From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 12:41:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from doorman.brann.org (remote-brann-gw.nyc.dsl.access.net [166.84.145.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCBE37B815 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:41:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@brann.org) Received: from freebie.brann.org (freebie.brann.org [10.0.0.2]) by doorman.brann.org (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA24070; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:42:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (from john@localhost) by freebie.brann.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA86598; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:41:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:41:25 -0500 From: John Brann To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wow, it has been a while Message-ID: <20000317154125.A86459@freebie.brann.org> References: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu>; from howardjp@wam.umd.edu on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:30:54PM -0500 Organization: Not while I'm at home X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-20000105-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In my case it was Mr. Protocol's doing that I began my BSD using career. I'd just decided (in early '95) to jump into home UNIX(-like) use, and was looking at Slackware, when I read the 'Ask Mr. Protocol' column (it runs in 'Server/Workstation Expert') which talked about that exact subject. Mike O'Brien, who writes the column, made some convincing arguments about the FreeBSD project being more focused than the Linux efforts. My first experiments with LILO were enough to convince me that FreeBSD might be worth looking at. I still have the 2.0CD, which I could never use because I had put a new- fangled Adaptec 2940 in my shiny new Pentium 60 box. As a consequence, my first FreeBSD system was a 2.0.5-SNAP from sometime in March '95. The case, memory disk and SCSI controller from that machine are still in use in a firewall machine. I'm celebrating 5 years of continuous, more than satisfied, use of FreeBSD, while looking forward to the exciting possibilities of the new BSDI. I've been a professional software developer for more than 15 years and I can't think of a single other piece of software that I've used, in that time, that combines innovation, reliability and robustness in the way that FreeBSD has. Dammit, I'm not sure I can remember another piece of software I've used for five years straight without either throwing it out or wishing I could. John -- Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, finger john@doorman.brann.org for pgp public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message