Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:00:37 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wow, it has been a while Message-ID: <20000316220037.C10813@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu> References: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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James Howard wrote: > In fact, since that first install of 2.2.2, I have not installed any > other OS, except for a simple install on a throw-away system. And > even then, it never lasts more than a few hours, or long enough to see > what they have changed in the past year. aol. I've got two Linux distributions installed on one of my computers (Debian and RedHat), but, having used them both a bit, I really don't see what all the fuss over Linux is about. (That computer is booted into FreeBSD mostly of course.) > So what I am saying here is thank you for making such a kick ass > system and I'd love to hear about other's first expereinces with > FreeBSD, or BSD if you are older. I came across FreeBSD by chance really. IIRC I was downloading some big Quake-related thing (god knows what), and found a directory called "/packages/FreeBSD" on the ftp server while I was poking around waiting for the download to finish. I read a few README files, downloaded the bin.* files (which took a while over a 28.8k modem), and, well, that was that. I guess that's the only useful thing to come of me playing Quake. :-) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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