From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 16:52:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bne004m.webcentral.com.au (bne004m.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBFBF37BE13 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:52:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 32435 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2000 00:52:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO timberwolf) (203.147.162.39) by bne004m.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 17 Mar 2000 00:52:14 -0000 Message-ID: <003c01bf8fab$d53a2380$27a293cb@timberwolf> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "Ben Smithurst" Cc: References: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu> <20000316220037.C10813@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Wow, it has been a while Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:57:46 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org *snip* > > 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. > :-) Heh...what interested my in FreeBSD was that userfriendly strip with the daemon in it. I had tried to install read hat earlier, but It Just Plain Refused to. The world is weird in it's ways...I'm downloading the ISO image for 4.0 right now..It s taking me all week over my 56k, but who's counting? heh. > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D *snip* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message