Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:05:36 -0400 From: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> To: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Are you sure? (was: Hello from a newbie: Mark Filipak) Message-ID: <3CBF5140.1AAB72B4@earthlink.net> References: <3CBF3231.9EB3E4A5@earthlink.net> <87hem84p9b.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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Hello Ken! Ken McGlothlen wrote: > > Welcome to the FreeBSD camp, Mark. Thanks! -snip [about FreeBSD-based GallantWEB]- > However, I would gently recommend that you toss aside your intimidation, and > install FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. I can guarantee that it will come with all the > tools you need, and it's not overly difficult to configure into a gateway or > firewall or any sort of server you desire. Harumph! That's *not* what I've heard. > Plus it'll be easier for us to > support. We'll even walk you though configuring the kernel (though the > handbook chapter mentioned above has complete instructions). Do you promise not to foresake me, darling? My last experience trying to install BSD from scratch (two years ago) ended with reformatting the disk and reinstalling Windows 98. The installer asked me questions I didn't know how to answer, so I said "Yes" to everything. A couple of years ago I tried participating in a group that was trying to do a thing called "EasyBSD". The idea was to make FreeBSD installation easy. It didn't take me very long to realize that the leaders of the group had no idea how to do that. I don't know what happened to the project. I dropped out because I got tired of being treated like the (Micro$oft) village idiot. I'm a very old DOS user (and CP/M before that, and IBM 360/370 JCL before that), so the command line doesn't scare me, but knowing that UNIX systems don't generally have safety nets -- that one wrong command switch can screw me, trashing the system that I already have running -- that does scare me. I'm on broadband. I will take you on your word and download release 4.5 and try to install it. > Best of luck, Mark. And again, welcome. Thanks again. I'll be back <adjusting my sunglasses>. Ciao -- Mark (stepping further into the unknown...) -- See my resume: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/resume/ See my music trade pages: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/music/ Last updated: 14 April 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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