Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 02:50:29 -0700 From: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> To: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Real FreeBSD (fwd) Message-ID: <19990903025029.A89219@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909022326310.17237-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>; from James Howard on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:27:26PM -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909022326310.17237-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>
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I actually hung out with Scott at USENIX. Quite a friendly guy. HE was wearing both a FreeBSD shirt and hat for all of the second half of the week. This is a perfect example of how important it is for our attitudes to remain tempered. A bunch of hot headed, unhelpful advocates would have lost this guy to the wolves. Instead the project now has another very happy advocate. BTW, it was JMB that had hacked together the driver for his PCMCIA card which Scott happened to have as well. John made sure that Scott got the driver up and running. JMB should get a pat on the back for going the extra mile. :) -Bill On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:27:26PM -0400, James Howard wrote: > This is something I got in response to the "Daemon News" article. This > could be spun into a really wicked advocacy piece I think. :) > > Jamie > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:06:34 -0700 > From: Scott Anderson <scott.anderson@yumasun.com> > To: howardjp@glue.umd.edu > Subject: The Real FreeBSD > > Dear Mr. Howard, > I just wanted to comment on how I enjoyed your article "The Real FreeBSD" and > share a good experiance I had with FreeBSD coming from a Linux background. > > As a linux user for about 2 years, I have enjoyed the OS and the ability to > gain "UNIX" experiance through it. The experiances I've had with Linux and > FreeBSD have helped me in my career and in getting comfortable with the > commercial UNIX's I have to deal with on a daily basis. > > This past year I attended the USENIX technical conference in Monteray, CA. I > had heard mention of FreeBSD and the other BSDs, but really didn't have any > experiance with them. While hanging out in the terminal room (where 'net access > was provided so that the geeks wouldn't have twitching fits (also sponsored by > the FreeBSD group)) with my laptop, I had observed many of the FreeBSD > developers and users interact and talk of their choice OS. I decided I > wanted to give FreeBSD a try, so I made some room for a partition and piped up > I wanted to install FreeBSD. Quickly I had people making me boot disks, asking > me if I needed a CD, and pretty soon I had a core developer at my side walking > me through the install. I was pleased with the OS and even more pleased that > the people who make FreeBSD happen were so cool and down to earth, especially > in contrast to the FreeBSD/Linux/other "operating systems super zealots" who > lack technical or even general knowlege and are quick to lash out. I ended up > hanging out with the FreeBSD croud all week, having fun, bugging them with all > my questions, and learning as much as I could about the OS. I'd like to thank > them for being so cool, for hacking a driver for my PCMCIA network card so I > could us it under FreeBSD and for turning me on to the OS, a very fine one > indeed. > > Sorry if this was a bit long winded, but feel free to use my experiance to show > others that the group that makes FreeBSD happen isn't a heartless gang out > slay people for not already knowing their OS. Thank you for your time, keep up > the good work. > > Sincerly, > Scott J. Anderson > > -- > -Scott Anderson > IT Director > Yuma Daily Sun > (520) 539-6987 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- -=| --- B i l l S w i n g l e --- http://www.dub.net/ -=| unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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