From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 24 22:24:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C32237B479; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 0455611; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC76049A13; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:24:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman To: Daryl Chance Cc: FreeBSD Newbies , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <004501c00df7$d6c9b380$0200000a@mike> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Daemon News has an ongoing column called "Adventures in BSD" which publishes success stories of people using BSD. Please feel free to submit your articles to it. articles@daemonnews.org Chris Coleman Daemon News http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Daryl Chance wrote: > cross posting to Advocacy (hope this is the right thing to do) > and I guess the thread can continue on there or stick in newbies... :) > > It seems lately we get about 1 or 2 of these every month or so, > has anyone thought about putting up a "success stories" link > on the freebsd.org site? Could post these emails in full > on the site and that way if someone happens upon it they > check it out and see "hmm, heres all these people that are > having problems installing linux, or don't know much about *nix > at all and are having little to no problems getting FreeBSD up > and running fully". > > Might draw a couple more people :). > > Thoughts? > > PS: If needed, I could do searches and find the success stories > in the archive and send them to whomever would want them to > post on the site. > -------------------------------------------------------- > | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | > | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | > | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | > -------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:33 PM > Subject: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > > I am not sure if someone would be interested in reading this, but anyway, > > here is the story of me and FreeBSD. > > Two years ago I heard about Unix, Linux and other stuff. And I really got > > interested in it. So I tried to install couple of Linux Distribution. But > > none of them worked out for me. I tried different distributions, but hey I > > was not able to install it properly. I ran into problems with Hardware and > > some other stuff. > > But in March of 2000 I have heard about FreeBSD, It changed my whole > life. > > I Bought FreeBSD 3.4 CD set, and hey From very first installation of > > FreeBSD I succeeded. Two months later I learned how to compile kernel > > properly and other stuff. I got ADSL in May, ran into configuration > > problems, but here we go again, people from mailing lists of FreeBSD > > community were not aggressive and very helpful to me so I was able > configure > > everything I wanted. Now I am running my FreeBSD as a Gateway, and 4 > > computers are connected to it, sharing my ADSL connection. And as always > > continuing learning FreeBSD. :) > > I just want to say Thanks to whole friendly FreeBSD community. As far as > > you guys alive FreeBSD will be alive, and will move on ! > > > > Andrei Zaitsau. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message