From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 8 6:31:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2725014D87 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 06:31:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11Za7Y-0004Hd-00; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 07:31:41 -0600 Message-ID: <37FDF239.2E7B3A40@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 07:31:37 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chris@calldei.com Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Wanted Unix Administrator References: <19991007231903.U86678@holly.calldei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Costello wrote: > > Throwing a juicy piece of steak into the advocacy pit. :) > > Ignoring the contraversial first non-quoted paragraph, this is > a great article. Was this posted on Usenet? Perhaps someone should ask the original author if we can use the part I've excerpted below as a customer testimonial, or a short article for DN. ;^) > This article's Message-ID is > > > ----- Forwarded message ----- > > I had never used FreeBSD before, but I decided to give it a try > after your unending diatribes against it (and against Linux). See, > you come off as half-smart, but not truly smart -- about as smart as > a robot. How could a man who claims to know so much about all of > UNIX be so thick-headed and closed-minded, I asked myself. > > Mind you, I'm no huge fan of Linux, though I do have it running as > my DNS servers. I prefer AIX, myself, including a smallish SP > complex. Sun is OK. Digital (Compaq) Unix is adequate, though > nothing special. HP-UX I know nothing about. We run BSDI on our > firewalls. > > I followed some fellow's advice (posted in comp.unix.admin a couple > of days ago) about downloading two diskette images and installing > BSD over the net. Well, he had the URL wrong, but it was not > difficult to find them at the www.freebsd.org website. > > I created the diskettes. I updated the firewall so I had internet > access from the IP address I assigned the box I was installing. I > booted the machine. It asked me a few questions about addressing and > such. I looked at it about every 15 minutes. Sometimes it wanted > answers to questions like "what additional software do you want to > install?" This was the most time-consuming question because I didn't > want everything. (Man, there's huge amounts of proggies available!) > I answered them and went back to work. I config'ed X (KDE) with > XF86Setup. A while later I rebooted. Shazzam! A UNIX box! This was > the *easiest* UNIX I've ever installed. I didn't have to read any > release notes, how-tos, or anything else. I am much impressed. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message