From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 18:58:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6ED1065675 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:58:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lreid@cs.okstate.edu) Received: from a.cs.okstate.edu (a.cs.okstate.edu [139.78.113.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4C28FC2B for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:58:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lreid@cs.okstate.edu) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a.cs.okstate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1380B155022; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:58:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <47E2B3BB.6050801@cs.okstate.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:58:03 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071211) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edward Capriolo References: <000001c88a5c$82d01b40$887051c0$@com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:58:07 -0000 Written by Edward Capriolo on 03/20/08 13:56>> > For a kick, tell you brother that free BSD is no good. Install linux > on the server and start your own consulting company! > > I mean seriously! 14 replies to a thread about nothing. Let it die everyone! > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Donald Laniohan wrote: >> My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the >> information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my >> best friend, which I have. i remember building my first whitebox, it was a >> 386 with windows 3.1. I remember when I built my 486 and stole a copy of >> windows 95. I thought I was a savage. BSD, however, has showed me how >> juvenile I have been. If I do not master BSD my brother is going to keep me >> as a desktop support for his windows clients and I want to progress past >> this. So he's giving me a 1u, and said to put BSD on it and make it do >> something, im just so stuck in my windows comfort zone I can't think of what >> I would need a unix server to that I couldn't make windows do for me. I know >> this is trivial but if somebody could offer any suggestion or resource I, >> and my career, would greatly appreciate it >> >> >> >> Donald Laniohan >> >> MLAN Consulting >> >> San Diego, CA >> >> donald@mlansd.com >> >> >> For an even better kick, don't top-post and allow the adults to have a conversation.