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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!ix.netcom.com!news From: Jerry Hicks <jerry_hicks@bigfoot.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: First time running FreeBSD/Unix (Never USED Unix before) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 12:24:18 -0400 Organization: GoWorld Communications, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3381D032.1F76@bigfoot.com> References: <337F1B88.6116@worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: jerry_hicks@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: atl-ga14-04.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Tue May 20 11:51:37 AM CDT 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) To: jlj.mitchell.max@worldnet.att.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41289 Jason wrote: > > FreeBSD is a great platform to start in Unix. I am only 16 and have > done some amazing things with my coumputer. But since this was my first > venture into Unix, I thought it would be a good learning experince. > > I got FreeBSD on a Monday. By Friday I had XFree86 running with > different windows managers(and I don't even know how to program). > > For anyone getting into Unix, choose FreeBSD, I did. Pretty cool Jason. I got my first start with Unix about 16 too. It was Version 6. FreeBSD is *much* nicer. I hope you'll pursue learning to develop software. You can't imagine how rewarding it has been, growing up with the computing revolution(s). The best is yet to come. Be a part of it. Regards, Jerry Hicks jerry_hicks@bigfoot.com