From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 24 15: 8:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tznet.com (smtp.tznet.com [206.31.5.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96AB137B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darkangel.gothic.com ([205.216.111.110]) by smtp.tznet.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.52/64) id 2865700; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:08:15 -0500 Received: by darkangel.gothic.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0C5874E; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:15:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:15:53 -0500 From: Michael Urban To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001024171553.A332@tznet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from MSILVER@scana.com on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:46:59PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I happen to be working on just such a site.. There is nothing up yet, but the URL will be www.stationbsd.com. Anyone who wants to write a success story or a how-to article for newbies, I am currently open to submissions. Please note, I am primarily interested in promoting FreeBSD as a workstation/desktop OS on this site. There are plenty of sites that already sing the praises of FreeBSD as a server OS. So I am more interested in workstation/desktop articles. Please don't send server how to articles unless you think they are "cross-over" articles (email configuration for example). On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:46:59PM -0400, SILVER, MICHAEL A wrote: > 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" > > To: > > 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-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