Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:28:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: From a newbie standpoint Message-ID: <14790.27860.568386.695631@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <114612941@toto.iv>
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Christian Weisgerber writes: > I'm under the impression that a novice installation does just this. Would you believe I've *never* done a Novice installation? By the time I did my first FreeBSD install, I'd been making a living as a Unix (almost all BSD-derived) sysadmin for 15 years. I *knew* what I wanted the system to look like when I did my first install. > Of course, you do realize that FreeBSD is a unix system which, once > it is installed, needs a skilled administrator? When I started > out with unix, I was told you needed ten years of experience to be > qualified for system administration. No matter whether you believe > in that estimate, systems have not become any simpler since. No, they've gotten much more complex. Oddly enough, they've also gotten more tolerant of less experienced sysadmins. A lot of the things that experience taught me I needed to do for every system FreeBSD does out of the box. Which is more than I can say for some recent commercial systems. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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