From owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Fri Oct 28 23:33:46 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8E9C25814 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 23:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mylan.connolly@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x22e.google.com (mail-vk0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F203A98 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 23:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mylan.connolly@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id d65so38504434vkg.0 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:33:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=jhQzLpNHmp9V+XSiPcWn0ZINrn3n4Wysw5yygueNyPA=; b=vDubE4fDKqvXJbXMxdAkyUw169kahO93tq3/Ts9nVXoMa0OSwWcUt8bK2tOI0Wf3Nt 9qR8UzRWDuOM2NI5WSAnOgoYyUoCBD6LInrHHSLgTffvmxmF2pbFfL03bDXfUmuufzi6 gYGJz0978ZZu4YRN95WHrFO8mO2fJpctnYdH7wAiGSbLR7ZBkyiQlZdaVMWTaBarCuMx TxWZkFaWJP92MwP0djIrVYEnvdDvE3h5mANYjxdssDJGswLPYyu6GXVkxdcxEAGWfwuC 1HtjWt7WGmSpZqCh2IumWn44QTMK1Clxt3QCktClMejqeBhjzZSCVRY9b4/SvreIA6UB N8yw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=jhQzLpNHmp9V+XSiPcWn0ZINrn3n4Wysw5yygueNyPA=; b=PKgQzZZ9tVC8d0KXVmtBipZXIwLc5j/Z4+n9IdP30V9+NnQNmtldSUn3JzB1zXXnmJ 07M97aHY+3RVyTGpaBMoF3ny1lQw/RS+ntFt53olBB74ELvMlwM8R785mbTvfnsSXeHg RxM4s/pm/VzaEWEFpRK74A2egcDRsIGk+Rm1Xi49D2pjEOVR/UNflP0lZYd3VdILyhat pzQEYKWswhPC3YjAZOJqCYCEeVrBwlLV4XxJFSoe9n2TgOj8Wxo2Uo6CV0V8cIULTrXQ Kvodab5jMqlzbq5srNTzxpTz2zpLNjaWD1qilsGpaIj2RJJqYTnzNtp09F5NohZwZcla KxkQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvf3ucrU4aUY38rg1dsCQBlpEPhNjcf/egOW5032+DUSdt4SgWVh0YmGJeVKnjIJQ07joHch+o3nHXun8A== X-Received: by 10.31.94.131 with SMTP id s125mr14307846vkb.167.1477697625210; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:33:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.31.130.13 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:33:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.31.130.13 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:33:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Mylan Connolly Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:33:44 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Greetings! To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 23:33:46 -0000 I have been a long time Linux user, and over the past year started working on a new project that fortunately allows us to rethink a lot of what we do internally. Up until this point my only real experience with any BSD is a pfSense firewall and we've had great luck with it. I decided to give FreeBSD a shot and develop on it, as well as look into how viable it is for us in hosting some web services that we use internally. Still have a lot to learn and test out but my hats off to the folks working on the distribution, it's been a real pleasure so far! I was always scared off at thinking the learning curve would be too steep for it to be worth it, but so far that's definitely not been the case. Just wanted to introduce myself and spread some love! Mylan Connolly