WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2008-03-10 08:33, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote:
> I still have the FreeBSD 2.1.5 set from Walnut Creek that a friend had
> shipped to me after I expressed an interest to "learn unix"
> 
> I sometimes wonder how different things would be if he'd been a linux
> fan and shipped me some slackware cds or something.

"There's no escape from Fate", at least not for some of us.  My own UNIX
road starts as a user of SunOS 4.X but the first UNIX-like system I
installed on my own computer was Linux.

A friend let me install Linux from his red InfoMagic CD-ROM set, and I
still have my own blue Infomagic CD-ROM set, with Slackware 3.1 and the
Redhat Linux "Picasso" release (with Linux kernel 1.2.13).

After a few years of Linux fun, I borrowed an OpenBSD CD-ROM, managed to
trash my partition table (because I didn't know enough about disklabels)
and eventually hit upon the FreeBSD Handbook.  The Handbook seemed very
detailed, easy to read, and I realized I was actually _learning_ stuff
by just reading it -- without having even installed FreeBSD yet.

That was it, for me :)