From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 12:29: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-017.telepath.com [216.14.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA97A37B423 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 51911 invoked by uid 100); 18 Sep 2000 19:28:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14790.27860.568386.695631@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:28:20 -0500 (CDT) To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: From a newbie standpoint In-Reply-To: <114612941@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Weisgerber writes: > I'm under the impression that a novice installation does just this. Would you believe I've *never* done a Novice installation? By the time I did my first FreeBSD install, I'd been making a living as a Unix (almost all BSD-derived) sysadmin for 15 years. I *knew* what I wanted the system to look like when I did my first install. > Of course, you do realize that FreeBSD is a unix system which, once > it is installed, needs a skilled administrator? When I started > out with unix, I was told you needed ten years of experience to be > qualified for system administration. No matter whether you believe > in that estimate, systems have not become any simpler since. No, they've gotten much more complex. Oddly enough, they've also gotten more tolerant of less experienced sysadmins. A lot of the things that experience taught me I needed to do for every system FreeBSD does out of the box. Which is more than I can say for some recent commercial systems.