Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:38:19 +0100 From: Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se> To: Donald Laniohan <donald@mlansd.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD... Message-ID: <47E292FB.3090904@passagen.se> In-Reply-To: <000001c88a5c$82d01b40$887051c0$@com> References: <000001c88a5c$82d01b40$887051c0$@com>
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Donald Laniohan skrev: > My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the > information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my > best friend, which I have. i remember building my first whitebox, it was a > 386 with windows 3.1. I remember when I built my 486 and stole a copy of > windows 95. I thought I was a savage. BSD, however, has showed me how > juvenile I have been. If I do not master BSD my brother is going to keep me > as a desktop support for his windows clients and I want to progress past > this. So he's giving me a 1u, and said to put BSD on it and make it do > something, im just so stuck in my windows comfort zone I can't think of what > I would need a unix server to that I couldn't make windows do for me. I know > this is trivial but if somebody could offer any suggestion or resource I, > and my career, would greatly appreciate it > > > > Donald Laniohan > > MLAN Consulting > > San Diego, CA > > donald@mlansd.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > "what I would need a unix server to that I couldn't make windows do for me." The answer is - nothing. Both are operating systems for computers and have unlimited possibilities. It's a matter of time and curiosity. Look at it like this: Windows: Easy things - short time to learn and do Hard things - proprietary stuff - looooong time to learn and do FreeBSD Easy things - longer time than above to learn and do Hard things - if you get through the easy stuff - it's a doodle If you're curious enough, you'll find time to master both. And then the next thing you get curious of and so on. On my behalf I started by trying FreeBSD some 10 odd years ago and noticed that it then vastly outperformed Windows for some of the things I used it for. Another thing was the incredible stability. Been hooked ever since. These days I've heard that Mac OSX is built on part of *BSD - must be a reason somewhere.... As for resources the starting point was in the thread - that'd be www.freebsd.org of course and here's some more: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/73 <- All hail Dru Lavigne! http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ http://freebsdhowtos.com/ http://www.freebsd.org/projects/index.html http://tomclegg.net/examples http://freebsd.peon.net/ http://www.freshports.org/ http://freebsd.teekoo.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd/ http://www.freebsddiary.org/ http://www.bsd.org/ ...and of course www.google.com. Just my nickels worth. /Roger
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