From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 19:37:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14866 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14858 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:37:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id TAA58614 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:36:57 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id TAA18112 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971024024019.007c3a60@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: jcwells@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:40:19 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jason Wells Subject: Are Kudos ok on this list? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Too bad. I am going to give some anyway. I am writing to this list instead of chat because this is the list I subscribe to and also because the people on this list who answer at least 10 or 15 emails per day deserve to hear this. Kudos to everyone officially or voluntarily involved with the FreeBSD project. Thanks to the core members especially. I formerly worked under the naive assumption that all unices were as comprehensible as FreeBSD. I have just started working with a commercial unix. The hierarchy is bizzare. I would really like to know who thought an executable should go in /var! :) The source is not available. In fact /usr/src (or the like) does not exist on the tree or the system CD. I found out today that we had to pay extra for the freakin NFS. You get the OS the way the company wants you to get it and tough luck if you don't like it. I guess FreeBSD has spoiled me. FreeBSD was cool when I first started using it a year ago. When I first started my impression of the OS was "neato". I thought to myself, "A real unix system has to be _something else_ if this cute little free OS is so neat." Well... the real unix system that I have to use is "something else" but decorum dictates that I not speak it. I should not have let the "Free" in FreeBSD fool me. This OS is the real deal. This list is the best tech support anyone could hope for. The people here are here because they want to be. I know they must really care. Why else would someone do this for free? I have always been able to get good answers from this list (along with a couple nice tries from newer users :) ). In the world of tech support, free is rare. Accurate and free is incredible. My company would have had to pay to get support from our OS vendor. As it was they still had to pay me to sit there and sift through a pile of files to figure something out. (I am just good enough on a system to figure most everything out given enough time.) Free software is the best kept secret in professional computing circles it seems. It seems to me that free software is better because it is not encumbered by all of the trappings of the commercial universe. While other software vendors are fighting piracy or antitrust suits, FreeBSD is kicking out release after release of great enterprise ready software. Though I am know where near as knowledgable or experienced as some people on this list, I have decided to become a FreeBSD crusader. Any time I get a chance to give my input on a server problem I am going proclaim FreeBSD as the solution. Thank you for a great product and a great community. Your admiring egghead, Jason C. Wells __ __ / 0\ / 0\ Thank you * Highperformance.net ) Wannabe Sysadmin * The homeless domain )-------( Jason Wells * "Pardon me sir, spare some bandwidth?" \_____/