Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:17:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wow, it has been a while Message-ID: <20000317131754.C10194@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu>; from howardjp@wam.umd.edu on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:30:54PM -0500 References: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:30:54PM -0500, James Howard wrote: > > So what I am saying here is thank you for making such a kick ass > system and I'd love to hear about other's first expereinces with > FreeBSD, or BSD if you are older. In fact, I was born in December of > 1979, if someone has a first BSD story that predates that, I would be > endlessly amused. Despite the fact that my real age (I was born in 1976) has no relation whatsoever with my, err, 'FreeBSD age', I'll drop a note, thank you :) I'd been using Linux since early Slackware versions. Having been used to the 'Slackware way' of things, the later distributions of Linux (call me RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, or what-have-you) were not much appealing to my taste. On the other hand I knew that Slackware was influenced by BSD in some things [ok, ok, runlevels are no-BSD-thing, I know]. It was OpenBSD that I initially tried to install from a CDROM borrowed from one of my friends. I tried setting the thing up on a spare partition of my hard disk, in September 1999 (yup, less than one year ago). Now, imagine my frustration when I managed to trash the partition table of my disk, when my last backup of my home PC was dated May 1999! Now, when one has a completely trashed and empty disk, one's got to do something about it. So I installed a minimal Slackware on a partition of my disk, dialed into my usual PPP connection, downloaded the installation disks of FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE, and well.. the rest is easy for you to guess, since now my disk has only BSD on it. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000317131754.C10194>