From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 3 13:43:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B8337B405 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unixverse@mac.com) Received: from [63.197.41.50] by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0GED0067FG8US1@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 15:43:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 13:43:32 -0700 From: Jim Krenz Subject: Re: Where's BSD in this picture? In-reply-to: To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.1.3108 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org on 6/3/01 8:55 AM, Rich Morin at rdm@cfcl.com wrote: > Linux has more mindshare than the BSDs. This is not news. BSD is > starting to get more mindshare, partly as a result of its inclusion > in Mac OS X. This is news. Whether this will translate to any > adoptions of FreeBSD is, of course, an open question. Well, it has at least added one: me. I've been an Apple computer user since the early eighties, starting with an Apple IIe. When I got Mac OS X, I was very intrigued with its Unix core, and wanted to explore it. However, I was afraid that I might mess something up (and this being my main computer, I refrained). I came into possession of an antique Pentium machine that was sluggishly running Windows 95. After doing a bit of research, I erased the hard disk and figured out how to install FreeBSD 4.3 on it. Since this machine was next to useless otherwise, I figured that I had nothing to lose. In the past couple of days, I have slowly started learning about the system. I have now have Apache running on it. I have figured out how to use vi. Groups and Permissions are giving me some trouble (its a new concept for me), but I am starting to get them. Other than a telnet problem that has suddenly occurred, it has been pretty smooth sailing this last week and a half. I plan on figuring out Sendmail (so I can avoid the fidgety Pacbell servers) and want to learn a bit about MySQL and PHP. Maybe even poke around with DNS. If Mac OS X hadn't inspired me, that old Pentium would still be sitting in the corner, gathering dust. And FreeBSD would be another meaningless acronym. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message