Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:30:54 -0500 From: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Wow, it has been a while Message-ID: <200003162031.PAA24296@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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I was just sitting here, thinking, wow, 4.0. I remember (like it was yesterday) the first time I installed FreeBSD. It was 2.2.2. It was so clean and smooth, unlike Linux, or Solaris, or OpenVMS. This was different. On a 486 with 16 megs of RAM, it was faster and more responsive than a dual P5/133 with 96 megs of RAM running Linux. This was different. It managed uptimes of 80 days, before I would do something dumb and crash the system (kill -9 -1 as root once:). That same Linux system wouldn't do 10 days if it had to. This was different. The 486 I used sat in a computer lab at Miami University. I had walked into the lab one day with a FreeBSD boot disk. I made a sign saying "Workstation Down" and hijacked a random PC, in the middle of the lab. It ran for 9 months before one of the schools employees found something amiss. They pulled the plug. But by then I was running FreeBSD at home. And on one production server. In fact, since that first install of 2.2.2, I have not installed any other OS, except for a simple install on a throw-away system. And even then, it never lasts more than a few hours, or long enough to see what they have changed in the past year. 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. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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