cook@utoronto.ca To: "Chris" <bsd_wave@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hello Message-ID: <20050308190109.GA17351@skywolf.cdf.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050308130203.66705.qmail@web53505.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050308130203.66705.qmail@web53505.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:02:03AM -0800, Chris wrote: > Hi there > > As you might have guessed i'm a UNIX newbie, especially a FreeBSD newbie. I > recently started to learn FreeBSD UNIX and i must say that it is absolutely > unbelievable. Previously i learned Linux, the accessible solution for > non-Windows operating systems 'till one day when a friend of mine introduced > me to the UNIX universe and from that moment on nothing mattered more than > to learn and understand this collossal OS. Linux seems pretty UNIX-like to me. I used Gentoo before FreeBSD, and the transition wasn't any trouble at all. I guess a lot of Linux distributions are set up so that you don't have to see the UNIX-ness at all... but it's there. > I will also try other distributions of UNIX like OpenBSD, NetBSD, or Solaris > 10. Heh, whenever I get adventurous I start to hatch plans to install unusual operating systems, like the HURD or Plan 9... although I guess you could learn a fair amount by sampling the different unices. I learned a fair bit from the various Linux distros I tried over the years, and I've certainly learned something from my few months with FreeBSD. > I hope i was not boring you with my stories and i would like to stay in > touch with the UNIX community. I rarely see posts to this mailing list that aren't just questions about FreeBSD... and those posts are supposed to go on the -questions list. So thanks for a refreshing change :-) > Bye > Chris > > PS: i'd like to add that i'm from Romania, i'm 23, and i'm a student. Just > so you know. I'm a 19-year-old computer science and math student at the University of Toronto in Canada. Pleased to meet you. - James Cook james.cook@utoronto.ca
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