From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 24 11:47:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A7937B479; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id OAA19379; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:47:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailexnet.scana.com(161.156.248.69) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma019309; Tue, 24 Oct 00 14:47:01 -0400 Received: by mailexnet.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <VRCHPTPT>; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:46:59 -0400 Message-ID: <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE760579464D@msg04.scana.com> From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com> To: "'freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Cc: "'Daryl Chance'" <dchance@valuedata.net>, "'FreeBSD Newbies'" <newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: My Experience With FreeBSD Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:46:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Great idea! I think newbies would find this very useful and interesting. I know I would have when I was looking at FreeBSD for the first time. Would be nice to have a full advocacy site, with tons of comparison data and users opinions as well 'experience' posts. ...Michael... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Daryl Chance > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:19 PM > To: FreeBSD Newbies; freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > cross posting to Advocacy (hope this is the right thing to do) > and I guess the thread can continue on there or stick in newbies... :) > > It seems lately we get about 1 or 2 of these every month or so, > has anyone thought about putting up a "success stories" link > on the freebsd.org site? Could post these emails in full > on the site and that way if someone happens upon it they > check it out and see "hmm, heres all these people that are > having problems installing linux, or don't know much about *nix > at all and are having little to no problems getting FreeBSD up > and running fully". > > Might draw a couple more people :). > > Thoughts? > > PS: If needed, I could do searches and find the success stories > in the archive and send them to whomever would want them to > post on the site. > -------------------------------------------------------- > | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | > | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | > | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | > -------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> > To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:33 PM > Subject: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message