Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 00:11:20 -0500 From: "Stevan S." <sjsan@bga.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What tipped the balance Message-ID: <Version.32.19980727001037.00ddd1d0@mailserv.bga.com>
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Hey All, As I was reading this, I started to think about the first time I was introduced to personal computer. I remember the machine will. A 386 with DOS 5.0. Then I worked my way up the latter from Windows 3.* to Windows 95. During my last days of using Windows 3.* some users were trying to get me to install Linux when I mentioned about going with Windows 95. I had no idea what Linux was so only with that I went with Windows 95. Then I was introduced to Solairs(sp) and I was given a free account to play with. Over time I realized this could be a powerful OS. A year would pass and I installed Windows NT which is my current OS. As I familiarized myself with different OS's I started to notice FreeBSD everywhere (web server, irc servers, ftp servers, etc) and I was like "what's the big deal". So to get an idea of what was going on I installed FreeBSD. With only the basic knowledge of Unix I took on FreeBSD as a summer project (go figure ;-) ). It is 2 month later and my 6-7 installs I find myself understanding this OS. I'm not close to converting to a Unix environment but it gives me an insight of the Unix world and this knowledge will come in handy some day. My 2 cents, :) Stevan At 10:17 AM 7/27/98 +1000, you wrote: >Someone asked me in private mail why I chose FreeBSD instead of another >OS, and I thought it might make an interesting topic. This is not about >the benefits of FreeBSD versus something else, it's about what affected >us personally when we made the decision. > >The main issue for me was that I wanted to learn unix, learn it right, >and learn it once. I'm not a student or a career computer person so I >only have the time to learn it once. FreeBSD looked to be more of a >"real unix" and seemed to be used almost exclusively (then) by serious >people with a lot of experience, but people I didn't know, whereas I >knew a lot of home users and students who were using Linux for fun and >hacking, but not professionally. One friend almost talked me into >Coherent but sending a small amount of money overseas was a major >hassle. Eventually I tried Linux and FreeBSD. > >When the Linux users I knew started pushing hard for me to use Linux no >matter what, and the FreeBSD users said it depends what you want to do, >I knew that FreeBSD was chosen by those who know how to choose. > >-- > >Regards, > -*Sue*- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > -- Stevan S. EOs`@irc sjsan@bga.com http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~aphex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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