Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:48:30 PDT From: "Neutrino Phantom" <neutrino2000@hotmail.com> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What tipped the balance Message-ID: <19980728184830.28204.qmail@hotmail.com>
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At 11:01 AM 7/27/98 -0700, Ludwig Pummer wrote his story Here's the perfect chance for me to thank the guy who got me into FreeBSD :) Thanks, Ludwig! A little over a year ago, I got fed up with continually complaining about Microsoft products but never using anything else. I didn't know much of anything about Unix, but I'd heard of Linux and decided to try it out. Not knowing the first thing about attacking the problem, I asked Ludwig (who knew a lot more, and still does) to help me out. He recommended that, instead of Linux, I should try FreeBSD. I must admit, it was easier to get FreeBSD installed than Linux. I never installed Linux because I couldn't figure out how, but FreeBSD's centralized system really made things easy (after Ludwig told me which directories to download - that wasn't as obvious for a Microsoft-world person). Since I've been incredibly busy, as always, I haven't really progressed that much in my knowledge of FreeBSD, and am most definitely still a newbie. (Another contributing cause was that I never got X working on my system - XFree86 didn't support my video chipset on either my desktop or my laptop.) However, what I did learn recently became very useful when I got a summer job a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and they stuck me in front of a Sun. Everybody was overjoyed when they heard that I could actually get around in Unix, and wasn't just a point-and-click Win95 child. I still use Windows NT for almost everything, but I use the FreeBSD environment exclusively when writing little programs (I'm just learning C++). My goal is to have the latest FreeBSD and XFree86 (hopefully supporting my hardware by then...) set up on my laptop by the time I go off to college in a year, and then ease myself out of the Microsoft world. -David Syphers (more proof that some people new to FreeBSD are _entirely_ new to Unix as well) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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