Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:56:31 -0800 From: Robert <Incoded@MyRealbox.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: I am a newbie Message-ID: <20031224195459.CCC9B43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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My name is Robert. I am 13 and I want to use a bsd distro because= my of best friend uses it and he says you can really get into it= deeper than any closed OS like Windows and its stability is= greater than any other OS in the world. He likes worshiping BSD= and wrote this cool program that helps my Dad at home so he can= work but stay home with my brother who is sick very sick with= cancer. Well I am in high school and I would like to do= something with BSD for my high school project and impress the= whole school with how deep I can get into your OS by controlling= a robot or making an interface like the one my friend made for= programming a simple robot. None of my other freinds in school= even know about UNIX or BSD or any of tat enough to be what my= friend Ean calls himself -a purist. He says to love BSD alone= and seperate it from the rest of the pack you have to be a= purist. I am no sure totally what he means by OS purism? What= does it mean to be a purist and like BSD so much because of this= belief? Also I was checking out BSD on the web at the OS world= and I dont get something. I dont get why you guys call your OS= FREEBSD when OPENBSD is free as well. I just dont see why there= is two different OS's here within BSD. What is the difference.= Which one should I get into. I am not interested in starting a= huge company or anything like my Dad who needs one network over= seas and another in the US and another somewhere else for the= oversight people and some huge linkup to space for something he= does with the satellites. I just want to see what makes Unix so= special and powerful and not crash ever you know? Maybe get= religious about it. Maybe i want to use it for school to and= maybe later hack with it and be like Ean. Oh yea Ean doesn'y= work for my Dad anymore. He just goes around all by himself= working for whever he chooses. He is so cool companies try to= bribe him into employment all the time and he turns everyone= down so that he can work by himself in freedom. How cool is= that? But I lost contact. He comes around but not enough for= me to get help I need help now. Please? Will you guys write= back to me so I dont have to do something stupid and get= involved with an OS I dont want to and get lost in thte wrong= thingz?............Robert, Hillsboro OR USA
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