On 2008-03-10 08:33, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
