Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:09:37 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, SEan Strand <seanjstrand@gmail.com>, nejc@skoberne.net Subject: Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD Message-ID: <200803121109.43786.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20080311235515.GA3498@kobe.laptop> References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0802291321140.4227@tx.reedmedia.net> <200803100833.21940.josh@tcbug.org> <20080311235515.GA3498@kobe.laptop>
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--nextPart2191021.EqKlsMQSKb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 11 March 2008 06:55:16 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2008-03-10 08:33, Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > > I still have the FreeBSD 2.1.5 set from Walnut Creek that a friend had > > shipped to me after I expressed an interest to "learn unix" > > > > I sometimes wonder how different things would be if he'd been a linux > > fan and shipped me some slackware cds or something. > > "There's no escape from Fate", at least not for some of us. My own UNIX > road starts as a user of SunOS 4.X but the first UNIX-like system I > installed on my own computer was Linux. > > A friend let me install Linux from his red InfoMagic CD-ROM set, and I > still have my own blue Infomagic CD-ROM set, with Slackware 3.1 and the > Redhat Linux "Picasso" release (with Linux kernel 1.2.13). > > After a few years of Linux fun, I borrowed an OpenBSD CD-ROM, managed to > trash my partition table (because I didn't know enough about disklabels) > and eventually hit upon the FreeBSD Handbook. The Handbook seemed very > detailed, easy to read, and I realized I was actually _learning_ stuff > by just reading it -- without having even installed FreeBSD yet. > > That was it, for me :) > I was so green with unix when I started that the friend who shipped me the = cds=20 suggested I type in man man after I got the system installed. I was amazed= =20 by the documentation shipped with the system, and it was painfully inadeque= t=20 compared to today....I literally did a cd /bin ; ls ; and started reading t= he=20 man pages for stuff one at a time. I also read the FreeBSD handbook throug= h,=20 which in 1996 was a couple hours work...it's up to 900+ pages now. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart2191021.EqKlsMQSKb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBH2ABHJvkB8SevrssRAr86AJoDhjb4qlUHXbhKhLgPVz+t1U8L8QCeL0Ss rcq5n6+Q/ti7lUl1DnZFMVI= =AzRn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2191021.EqKlsMQSKb--
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