Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:30:33 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001024143033.C12045@home.com> In-Reply-To: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CC5@exchange.panasonicfa.com>; from AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:33:19PM -0500 References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CC5@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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It is good to here stories like this. I am a FreeBSD newbie, and so far am very impressed. I cannot slam Linux though. It got me started with UNIX. Victor Cardona On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:33:19PM -0500, 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
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