From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 27 20:54:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24343 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from natsiq.nunanet.com (root@natsiq.nunanet.com [199.247.47.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA24333 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:53:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@nunanet.com) Received: from natsiq.nunanet.com (natsiq.nunanet.com [199.247.47.3]) by natsiq.nunanet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA17896; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:47:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:47:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Marcel Mason {Personal} To: Sue Blake cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What tipped the balance In-Reply-To: <19980727101736.63991@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:17:37 +1000 > From: Sue Blake > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: What tipped the balance > > Someone asked me in private mail why I chose FreeBSD instead of another > OS, and I thought it might make an interesting topic. You're right Sue, it makes a darned good topic, so I'll toss my my 2 cents worth into it > The main issue for me was that I wanted to learn unix, learn it right, > and learn it once. We are definately {almost} on the same wave length. I work with an ISP that uses FreeBSD, as I moved more and more from a support role to an administrator role I decided that I needed to know more and to do that I needed to work on it a lot more than dropping to a shell session at work. > 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. When I made the decision that the home machine had to be a *nix of some sort I started talking to people in the industry that I work with on a regular basis and almost without fail I was told, "cut your teeth on Linux, the learning curve is much more gentle and the transition to FreeBSD is just not going to be difficult, all the concepts carry across but Linux is just a bit more friendly on the start-up end". The people telling me this are guys & gals that make *nix machines of almost any variety (we work with FreeBSD, BSDi, SCO, Linux) of *nix machine do absolute magic. Now before I get flamed for expounding the virtues of Linux on FreeBSD list I have to say, FreeBSD from the get-go may be wonderful for many users but I find Linux to be a great learning tool for the better (IMHO) platform of FreeBSD. Thus ends the story of how Marcel ended up living on FreeBSD during the day and coming home to Redhat 5.1 in the evenings. Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message