From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Dec 19 10:51:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C53637B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:51:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD90543EB2 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H7D00M6ZR21KG@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:46:22 -0800 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-163.acuson.com [157.226.46.163]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R9VSD9; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:48:20 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:51:44 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: Err.. to be honest, I'm not sure what to put here. In-reply-to: <3E01DC28.905@fantoma.net> To: Mark Gladman , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <200212191051.44198.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3E01DC28.905@fantoma.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday 19 December 2002 06:48 am, Mark Gladman wrote: > And am pretty much wondering.. well.. have I missed anything? :) > It seems like I can do pretty much anything. Welcome to the wonderful world of Unix! Yes, you can do pretty much anything. What makes it work is the Unix philosophy that FreeBSD in its wisdom has decided to keep. Some stuff is going to be hard, some extremely hard. But you can do just about everything with it. First, the user is King, not the vendor. Stuff is not hidden away from you. This means that you are expected to read the fine manual and other documentation. It's also what makes it daunting for the new user. Second, FreeBSD/Unix is composed of many small parts that can fit together however you want them. It's absurd to think that a vendor can foresee all possible uses of their software, so the Unix philosophy is to not pretend that it's possible. Instead, Unix has software that flexible enough to cover even the unforeseen uses. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message