Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-12 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 06:55:16 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 diff

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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 sl

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-11 Thread Kenneth P. Stox
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 18:24 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I sometimes wonder how different things would be if he'd been a linux fan > > and > > shipped me some slackware cds or something. > > > You might have started with Slackware and ended up at FreeBSD anyway; like > I did. > > (I do

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread rloefgren
I sometimes wonder how different things would be if he'd been a linux fan and shipped me some slackware cds or something. You might have started with Slackware and ended up at FreeBSD anyway; like I did. (I don't use it anymore but I still maintain a Slack subscription. I don't like Linux's

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:33:16AM -0500, Josh Paetzel 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 have a stack several feet high of WC FreeBSD disks. Forgot when I started collecting, sometime b

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread Dan Langille
On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008 05:56:46 am SEan Strand wrote: Just wondering if you have the original FreeBSD disks, in the original packing that being dated for example FreeBSD 2.2.5 November 1997, Try to have a dig-out and a good look? Rgds SEanS

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Monday 10 March 2008 05:56:46 am SEan Strand wrote: > Just wondering if you have the original FreeBSD disks, in the original > packing that being dated for example FreeBSD 2.2.5 November 1997, > > Try to have a dig-out and a good look? > Rgds SEanS > I still have the FreeBSD 2.1.5 set from Waln

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread SEan Strand
Just wondering if you have the original FreeBSD disks, in the original packing that being dated for example FreeBSD 2.2.5 November 1997, Try to have a dig-out and a good look? Rgds SEanS On 09/03/2008, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > It's also a shell

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-03-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > It's also a shell meta-character in the shells I'm familiar with, and > > gets expanded long before grep would ever see it unless you escape it. > > Hence the question about what shell the poster is using > > sh, bash, or ksh just pass it a long literally if n

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-02-29 Thread Samuel Chow
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:09:58 + Matthew West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:59:49AM +, Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: > > Come to think of it, when was 3.3 released? > > $ grep ^FreeBSD.*3.3 /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree > FreeBSD 3.3 1999-09-17 [FBD]

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-02-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> It's also a shell meta-character in the shells I'm familiar with, and > gets expanded long before grep would ever see it unless you escape it. > Hence the question about what shell the poster is using sh, bash, or ksh just pass it a long literally if not matched tcsh, csh complain if not

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-02-29 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 29 February 2008 01:51:03 pm Nejc Škoberne wrote: > Hi, > > >> $ grep FreeBSD.*1998 /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree > >> FreeBSD 2.2.6 1998-03-25 [FBD] > >> FreeBSD 2.2.7 1998-07-22 [FBD] > >> FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD] > >> FreeBSD 2.2.8 1998-1

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-02-29 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hi, $ grep FreeBSD.*1998 /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree FreeBSD 2.2.6 1998-03-25 [FBD] FreeBSD 2.2.7 1998-07-22 [FBD] FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD] FreeBSD 2.2.8 1998-11-29 [FBD] :-) Just out of curiosity, what shell are you using where you don't have

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-02-29 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 29 February 2008 07:09:58 am Matthew West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:59:49AM +, Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: > > Come to think of it, when was 3.3 released? > > $ grep ^FreeBSD.*3.3 /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree > FreeBSD 3.3 1999-09-17 [FBD] > > And for ten y

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-02-29 Thread Matthew West
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:59:49AM +, Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: > Come to think of it, when was 3.3 released? $ grep ^FreeBSD.*3.3 /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree FreeBSD 3.3 1999-09-17 [FBD] And for ten years ago: $ grep FreeBSD.*1998 /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree FreeBSD

Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-02-28 Thread Alphons "Fonz" van Werven
Randy Pratt wrote: Well, today is my 10 year anniversary of installing FreeBSD and I'm looking forward to the next 10 ;-) Congratufrigginlations dude! Right on! Come to think of it, when was 3.3 released? Alphons -- All right, that does it Bill [Donahue]. I'm pretty sure that killing Jesus

WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

2008-02-28 Thread Randy Pratt
Well, today is my 10 year anniversary of installing FreeBSD and I'm looking forward to the next 10 ;-) I started with almost zero computer experience after I "retired" and progressed far beyond what I expected. I managed to dump windows 3.1 with all its general fault protection errors shortly th