Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:46:32 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "James Buchanan" <gnudev@ozemail.com.au>, "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Software on FreeBSD (Has FBSD4.4 grown up yet) Message-ID: <20011114044902.A997F37B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:12:28 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joe & Fhe >>Barbish >> >>Bottom line FBSD is a learning playground, that you will have to work hard >>to gain a understanding of what is going on. FBSD may be a very reliable and >>fast system once you get it up and configured the way you want it, but you >>had better be willing to invest mega time to get there. For a newbe with >>out any prier Unix background, 200 hours for bare bones out of the box, and >>1500 hours for full system with mail, www, desktop, firewall, and IP to >>local PC with access to internet. > >This is exactly why I wrote my book, and Annelise wrote her book, and >there's a few other ones out there too. Those assume a newbie to >FreeBSD, her's in fact assumes not only a newbie to FreeBSD but a newbie >to the concept of running any kind of computer operating system. > >If you use those then you will find out that your 200 hours is shortened >to maybe 20 hours, and your 1500 hours is shortened to maybe 100. geez 1500 hrs?? I'm lucky if I have 50 hrs in my whole setup and it doesn't crash. the only problem i have is a carrier detect bug in multilink ppp --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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