From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 29 22:25:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.unixg.ubc.ca (mail.unixg.ubc.ca [137.82.27.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4ACD152E8 for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 22:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dustinl@interchange.ubc.ca) Received: from netinfo3.ubc.ca ([137.82.27.47] ident=dustinl) by mail.unixg.ubc.ca with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10ny63-0006eS-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 May 1999 22:25:19 -0700 Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 22:25:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Dustin Lang X-Sender: dustinl@netinfo3.ubc.ca To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Ramblings from a Newbie... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've been playing with FreeBSD the last few days. I've got 3.2-Release installed, got a custom kernel built, and I'm now customizing things to my liking. Everything has gone smoothly, with a few bumps due to errors in the operator code (ie, me :). I come from a Linux background, so some of the BSDisms take a little getting used to. From what I've seen so far, FreeBSD seems like a good solid system with a lot of attention given to details. I'm impressed with the attention to security issues throughout. Also, my mind is still grappling with the idea that there is only _one_ distribution. ("What kind of system do you run?" "Well, I started out with Slackware 3.4, but now I'm running kernel 2.2.9 and glibc2 and... should I just send you `ldconfig -v`?" :) I have just one question, but it's not specific to FreeBSD or even BSD. Why on earth do people use vi? I'm not trying to start a flame war or anything, but it's just so unfriendly. Doing the install was simple and very friendly up until I did a 'chsh' and got vi! My editor of choice is pico, the editor that looks like pine and has instructions on the bottom. Sure, it's simple and doesn't have all the advanced features you might want in an editor, but for doing a 'chsh', it's sufficient! Of course, that's just me... Before hitting reply and flaming me, check this out and have a chuckle... http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99may/19990508.html (disregard the Linux advertising/propaganda) Thanks to all the developers out there for making a great system! dstn. ---------------------------------------------------- -- Dustin Lang, dustinl@interchange.ubc.ca -- (java developer, linux guy, freak with rainbow hair) User, n.: a particularly slow and unreliable input/ output device that is attached by default to the standard input and output streams. (stolen from a Gamelan article, author unknown) ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message