From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 14:58:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1632637BA53 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12ViJp-000JhX-00; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:00:37 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12ViJp-0009eW-00; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:00:37 +0000 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:00:37 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wow, it has been a while Message-ID: <20000316220037.C10813@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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