Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:21:29 -0400 From: Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN <Micheal.Peters@niagarafalls.af.mil> Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: This list. Message-ID: <527FE8CB31844C41AB3334125CE75E2B02D599A9@fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil>
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Well the how long question is a little gray.. I've picked it up a few times, only to have to put it down a day or 2 later. However, within the past 2 weeks, I've been able to get things up and running, and more importently, been able to stick with it. So I guess the best answer is about 2 weeks. For now FBSD is more for personal training on BSD/Unix. I hope eventually to make a web server out of it, as I dig more into Perl, Php, and that sort of thing. Though, I've always wanted to learn and program in C. Looks like there are plunty of opertunities to program things in this OS :) Why FBSD.... Don't know really. I was looking for something that was as close to unix as possible with having to pay $10k. I suppose I could have (should have, becouse of my lack of unix knowledge accourding to some folks) gone with one of the Linux's, but, well, besides the fact that there where, 26 billion different flavors of linux. It just didn't seem like the thing. Somewhere along the way I was told about this BSD thing. There where only a handfull of branches (Open, Free, Net...) And FreeBSD seemed to be the best choice for me. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [mailto:kdk@daleco.biz] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 4:01 PM To: Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN Cc: 'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: This list. Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN wrote: >Does this list get used at all? Am I the only Newbie to BSD? >_______________________________________________ > > a] Yes. b] LOL, I doubt it. But welcome anyhow!! ;-) I show 14 messages (including yours) since April 1st. It's certainly not high traffic, like freebsd-questions, but there's a post once in a while. The waters are made somewhat murkier by the list charter, which more/less states that technical questions about FreeBSD aren't to be posted here. But, you can talk about the OS and your experiences with it, etc. And about problems in general terms, books on the subject, web sites, tutorials you've run across (or written) etc. How long have you been using FBSD? And what are you using it for? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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