From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 16:09:43 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 93FF01065670 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:09:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686678FC2D for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:09:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.tcbug.org (mail.tcbug.org [208.42.70.163]) by cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B4681C8; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:09:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from build64.tcbug.org (unknown [208.42.70.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.tcbug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 617166DA02D; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:09:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:09:37 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200803100833.21940.josh@tcbug.org> <20080311235515.GA3498@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080311235515.GA3498@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2191021.EqKlsMQSKb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803121109.43786.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , SEan Strand , nejc@skoberne.net 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: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:09:43 -0000 --nextPart2191021.EqKlsMQSKb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 11 March 2008 06:55:16 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 :) > I was so green with unix when I started that the friend who shipped me the = cds=20 suggested I type in man man after I got the system installed. I was amazed= =20 by the documentation shipped with the system, and it was painfully inadeque= t=20 compared to today....I literally did a cd /bin ; ls ; and started reading t= he=20 man pages for stuff one at a time. I also read the FreeBSD handbook throug= h,=20 which in 1996 was a couple hours work...it's up to 900+ pages now. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart2191021.EqKlsMQSKb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBH2ABHJvkB8SevrssRAr86AJoDhjb4qlUHXbhKhLgPVz+t1U8L8QCeL0Ss rcq5n6+Q/ti7lUl1DnZFMVI= =AzRn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2191021.EqKlsMQSKb--