Hi everyone,
well, I just wanted to let all of you know that I'm back. Yes, this is not
world-moving news and most of you will probably not really remember me, but
I've been a long-time FreeBSD user and was actually somewhat active on
various FreeBSD mailing lists in about 2000 - 2005.
I have fond memories of these good old days: I was a Linux user in the mid
to late 90's, and eventually decided that I would rather like to use
FreeBSD. So exactly on the 31st of December 1999, when most people were
preparing for celebrating the new millenium, I was sitting at home, trying
to download the then-current stable FreeBSD release (3.something) ISO image
via the painfully slow 56k modem connection I had back in the day. While I
was downloading I was chatting in some IRC channels, and I remember joking
with various folks that I was hoping my FreeBSD download would complete
before midnight, because - as we all "knew" back then - on the 1st of
January 2000 the Internet (or all computer systems, for that matter) would
come to a sudden end - at least that was what the media hype was telling us.
As it turned out, my FreeBSD download completed successfully and I spent the
1st of January 2000 setting it up. I've basically been hooked ever since! I
remember "building world" every weekend, extensively using the ports
collecting, lurking and occasionally posting on the mailing lists, and just
promoting FreeBSD by recommending it to others and helping them with its
usage. Really great days ... but then my life changed, I finished school and
started working. And even though I got a job as a programmer, I worked on
something entirely unrelated to FreeBSD and unfortunately, I was too much
out of time to follow my personal FreeBSD interests as much as I would have
liked to. As a result, I became inactive on the mailing lists and didn't do
much more than just simply running FreeBSD.
Now in 2011, it seems that I will finally have some more time for the "fun"
things in life, and as a result, I'm currently in the process of getting my
machines up to date with the latest FreeBSD-Stable (currently, they're kind
of outdated). Furthermore, I'm resubscribing to all the nice mailing lists
and am planning to once again be more active on them in the future. And who
knows, probably I'll even find the time to contribute a little by writing
actual code - a thing I've always wanted to do in the past, but - despite of
a few small patches for the ocassional port - have never come around to
actually doing.
So, in short: FreeBSD community, keep ruling! I've been a quiet member of
you during the last few years, and I'm hoping to be a more active one once
again from now on. ;-)
Greetings to all of you out there,
Nils
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