Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:39:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: valery@no-log.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Val=E9ry?=) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testimonial - Thanks to FreeBSD Message-ID: <200409081339.i88DdcO25257@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <413E35CC.2050301@no-log.org> from "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Val=E9ry?=" at Sep 08, 2004 12:27:24 AM
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Hi, > > Hi, > > starting on mainframe in the middle 80's, > i met a dilemn in the later 90's : if you want a job, > you must run on Microsoft. > Well, i started a new learn of computing on this > OS, "un-learning" all about i knew on computing, > a very difficult task when you're coming from IBM... > All my friends repeated to me : > "you should work on Unix like system, you should .." > 2 month's ago, i would like to setup my own server, > at home, with web, ftp and mail services. > I want him robust, efficient, safe and so one. > i dreamed to get an old 3090 for 500$ !, but > there's no place at home for him :o) > Thus, i have started to install my first FreeBSD > (on a very special computer) ... 2 weeks later, > without any knowledge about Unix like systems, > my httpd, ftpd ran (very ?!) well. This mean that > your system is well designed and documented. > Monitoring access, it's incredible to see that BSD > is faster by 2 to 3 than other tested system. > and i discovered that computing is absolutely what > i learned on IBM .. > > Great thanks to the community, and your effort to > document FreeBSD, even in French (we are so bad with > others languages ..!), i hope to help the FreeBSD users > by writing some drivers and other things, Welcome to FreeBSD. It is a good community and a good system. Nothing is perfect, of course, but this community comes as close as it can and keeps on working. Enjoy, ////jerry > > K. Regards, take care, > > -- > Valery aka v/ > www.vslash.com - opened today. >
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