From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 12:55:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from Astrovan.cstone.net (mailstop.cstone.net [205.197.102.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD54837B555 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from highway@cstone.net) Received: from cstone.net (net-093143.cho.cstone.net [209.145.93.143]) by Astrovan.cstone.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59789U13500L1350S0V35) with ESMTP id net for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:50:42 -0500 Message-ID: <38D29DF1.8C593E6D@cstone.net> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:04:50 -0500 From: Sean Michael Whipkey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wow, it has been a while References: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu> <20000317154125.A86459@freebie.brann.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In my case, it was one of the local FreeBSD fanatics that got me into it. I got promoted to the engineering department of the ISP I was working tech support at. The ISP itself was running mostly FreeBSD machines, and my mentor, Adrian, taught me why it was so good. I quickly became yet another advocate, despite the pro-Linux people in my apartment and as my friends - as one crusty old AIX admin/Linux proponent likes to always say about the *BSDs - "I'll rent you a ps to replace your g-------d broken ps." :-) SeanMike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message