Hello, Greetings & Self-Introduction Thread

[smarc]

Hello World!

[bretesq]

Finally, an official forum. We've been needing this for years!

[smarc]

Email lists with searchable archives are great, but I like forums better.

[muppie]

Yayyyy one of the first few to post :) it's awesome to see an official forum! Love it!

[nolaf]

This Rocks!

[Weaseal]

Finally!

[andygui]

Awesome! Forums have long been a powerful way to keep members of a community involved. As bretesq said, FreeBSD has needed this for years!

[Yamagi]

Cool, an official forum. Badly needed for years and now finally there :)

[anthony]

wheeeeeeeee!!!

[GlynM]

Looking forward to seeing how these forums develop!
Many thanks.

atb

Glyn

[chasba]

Same here, I am going to follow this forum with great anticipation. Happy posting. :D

[Geoff]

w00t

[s-tlk]

I'm pleased to see there is an official forum out there. :-)

[laoye]

I will visit this place very often!

[MarS]

Good to have official forums! :)

[melitta]

Hello all!

[EagleTree]

Strongly agree with the need for this and how pleased I am with it. I hope those used to the mail lists will consider this a valid venue. If so, it can only improve FreeBSDs standing with newbies. It's so much less daunting to those who don't remember the early days of the net (which is probably most).

Kudos to the creators of the forum!!! :beer

Chris Pratt

[ed]

mirabile visu

[hitest]

Yay!!! The official FreeBSD Forums are here. :-) A very welcome addition to our community. :-)

[Raven2000]

YYYES!!!
Hi All!
===
Happy posting =)

[Markand]

Yes ! Finally official FreeBSD Forum :-)

[obris]

Great news! Does someone know it the opening of groups in other languages is planed?

[gloom]

Very good!!!
Hi All)

[venture37]

Cool!
Hi All! :)

[brd@]

Great news! Does someone know it the opening of groups in other languages is planed?
This is planned for the future once we have grown larger and have enough people helping out.

[ken]

errr... but what about "make world" and "build world"??

Greets and Salutations everyone and thanks to mods and admins for taking on these often thankless but necessary tasks :)

[cmc4bsd]

I think this will be a big help to the FreeBSD community.

I'm an old email guy but it's nice to be able to just go
into a forum and ask or read questions without having to
wade through so many emails or deal with Usenet.

[ika256]

hehee, FreeBSD forum
great
hello world and people :)

[Antti]

Great job guys, hope this will help community to grow and make it's life easier.

[thazer]

great work on the forum! nice to know there's a official place to gather

[sev]

That is truly awesome!

[cnr]

Hello.. we are also here! for more information with BSD UNIX ;)

[warinthepocket]

Irc ftw!

[en0f]

so this is where everyone's hanging out.. ;)

[ans]

Its great ;)

[Simor]

Long Live FreeBSD &%&

[serge]

Hi all!
:)

[g4rdn3r]

Great! Finally we have official forum. Jupi !

[lexfree]

Sorry, my english not very good. it's very nice that there was such forum!!

[KenJackson]

Email lists with searchable archives are great, but I like forums better.

Amen! Exactly right.

[grrr]

great work \o/

[jakobbg]

This is very nice! Congrats, people!

[Aktis]

Hi ALL ;)

[MinDeR]

It's happend!!!
Hello world! Hello forum!

[anello]

What's sup!?!

[businessgeeks]

hey guys! good to find that FreeBSD has its own official forum already! cheers!

[obIVAN]

Yey! FreeBSD in the 21st century!

[hitest]

Hello from Northern B.C., Canada. We're quite close to Alaska....I can't see Russia though.:-)

[melitta]

Hello from Northern B.C., Canada. We're quite close to Alaska....I can't see Russia though.:-)

:e

Hello from Colorado!

[kmf]

Thanks Guys!
This will be a success.

Karl

[simoncpu]

weeee weeeee weeeee :e

[thomas]

Cool! Answers from one source without having to register to see if there is an answer to your problem, and, oh, gee, there's not an answer yet -- why don't you post one?

[CnYouker]

冏rz..

[subterranean]

hello!!

[str1251]

Hi, all.
It`s great.

[Falken]

Here we goooooooo!!!!!!!

^_^!

[kamikaze]

I see, all the usual suspects pop up.

This step was clearly overdue, but it looks like a lot of time has been spent to integrate vBulletin properly. So it was worth the wait.

Now I'll have to start my threads in two forums in two languages.

[arust]

It's so great:P

[yaol]

Finally!!!
Hi All!!

[betakley]

Hi, all!!!

[MorgothV8]

Hi, Im from Poland, my name is Lucas
Im using freeBSD since FreeBSD 4.0 was relesed, recently 6.2 on amd64 platfor, awaiting 7.1 to be finished..
I like cars (have one: old 94' Audi A8 4,2 litre benzin) and expeditions to arctic areay (my plans are to get onto Nordaustlanded in Svalbard archipelago)

:)

[freestyle]

here we go!
:beer :beergrin

[squirL]

hello from Ukraine :)

[ctaranotte]

This my official Hello to the Official FreeBSD Forum :)

I officially hope this is the official place get official answers to my official questions.

Official regards

[fbsd24h]

It's wonderful to see Official FreeBSD forum today §e .

[Daemony]

Ukraine (Dnepr City (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=48.454982,35.056&daddr=&hl=en&geocode=&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=12&sll=48.457669,35.06321&sspn=0.171445,0.307617&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12)) is also joined to congratulations! :stud :beergrin

[snnn]

wonderful!

[edhunter]

at last, offical freebsd forums !!! :))
I beleive this is very good step in satisfing community needs :)

[oversize]

ah, yes !!!

[MorgothV8]

Hello from Poland §e

[empty]

Hello from Sweden! yay!

[empty]

Finally an official forum!

[mfaridi]

Hello we are here.

[vantoo]

Hello from Ukraine!:beergrin

[kantor]

this is great !!

[calande]

You should make friends with famous vermaden in no time. I think he's going to declare forums.freebsd.org his new home ;)

[tbyte]

Nice to know that :)

[gonza]

hello from /dev/beer !!

[darko]

hello... good to see there is finally a forum. looks great. good work freebsd

[safekali]

Official FreeBSD forum.
This is a long awaited "feature", this way we dont have to flood the mailing lists.

Keep on the good work.

The Best Regards

[cpu]

Hello,


Great to have an official FreeBSD forum :)

Thank you

[cpu]

great :)

[Mustafa]

Hi i just wanted to congratulate all of the FreeBSD users for the official forums i think it's gonna help many users using FreeBSD

Mustafa

[Xaenn]

I'm glad to see that FreeBSD now has official forums. I can only hope that they grow into a great resource over time. :)

[Sundj]

:P First tip~

[hitest]

I am thrilled that our community now has an official portal that we can call our own! :beergrin
Greeting from Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada. :-) Prince Rupert is a small fishing community situated quite close to Alaska, USA.

[pablo]

Hello, World!
Let's make and install new World for Free!

[FLY]

Hello FreeBSD Forum :beergrin
Best wishes!

[stasmus]

I congratulate! Now at us an own forum!

[Sk1f3r]

Hello ^_^

[Nightmare]

Hello FreeBSD World! :beer

[Vladimir]

It's great

[rihad]

Greetings from Azerbaijan!

[hay]

Also my 5 cents... this was needed and it's great! �e

[saritor]

Hullo FreeBSD official forums, and yay! Wading through mailing lists is only fun for so long.

[empement]

Hello from Macedonia GR.

[oversize]

Hello from Frankfurt, Germany.

[sremick]

Ah, love the forums! Of course, now no one will have reason to use mine, ha. Not that they did anyway. My website was more of a labor of love and a learning exercise than anything that actually gets used:

http://www.vtbsd.net/

I'm sure to be hanging out here a lot.

[james89]

About damn time :)

[cliedo]

I agree that the formalitys of asking the proper questions can be discussed in a more relaxed manner im not drunk yet lol

[kostya]

hi all. test :)

[jsa@]

\o/ Been a long time coming.

Thanks for all the work that went into this.

[Ico]

Hello FreeBSD Forums! :D

That's one thing the community needed to really grow as a community :)

[lme@]

To prevent that there are dozens of "Hello world!" and "Greetings" threads, please use this one to introduce yourself.

Hello from Duesseldorf, Germany, btw! :)

[horus]

Hello from Zhejiang, China! :)
Wow, 2nd floor...

[thortos]

Die Welt ist klein. ;) (It's a small world...)

So hi from Neuss, directly next to Düsseldorf, where I lived for most of my life.

If we are joined by some more Rheinländer, we can organize a meet-up in the Altstadt. ;)

[ansc]

Wow! Now im finally complete :e! This forum is definitely long waited. Now the waiting is over. Thanks for the iniciative!

[aaron]

Its about time... :)
Just saw this today.

[Jeff]

Ontario, Canada here :)

[netrom]

Finally it is here!
Thank you very much for that.

[netrom]

...Oh and I'm from Ã…rhus, Denmark! :)

[vivian]

Congratulate Official FreeBSD Forum ;)

[snnn]

^_^
long time no see, my friend

[MartijnAtLico]

Hello from the Netherlands. Great idea these forums, it's good to finally have a 21st century compliant central gathering place for the FreeBSD community. Let's see how this grows.

[ninjaslim]

Hello from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA! I'm very gald to be here. I started with Linux and ended up with Unix. Now, I won't use anything else. My preferred systems are OpenSolaris/Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Debian, and Fedora. I know Debian and Fedora are Linux distributions, but they're the closest Linuxes to Unix I've seen, which is why I can use them.

[doena]

Hello from Fuerth, Germany! :)
I'm glad that FreeBSD now has an official forum

[LinuXo]

Hola Mundo!

Saludos desde Querétaro, México!

[rliegh]

I can honestly say this is the most surprising thing I've seen this year --when I think of BSD the last thing I think of is phpbb boards.

And yet here it is. Well, I'm just coming back to FreeBSD (I used 3,4 and then skipped over 5 and 6; 7.1 is looking promising, though) so I'll probably be around.

[Seth]

Hello world! :)

[Levenson]

Hi every one. My name is Alex. I'm so happy!!

[Wench]

Woo official forums.

Hello from Yorkshire!

[anomie]

Warm regards from Austin.

[myst]

Hello. Russia, Vladivostok with u ,)

[Falken]

This is a congrat message from Spain.

Hello Daemonsssss....!!!!

[LordZ]

Hello world. Moldova here...FreeBSD rocks

[holo]

Hi everibody,

I dream ? No, finally it is real ! :)

Thanks to the developpers, core team, and commiters ... and the community.

And excuses-me for my english ;)

I will put a link on my web site

http://tutti-free.com

[Freehill]

Hey all, a new FreeBSD 7 user here. I like it. :e

[arust]

hehe

[businessgeeks]

Im migrating back from Centos / Ubuntu... Woohoo! FREEBSD rules!

[z0ran]

Hello from Serbia!
God bless FreeBSD developers, smartest people ever :)

[Eponasoft]

Hi all, Eponasoft here. Working on my first FreeBSD application, bsdBASIC. Right now, I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 through vmware 5 hosted in Windows XP, but after my last Windows project is completed in spring of 2009, I'll be switching over to FreeBSD fulltime. I'm located in Puerto Rico, which means I can converse in both English and Spanish, and will likely be writing all applications in as many languages as I can.

Good to see an official forum for FreeBSD. Hope this helps the effort. :)

[alangelov]

FreeBSD is making a step away from the stone-age mailing-list format. Can't be more happy about it. Wooopie! :e

[Andrius]

FreeBSD is not making step away from anything, forums are here to be additional resource, not a replacement for mailing lists.

[alangelov]

FreeBSD is not making step away from anything, forums are here to be additional resource, not a replacement for mailing lists.

I bet only the core team + developers + packagers + etc. will stick to the mailing lists in a couple of months! Mark my words, Andrius! :)

[lptr]

This has been long awaited, much appreciation!

Cheers

[Darwin]

Hello from russian, Udomlya. FreeBSD - my life.

[tomh009]

Greetings from Canada ... working with BSD since 1984, and with FreeBSD since 2002. The server farm for our web site (web servers, forums, database, content management etc.) will shortly be 100% FreeBSD/amd64, and I'll be all the happier for that!

[Dr_Phoenix]

Greetings from daemons in Ukraine ;))
I do not know what I would do without FreeBSD, thanks for all developers and all community who use FreeBSD, it is really great and free, Yeah!!!

[Darwin]

plus plus, Dr_Phoenix, FreeBSD good OS! I cannot live without FreeBSD

[Citsakots]

Hello. I'm extremely happy to see that FreeBSD has finally decided to add an official forum. I'm a big fan of FreeBSD and use it as my desktop in my main computer and as an experimental unit in my spare. I'm truely impressed how FreeBSD now has both an official forum and a YouTube channel as it will help more people find out more about FreeBSD in a wider range of ways.

[paulfrottawa]

I should have said hello on the first day.

So instead I say CHEERS.

I'm playing with freebsd instead of playing with myself. I gives me something to do and I hope on day my kids will use it to. Assuming Freebsd still doesn't come with spy ware like other OS might.

I would like to get into home automation and some surveillance. Building a internet camera's from scratch, monitoring electric usage, turning on and off lights and sensing conditions around my home.

I don't know how to do anything but that is the direction I'm heading.

[cmanns]

I should have said hello on the first day.
...

Very interesting mate.

I came here for the wine patch (Must register to download :(, but regardless nice to be here. I hope FreeBSD may finally work with my favorite win32 game; may switch permanently for once �e

[biglaughing]

I should have said hello on the first day.

So instead I say CHEERS.

I'm playing with freebsd instead of playing with myself. I gives me something to do and I hope on day my kids will use it to. Assuming Freebsd still doesn't come with spy ware like other OS might.

I would like to get into home automation and some surveillance. Building a internet camera's from scratch, monitoring electric usage, turning on and off lights and sensing conditions around my home.

I don't know how to do anything but that is the direction I'm heading.

Intelligent home. That's great direction! ( actually that's also one of my directions)
Hope you get there soon ! Cheers!

[biglaughing]

Long Live FreeBSD &%&

Sure! Cheers!

[alie]

Long Live FreeBSD!

-Alie
www.alietan.com

[hemi]

Isn't this supposed to be a self-introduction thread? :)

My name's Josh. I've been a FreeBSD user since 1999, around 3.4-RELEASE, IIRC. I've been maintaining a few ports for a few years, have a few useful FreeBSD-related web pages and generally do my best to suggest FreeBSD to people when I think it would be the right tool for the job.

I'm an "IT Specialist" for the US government. I've been doing that for the past three years but have been doing the IT thing "professionally" for the past ten years.

Outside of work, my hobbies are working on my Jeep and other friends' vehicles, motorcycles, firearms-related activities (competitive shooting sports, gunsmithing, instructing new shooters, etc.), metal-fab, computer gaming, camping and pretty much anything else outdoors.

[andreas]

Greetings from Greece , new Freebsd user!

[xteraco]

Hi everyone! I'm newish to FreeBSD, I tried it about 5mo ago, and had a hard time getting it to run Second Life. I play to Dual boot Gentoo or Slackware + FreeBSD. Gentoo for my Second Life needs, BSD for the rest.

About me? I'm an IT consultant for a medical software company. I also do some freelance programming. In my spare time I code and play PC games.

[eljiair]

Hi !

Happy new year

I'm french retired in the Netherlands and new on Free BSD.

I've lost too much time with Linux ( Suse and OpenSuse & Gentoo, since eight years )

It's really funny to read : How to secure your Gentoo : Gentoo hardened ( or your Debian, too ). I couldn't believe what i was reading.

Linux is not a secure OS , it's a practical joke.

If you really don't think so, please read these tutorials

The surgeon said : the only way for Linux is euthanasia.

After reading these tutorials, i've formated all my hard disks.. The end of my experience with Linux.


I've installed OpenBSD ( for a server ) and FreeBSD ( for Desktop and server.)

Congratulations for your Handbook.

[jemate18]

Hello world! I love this forum.... I want to learn a lot of stuff here...

Thanks guys for having this great and wonderful forum.

Wish this forum will grow and grow and grow so that newbies in the FreeBSD (like me) will learn a lot and discuss things with the FreeBSD community.

Cheers!

[jemate18]

Hi !

Happy new year

I'm french retired in the Netherlands and new on Free BSD.

I've lost too much time with Linux ( Suse and OpenSuse & Gentoo, since eight years )

It's really funny to read : How to secure your Gentoo : Gentoo hardened ( or your Debian, too ). I couldn't believe what i was reading.

Linux is not a secure OS , it's a practical joke.

If you really don't think so, please read these tutorials

The surgeon said : the only way for Linux is euthanasia.

After reading these tutorials, i've formated all my hard disks.. The end of my experience with Linux.


I've installed OpenBSD ( for a server ) and FreeBSD ( for Desktop and server.)

Congratulations for your Handbook.


I'm also currently running a lot of GNU/Linux. And now I'm starting to learn FreeBSD. May I know the reasons for the GNU/linux being unsecured? Do you have the links on the tutorials(i wanna read it)? I'm planning to migrate some of my boxes to FreeBSD...

Thanks......

[rghq]

Another happy FreeBSD user here :)

Never thanked RedHat for Fedora and the final decision to switch over to FreeBSD years ago, after years on a Slackware Linux that I still use on a private machine.

Linux is not a secure OS , it's a practical joke.

May I know the reasons for the GNU/linux being unsecured?

SELinux / GrSecurity and the other things maybe ? Depending on the distro some require Kernel Patching that might cause update problems, Debian lacks mod_security due of license issues - well, these are problems with "ports" and are maybe Distro specific and you can install everything with a simple "make install" - still, if I need to compile anyways, personally I prefer a BSD system.

Doesn't mean Linux is bad - just for my use, BSD fits much better.

[Mad_Dud]

Hello,

I would like to thank everyone who participate in FreeBSD project. Good job, guys!

Former (almost) GNU/Linux administrator
Present BSD administrator
:-)

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

Registered today. Professionally, finishing my ph.d this year in systems biology, here in stuttgart, germany. longtime linux user, recently tried freebsd with great success.

[ChickenWing88]

Hello my name is Porter Smith. I am a15 + yeraa vetren dos user, who in 2005 discovers the world of power computing provided to one through unix and its' operating system cousins. I hale from Broward County Florida wghere a currnetly attend calssers aty Broward College. FGor much of the past 48 months a have distribution hopped from Ubunto, to Suse, to Debian and evry thing in between, amnd finally sebtled on Ubuntu for my lenive lap top Open suse x86_64 for my Pavillion a6230n.

[crsd]

Hello my name is Porter Smith. I am a15 + yeraa vetren dos user, who in 2005 discovers the world of power computing provided to one through unix and its' operating system cousins. I hale from Broward County Florida wghere a currnetly attend calssers aty Broward College. FGor much of the past 48 months a have distribution hopped from Ubunto, to Suse, to Debian and evry thing in between, amnd finally sebtled on Ubuntu for my lenive lap top Open suse x86_64 for my Pavillion a6230n.

I'm sorry, but if I may ask, why are you making that many typos? :)

[kevin89]

Hello everyone on the forums!

I just started using FreeBSD and I totally love it so far! I've come from Archlinux (which I still enjoy!), but finally jumped on the *BSD boat, which I've been wanting to do for a long time!

Hope to have a good time with FreeBSD and at the forums!
Also, props for the awesome Handbook, it made installing a breeze! :)

[BuSerD]

I use these forums weekly. I have not posted much but i do try if i something worth contributing. Thanks for providing to place for users to learn and share what they have learned.

[sossego]

Hey.
Sou eu. "It's me."
I've been using Free BSD since 6.0 came out in the beta stage. I guess about 3.5 years.

I do physical labor.

Somewhere, sometime, I want to make it easier for people to use Free BSD.

I have already convinced people to use Linux- Debian & fedora .
I even installed it on the boxes.

I need a few to do Free BSD on.<-- Yeah......

[nfisher1226]

I'm just coming over from Linux. And I already wish I'd done so earlier. I installed 7.1 last week without realizing how soon 7.2 would be out, but no problem because the documentation in the handbook is so good I managed to build the world, kernel, and all my packages as a completely green newbie. I've even got compositing working in Metacity (which never worked before on this machine).

So I'd like to say I'll be a frequent poster, but like I said the documentation is so good. It might be a long time before I have a question I can't get answered by reading the handbook myself. I'm loving this.

[DeepDude]

I'm DeepDude and I'm a FreeBSD user. "Hi DeepDude." :)

I am testing my FreeBSD on my laptop machine for my first time and I must say, I'm impressed! The handbooks are well written. As much as I love Gentoo, FreeBSD is winning the competition quickly.

Great job to the developers! :beergrin

[graudeejs]

he he he.
I was Gentoo user 2 years ago :)
when i 1st tried FreeBSD... there were some problems that sopped me from keeping it.
With release 6.2 I became regular FreeBSD user.

Once you try FreeBSD, you get addicted (it's better than drugs and alcohol).
You may uninstall it and put your old OS back, but you will be back to stay sooner or later

Because it's so natural

[donald1000]

I just want to say: This is a great community, and FreeBSD is a fantastic OS! Thank you for this cool project!!

[vdvluc]

Hi all,

Just registered here.

Greetings,

[mjkerpan]

Hi. I'm Mike and I'm currently downloading FreeBSD 7.2 in order to have a real UNIX experience (and also to put that unused sinkhole of space that is my current Windows partition to better use)

I'm sure I'll need plenty of help (I've been coddled by YaST in SuSE for almost 10 years, after all), so I'll just hoin the forums now while the DVD ISO slowly trickles onto my hard drive...

[hitest]

he he he.
I was Gentoo user 2 years ago :)
when i 1st tried FreeBSD... there were some problems that sopped me from keeping it.
With release 6.2 I became regular FreeBSD user.

Once you try FreeBSD, you get addicted (it's better than drugs and alcohol).
You may uninstall it and put your old OS back, but you will be back to stay sooner or later

Because it's so natural

I'm a Slackware user and a happy BSD user. I've been using FreeBSD since 5.x. I'm liking FreeBSD 7.2 a lot. I still have much to learn, but, am enjoying the ride. Agreed. FreeBSD is very addictive indeed.

[rael]

Hello!

[vivek]

Once you try FreeBSD, you get addicted (it's better than drugs and alcohol).

Heh.. good god you left sex out of it ;)

[user_not_expert]

Hi everyone, these forums seem a cool space, with plenty of seriously knowlegeable support. I've been running a collection of desktop computers for years with a mixture of Win and Linux but I just bought a eeepc and wanted at least one realy secure os on it so I thought I'd try Unix at last. This pc is currently running WinXP, Ubu Studio, PC-BSD and Toutou and I hope to put osX and Haiku on as well. Must say, as a first time user, I'm well impressed, this is one os that stays. Congratulations to all of you who have made it this way.

[desnudopenguino]

Hey everybody! I started using PC-BSD about 3 years ago (coming from Windows), mainly because it seemed to be not linux (I was always puzzled/scared by the fact that there's 500000000 distros of linux), but still free. I set up a file server to mess around with pretty easily to store all my multimedia so I could access it from my laptop in my apartment. After that I was hooked. Then I wanted to learn how stuff under the hood worked, so I installed FreeBSD. A few years & a few updates later, I'm still loving it. I recently discovered the awesome user base here on the forums & mailing lists, after spending a while just surfing the net looking for information & reading the book, Absolute BSD. The community here is the best I've seen! Rock on!

Bucky

[GOFree]

Hi, I am new here.

I am curious about FreeBSD. I have been using linux for a couple of years and have heard good things about the BSDs. I thought I would give it a try.

So far, so good... Haven't found any big difference yet, but still just getting started.

[aragon]

Welcome to the greener pasture. :)

[estrabd]

Hi, I am new here.

I am curious about FreeBSD. I have been using linux for a couple of years and have heard good things about the BSDs. I thought I would give it a try.

So far, so good... Haven't found any big difference yet, but still just getting started.

The big difference comes from the fact that FreeBSD is a complete and integrated OS, not a distribution using some mix/matched stuff.

[CodeBlock]

Alright, my turn I guess. I started using FreeBSD about 3 weeks ago, after deciding that it was time for change from my previous Linux boxen. I am 17 years old, an amateur radio operator, a php, ruby, and some perl- programmer, and after high school, plan to major in either Computer Networking or CS.

I absolutely love FreeBSD so far, and it feels like...home to me. It's great, the community is great, ports are great, the documentation is great, the hardware support is great...just all around, I love it.

[rturja]

Greetings from Finland - the country where only media approved opensource OS is Linux :P

I've been FreeBSD user since 4.x days, although I'm not a "true believer", machines at home run mix of Windows, MSDOS, IRIX and AmigaOS in addition of the FreeBSD boxes - each OS having their use.

I just found out about the forums today morning, by accident, and can't but say that having these in addition of the mailing lists is a good thing indeed!

[CodeBlock]

I just found out about the forums today morning, by accident, and can't but say that having these in addition of the mailing lists is a good thing indeed!

One of the many great things about FreeBSD, the availability of support. Mailing lists, IRC (though unofficial), the Forums, and of course Google. :)

[copypaiste]

...and of course Google. :)
Yeah! Google (http://www.google.com/bsd) rocks! :P

[krynn]

long time freebsd admin/user/lover~

[actionM]

Hey! I'm new. I'm sure to have plenty questions just as soon as freeBSD is done installing. :)

I've been using various Linux distro's for 4yrs but mostly I use Debian. I love Debian but I keep having issues with it so here I am.

Good job on the freeBSD handbook. I would have never figured out the slice thing without it lol.

[absolutezero1287]

Hello all. I'm new to FreeBSD so I joined this forum.

I'm currently a Linux user and I've used Ubuntu, Debian, Archlinux, Linux From Scratch (painful), and a plethora of other distros. I currently use Ubuntu for day to day stuff since I haven't fully dived into FreeBSD other than having it installed.

Why I'm switching to FreeBSD:
There seems to be a lack of standardization with Linux based operating systems. With FreeBSD everything seems really well defined. I'm not quite sure how to explain it better. I've toyed around with FreeBSD in a vm until I installed it last night. All that's left is to set up my swap space to be shared between Linux and FreeBSD, set up X and Xmonad, add my user to some groups, roll my own kernel, install some needed software, and that's about it. I might even end up using FreeBSD solely on my machine. I could rant for hours about things that I think are wrong with Linux and the GPL in general but that's a can of worms that I don't wish to open.

A little about me:

I'm a 21 (going on 22) year old software engineering major and surgical technologist. I'm currently studying for my certification so I can work at a hospital and pay for college.

I started college life with hopes of studying medicine when all along I should've been studying computer science. I took a break from university to study surgical technology and discovered that I don't really like working in the operating room but oh, well "stuff" happens.

Anywho, I'm glad to be here. I'll make sure to google, man <command>, and read the fine manual before bugging you guys with questions.

Cheers!

[Penel]

Hello FreeBSD users/members �e

[Penel]

I finally made the switch to FreeBSD from Linux and after installing BASH. I already feel at home �e

[SirDice]

Welcome to the club :beergrin

[dsrd]

New to FreeBSD, more familiar with Linux. I'm enjoying learning about FreeBSD, but have far to go. :D

[Purple_Q]

Hello all!
I'm old school, so I feel if i'm joining a community, I could at least introduce myself :)

My name is Queue Danilov (hackers comin' after me?)
I'm just a regular user, not a systems admin, IT guy, or anyone nifty like that. In fact, my living is made off of doing floors (scrubbers, buffers, strip, wax, etc) and occasionally cleaning some crappers, all for, well, a large retail chain we all know.

I've recently come over to BSD after 8 years or thereabouts from Slackware. My curiosity for the system that claims to be true Unix has me intrigued, if not in love.

I have to be honest in saying i'll likely be one asking more questions than answering them because i'm not a super-tech. I know nothing about networking and security other than what DHCP is and how to fire it up for my given interface, although I love the console and using ncurses based software, I've never used nor know what grep is. I am however used to scooting around in my filesystem, executing either sudo commands or going su, mounting and unmounting things etc via command line because Slack teaches you these things. I love VIM. If I need or want X, I switch back and forth between Windowmaker and a tricked out TWM, play alot of games via emulators (old school consoles and such), and make stuff with GIMP.

There ya have me in a nutshell. I'm just a user, perhaps somewhere in or near the power-user arena on a good day? The install and getting accustomed to FreeBSD thus far has been quite a pain, since it's all spanking new. Love the Handbook though, by far the most superior documentation i've ever seen on a distro / system yet. I've read a good number of articles and such on how much better organized and efficient the core system of BSD is compared to the GNU Linux kernel. I've built my own kernel for years, so no doubt i'm aching to jump into that as soon as is possible.

It is my pleasure to meet all of you. I hope someday i'm as proficient in BSD land as most of you folks probably are :stud

..and by the way, does this "article" hold any truth?
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/computers/why_BSD_is_better_than_Linux/

Take care all.
--Q

[ocean]

hello :)
i used linux for 3 years, last year i've been tempted to use freebsd 7.0 (or 7.2) and it was going fine (just not as smooth as my favourite linux distro), but the xorg 7.4 update broke up everything :P
i've tried again with 8.0 and i'm positively impressed :)

regards
ocean

[pmg]

Hi all,

After a great many years of Windows, and about 6 of Debian: here I am!

[pedro@two /usr/home/pedro]$ uname -a
FreeBSD two.local 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

I installed FreeBSD last Saturday, have been configuring it and mostly testing things out.

My objective is to replace the running Debian with FreeBSD. This machine I'm on now has been off for a long time. It was my Windows fallback; I never needed it and only used it for real work (hmmm ... browsing) before I put X11 on the Debian LOL.
I'm pretty sure moving from Debian to FreeBSD will be easier than when I moved from Windows to Debian.

Next step (not immediate, I'm having fun playing around, and Debian is working great): compiling a personalized kernel ...

[elBoo]

Oh well, got to brake the rules and introduce myself - bored Ubuntu (ex)user downloading FreeBSD 8.0 :i

[Purple_Q]

Is a majority of your linux experience Ubuntu?
If so, let me just tell you this. I come from a long Slackware background. Real comfy in the console and with linux kernel, and I had a hell of a time figuring out how BSD works; just getting used to where things are, etc. The FreeBSD Handbook is critical, it answers alot of questions and solves a lot of basic user-end problems (for example, when I first fired up X, I had no mouse or keyboard, but the handbook showed me how to set it up.) Refer to it often.

The people here seem truly decent, and are willing to help. If you find yourself struggling with stuff and have no answers in the handbook, someone here can getcha going. The administrator is a bit particular, likes to keep the place clean & orderly. It's an excellent forum.

If you have a long linux history, maybe it won't seem intimidating or anything, but it is very different, and absolutely worth the learning curve. I don't forsee myself firing up a linux distro again anytime soon ;)
Good luck and welcome. FreeBSD will grow on you.
--Q

[viking]

... and finally I'm here.

Just a few words about me...

I'm an Engineering student at the University of Udine.
I'm 24. I've started working on my father's pc when I was 9, using MS-DOS and Windows 3.1.
In 2004 I tried my first Linux distribution (Mandrake Linux) then, after some advices, I began using Debian (3.1 if I remember correctly).
My first *BSD was NetBSD/i386 in 2007, followed by NetBSD/sparc64 (on my Sun Ultra 5), then by OpenBSD/sparc64 and, last but not least, FreeBSD/i386.
At the moment I'm using Debian "Squeeze" (testing) on my laptop, triple-booting with Windows XP and FreeBSD 8.0 using GRUB.

I'm having some problems with FreeBSD on my laptop (Acer Aspire 1601LC, quite old, but still enough for my needs), but I'm quite sure I'll find what is wrong (at least I hope that), maybe with a little help from experienced users or developers.: OO

... and... it's enough for now.

Bye

[pkhtut]

Hi all,

I'm new to FreeBSD. I'm just a user in Linux/Unix world. I'm now using Debian GNU/Linux for a year, before Debian, I used Ubuntu and Fedora.
My first impression for FreeBSD were FreeBSD.org website and Handbook. I have never tried yet another *BSD system except FreeBSD. Generally I can tell "I like FreeBSD".
Right now I could not switch completely to FreeBSD from Debian because I'm neither a geek nor super-user.
So Debian GNU/Linux is on my 1st machine and FreeBSD is on my 2nd machine. :)

regards,
Phone Htut

[graudeejs]

There is no Yet another BSD....
This only applies to GNU/Linux (mostly Ubuntu)

[pkhtut]

There is no Yet another BSD....
This only applies to GNU/Linux (mostly Ubuntu)
I mean for another *BSD system is like NetBSD, OpenBSD. :)

[Zare]

Hi pkhtut,

FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are three different operating systems spawned from same code base with occasional code sharing nowadays.

Things are not like in Linux world...Linux distributions share the same kernel and same userland, but differently configured and with different auxiliary tools like package managers, etc...BSD systems have all different kernels and different userlands.

For instance, AIX and HP-UX are both based on USV (Unix System 5), but are fundamentally different.

[pkhtut]

Hi Zare,
Thank you for your explain.

regards,

[nestux]

Hello,

Im a Linux user for almost 5 years now and I never try FreeBSD before until a few a days ago.

My opinion? FreeBSD rocks! its a very solid and secure system. Im reading the handbook and is a very nice book because i can put my system ready only with this document and with Linux i have to read 3 or 4 docs to fix something.

I want learn more, so i decide make a count here to learn and share what i know. Thank you very much :)

Btw, sorry for my English.

[vigol]

Hi forum.
I'm here for last two week, but I found this thread this morning (4:00AM).
I'm glad to see a FreeBSD Dedicated Forum.
And I'm so happy that there's no [Linux] / [alt *BSD forks].
10 Top Worst Idea of the Year:
1- Forks (When parent can be improved)
2- Linux (When There's MS Windows)
3- MINIX for Learning OS Internal (When We have FBSD)
4- USB MODEMS (I'm a 8PinFan)
5- GNOME (When There's KDE)
6- GCC (We need a Native FreeBSD BSD-Licence compiler/library)
7- Dual Boot (FBSD is my Workstation)
8- Mono/DoTNet (crawling in MSDN)
9- snd_hda (Unfortunately, I have one)
10- GPL/LGPL/...same... - Frankly, These are real enemy of
* Open Software Improvements
* Time is gold
* *nix-like development
+ *nix-like could be a real and powerful client/server/workstaion, something like windows, but this GNU/GPL/LGPL start a childhood crazy game (I'm a real child) that wasting time/energy/Intelligence of many outstanding developers in a Virtual n-Dimention Endless Fractal.

[MannyNix]

Hello all. It's great to have an official FreeBSD forum. Good job!
I've used this nice OS before, I even played doom3 on it in '04 but I still have lots to learn. I'm more familiar with Slackware Linux and Gentoo, I've been learning OpenBSD and PF lately and I decided to run FreeBSD too.
Keep up the good work!

[Laurent]

Hello there.

I thought it's a fine idea to introduce myself since I haven't done that. I'm 17 going on 18 (like the Sound of Music, indeed) and don't do anything worth mentioning.
My computer experiences started with windows 95 to windows XP.
When I got my own PC, the first thing I did was examining how it worked. I'm fascinated by how things work, how they are designed to use, why they are designed in a particular way, etc.
But soon I discovered something new: it was called Linux, it looked like it has been having a transcendence sexual relationship with penguins and it had all my attention.
Then, I had to try all the different flavors, as a result, I have 32 discs with different OS'es (Linux distro's, FreeBSD, Plan 9 and OpenSolaris) and I have tried all of them.
I like Fedora and Arch Linux the most, but nowadays, and definitely with version 8, FreeBSD is the keeper. I just love it. Using it makes me feeling sort of high.
However, to be honest, Plan 9 smells like an even bigger mushroom, but that one isn't very usable for daily use to me.
I've also discovered how effective the port system works, a broken port yesterday, is already repaired be today. I'm impressed.

[Purple_Q]

Greets and welcome.
You know, I checked out Plan 9 online once, never tried to fire it up or anything. What exactly is it supposed to be? Seems like more a server deal than a desktop, since it has no video playback capability, no web browsers, etc. and a bunch of network tools that is all stuff well over my head.

Depending on your geekdom tastes though, they sure make it look sexy.
I did boot up a USB version of DEXos yesterday though (dex4u.com) Funny idea.

But anyway, does Plan 9 have any practical use for the regular desktop user?
--Q

[fronclynne]

But anyway, does Plan 9 have any practical use for the regular desktop user?

Isn't it the Spiritual successor to Multics, that obnoxiously do-everything operating system that lead to Unix being written? Anyway, most of the useful features have been ported (shells/rc & umm . . . well, editors/wily if you insist). I don't know, though, it always struck me as an embarrassingly naive model based around the concept of "Yeah, but wouldn't it be even better if we took the more obtuse aspects of Unix and made them unfathomable?"

[bodhi]

Hi.
Looking forward to trying freebsd this weekend for the first time.
I have used various linuxes for the past 5 years.

I cannot seem to add a forum avatar. I'll assume the feature requires some determined number of posts.

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

Hi.
Looking forward to trying freebsd this weekend for the first time.
I have used various linuxes for the past 5 years.

I cannot seem to add a forum avatar. I'll assume the feature requires some determined number of posts.

Good luck. Yes, you need to be a Regular member to be able to edit posts and customize your settings. Refer this (http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=15342&postcount=6).

[BrainDamage]

Hi,

my name is Malte and I'm new to FreeBSD. I am a network administrator and I have to work with Debian and CISCO. I want to migrate some servers and my private computers to FreeBSD. So I might have some questions.

The last few days I installed a test-server Fujitsu TX 200-S4 with a lot of XEONs ;) and I gained my first experiences with the ports-system, portsnap updates, rc.conf etc. Quite a lot of fun!

My personal computer is also ready now. I've got a working gnome-environment with nvidia-support :) My first question about the soundsystem will follow soon ...

Have a nice day / evening

Malte

[vigol]

I want to migrate some servers and my private computers to FreeBSD.

Welcome to wise life

[hellknight]

Hi,I'm from India, I've been experimenting with GNU/Linux since last 6 years,in fact i've tri-booted my system with FreeBSD 8.0 X64, Fedora 12 X64, Windows 7.. btw.. My name is Tarun.

[paean]

Hello everyone
I'm newbie and i'm glad to join us);)

Welcome!

Hi,

my name is Malte and I'm new to FreeBSD. I am a network administrator and I have to work with Debian and CISCO. I want to migrate some servers and my private computers to FreeBSD. So I might have some questions.

The last few days I installed a test-server Fujitsu TX 200-S4 with a lot of XEONs ;) and I gained my first experiences with the ports-system, portsnap updates, rc.conf etc. Quite a lot of fun!

My personal computer is also ready now. I've got a working gnome-environment with nvidia-support :) My first question about the soundsystem will follow soon ...

Have a nice day / evening

Malte

Welcome! People with an administrative background in linux generally enrich the discussion here. I hope you find the culture here to be a positive step up. ( ;

Hi,I'm from India, I've been experimenting with GNU/Linux since last 6 years,in fact i've tri-booted my system with FreeBSD 8.0 X64, Fedora 12 X64, Windows 7.. btw.. My name is Tarun.

Welcome Tarun! You'll find plenty of other people here multi-booting for a variety of reason. Be free to share and gather knowledge with others on the forums.

[mbruins]

Hello,

My name is Marcel. I'm currently working for the Ministry of Defence in the Netherlands. I have been lurking this forum for quite some time now so, I thought it would be appropriate to introduce myself.
A couple years ago I started with FreeBSD. A year after that I switched to Debian/Ubuntu for about 5 years. Now I would like to go back to my UNIX roots and switch completely to the much more mature and better documented Freebsd (IMO).

[amrmesh]

Hi everybody
My name is Maseood Raisi, I'm new to freeBSD and actually UNIX like systems.
I was using windows for years and now I'm trying to migrate to UNIX like and open source systems.
at first I choose Linux and I use it for about 1 year (Fedora), and now I find freeBSD as another UNIX like and open source operating system, so I'm trying to learn It too.
I study computer hardware and I'm interested in Operating System and Networking, I'm trying to learn more about operating systems and how they work and what I must to learn to develop and distribute them...
now I install freeBSD x64 and fedora 12 x64 GNU/Linux and Windows 7 x64 on my laptop, but I have a lot of problem with freeBSD and linux and programing for them.

I hope I can find some people here that can help and guide me to reach this goal;)...

[wasa]

So here am I!
back after 2 years, R8.runes well reminds me happy 4.X times:D

greeting s Philipp

[FreeJX]

Hi, all

New guy just come in...:e

[DavidMcCann]

I'm another newcomer. I'm trying BSD largely out of curiosity. My normal OS is Linux, and before that I had QDOS at home and MSDOS at work. I can also just about remember CP/M and OS9, which really dates me. The one OS I don't know is Windows, which must count as some sort of achievement!

[volatilevoid]

Well, I think I'm also contributing to this thread. ;)

I'm not so new to FreeBSD, I already was using 6.0 - 6.2 on my laptop some time ago, using mainly Windows on my desktop. :x Eventually went on to Linux (Arch, to be exact) but now I'm returning (or at least trying to if the NVIDIA driver lets me). Tried 9.0-CURRENT first but it wasn't running too well for me so I'm giving 8.0-STABLE a try (I need TRIM otherwise I'd be happy with RELEASE).

BTW, is the announcement of Xen Dom0 in 9.0 for real? Would be really nice.

[bloodtears]

Hello!

My computer used to be running CentOS and recently I have just switched to FreeBSD. Although I am still trying to get everything to work (I'm almost there already...), I must say I am beginning to like FreeBSD :) In my opinion, I feel it is quite robust.

Well, I still have another computer running Windows, and unfortunately I cannot really do away with it as I need their MS Office for editing and opening documents for my work :( (openoffice may cause some format misaligmnment from the original which is undesirable when clients are involved :( )

Guess it is going to take some time before others start to appreciate the beauty of open-source programs ya? And it is tough to persuade people from using a different program (for e.g. FreeBSD) when they are getting comfortable with the working current; well at least I have been telling my family and friends about my experiences with FreeBSD (and even CentOS in the past) but no one really bothers haha

[lme@]

@bloodtears:
For MS Office you can use Bordeaux (http://www.bordeauxgroup.com/)

[Beastie]

Or emulators/wine.

[vrachil]

Forum newbie arrives in 3..2..1...


Greetings everyone

[samob]

Hi ppl, this is my first post. I'm Samo from Slovenia/Ljubljana.
I love FreeBSD, have been using it for several years for home backup/web/plone (http://python.rula.org/) server. Really glad this forum is up so i can even easyer find stuff that bugs me =)

Regards \o/

[nekoexmachina]

Hi! Mikle, Russia. Linux user since late 2007, bsd user since late 2009. 2nd grade student of ifmo university.

[ah7013]

Hi, my name is Andrew Hill and I'm from New Zealand (That small country near Australia). I am 15 years of age and a student. Been a Linux user since 2005 starting with Ubuntu Linux. Tried FreeBSD last year as a NTP time server instead of one of the Linux distros which I used to deploy all my virtual servers on and I just fell in love with FreeBSD. Wiped Ubuntu Linux off my old Laptop and installed FreeBSD with X11 and GNOME. FreeBSD is so fast and stable compared to any Linux I tried :e Currently in the process of converting all my virtual servers from Ubuntu/Debian to FreeBSD :e

[daelious]

Hello!

After a long pilgrimage between open source OS's I have returned to using FreeBSD. There doesn't seem to be a better OS out there. Anyway, I'm glad to have come back and see that the project has a forum! :D In fact all of FreeBSD seems to have improved greatly since I last used it (6.0).

Thanks,
Keith

[Aaron30]

Regards to all from Aaron

[Blex]

Hi all,newbie FreeBSD user.;)
cant wait til i became a professional FreeBSD user. :stud
Thanks All

[rajoo6]

I am an electrical engineer. I also do blogging in various topics like health, gadgets, product reviews, technology, environment, etc. Will some one explain to me about freeBSD in layman's language? Thanks for your time.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3159/oface.jpg

[SirDice]

Hi and welcome.

Start here: Handbook: Chapter 1 Introduction (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction.html)

[DutchDaemon]

I am an electrical engineer. I also do blogging in various topics like health, gadgets, product reviews, technology, environment, etc. Will some one explain to me about freeBSD in layman's language? Thanks for your time.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3159/oface.jpg

Your signup email includes a lot of information, and so do the Sticky topics in the subforums.

[dennylin93]

I am an electrical engineer. I also do blogging in various topics like health, gadgets, product reviews, technology, environment, etc. Will some one explain to me about freeBSD in layman's language? Thanks for your time.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3159/oface.jpg

Take a look at the entry in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD).

[BeastieBoy]

I'm a Debian user on my server since 2006. Prior to that I used to play with various distros such as LFS, SourceMage, Gentoo, Ubuntu.

My rented server is running Xen+Debian and will soon expire. As I wanted to rent another one, I decided to also try out a new OS. FreeBSD seemed interesting, so I jumped on the train.

[avkhatri]

Hello everyone! I joined a few days ago, and found this thread today. I'm 18, I've used Linux for roughly three years as a desktop OS. I thought I would start learning about Freebsd and Unix to give me something to do during my free time this summer. Switching to Freebsd was a fantastic decision :), It's fun setting up a desktop from scratch, I'm learning a lot and I've gotten a lot of help from this forum.

[spencer3096]

Hello, everyone.

I just stumbled across this thread, so I figured that I should introduce myself. My name is Will and I got my start with the *NIX way of doing things in 2004 with RedHat Linux. I've since played around with a few Linux distos (mostly Debian based) when I found out about FreeBSD from a Wikipedia article. I took a networking class last summer where my professor preferred everyone to use Fedora 10 (with a mandatory fresh install), but the instability of the system gave me the idea to put FreeBSD 7.2 on my workstation instead. I was immediately impressed with the design -- especially with the ports system. I've since put 8.1-RELEASE on 2 home machines -- one for general desktop use, and the other for use as a firewall and print server.

[Vitiate]

Hey guys!

I thought I'd introduce myself, my names "Matt" in the "other world" But "ViT / Vitiate" in the cyberworld.

I've been using Linux for sometime now off and on mainly for interest but never get hooked for personal reasons. I'm totally drawn in by FreeBSD and it's design principals and I'm now trying to get my feet well and truly wet.

So yeah, "HI!"

[fx4]

My intro. I've used FreeBSD for half my life. Not kidding. I just graduated college with a bachelor's in information systems management. Before that, I was in the Marines. They will be paying me to get A+ and CCNA, after which I will be looking for a private-sector job.

[SENECA]

Hello.

Start this issue to introduce myself.

I am an indefatigable fan of FreeBSD who lives in Spain (European Union), and hopes to learn a lot in this forum.
My mother tongue is Spanish, so sorry if my English is not quite correct.
Someone thought that because I go to a forum on FreeBSD in Spanish, but no Spanish on FreeBSD forums worthwhile.

I said, I am SENECA.

Thanks for wasting your time reading this in my bad English.


Bye bye.

P.D. Part of this Mesaj has been prepared by an automatic translator.

[samob]

Welcome to this forum Seneca. Like you, lots of us others have different mother language then English, so welcome to the FreeBSD family ;) There is no need to appologise, your English is quite good (or is Google translator became better hehe).
Best regards from Slovenia

Hello.

Start this issue to introduce myself.

I am an indefatigable fan of FreeBSD who lives in Spain (European Union), and hopes to learn a lot in this forum.
My mother tongue is Spanish, so sorry if my English is not quite correct.
Someone thought that because I go to a forum on FreeBSD in Spanish, but no Spanish on FreeBSD forums worthwhile.

I said, I am SENECA.

Thanks for wasting your time reading this in my bad English.


Bye bye.

P.D. Part of this Mesaj has been prepared by an automatic translator.

[SENECA]

Ok samob.

Bye bye.

[Romanrp]

I began using linux about 9 months ago but ubuntu didn't do it for me so I distrohopped until i found Arch, now I am on freebsd and using it for my desktop. I am just an average Joe who just browses the web, listens to music and watch films. Whoever said that freebsd isn't good and suited for that is either an idiot or never used freebsd.
My goals are to learn a bit more about unix and freebsd.
Rock on freebsd!!!! :)

[rstrcogburn]

Hello forums! and hello Dutch Daemon(I've seen you a lot while setting up my box). A little bit about myself. I'm 25 and live in Tulsa,OK USA. I just set up 8.1 with ZFS on my MSI Wind U100. Runs great. I'm also very active on #!CrunchbangLinux Forums but am a FreeBSD user now. Thanks for all the forums posts that made my transition easier. Looking forward to being here with you guys.

[ronnylov]

Hello!

My name is Ronny and I live in Sweden. I decided to switch from OpenSolaris to FreeBSD because I wanted a free alternative to the discontinued OpenSolaris to be used as OS on my ZFS file server. I was delighted to find this forum and I have got quite a lot help here by following the threads in the forums.

My file server is now running FreeBSD 8.1 AMD64 and everything is fine. I do also play a little with Linux on my desktop and in VirtualBox. But my main desktop OS is Windows 7. As I find FreeBSD interesting I might try it on my desktop too.

[DLichti]

Hi everyone out there,
I'm from south-western Germany and was using Windows since my first Computer, and still am.
After some unsuccessful attempts to switch to different Linux as Desktop, I'm now on FreeBSD for different server machines and trying to get into it.

Lichti

[dilshan]

hi all the people out there...!!! greetings from sri lanka

me have a system with WinXP/Fedora 11... what else, i am a college student :stud

going to download FreeBSD (choose it after hearing that OpenBSD lags behind others) , it will take at least 5 days to download though

tc

[JuniperSprouts]

I can't even get X started now!

I hope to soon be a FreeBSD elitist!

[Crivens]

Greetings!

After some time of passive reading I now finally made up my mind to register me here.
While reading the forum is very interesting and also fun, I hope it can be even more interesting and more fun when actively posting.

As for my background, I am using these digital time vampires since 8 bit were enough for us, most of the time avoiding to give money to Bill. But when you buy a laptop, you sometimes have to pay that tax. The first UNIX I had for myself was from the Gateway CD, later I used Linux for some time, got fed up and now returned to *BSD.

I would now like take the opportunity to say sorry to the Dutch Daemon, in advance, for me not using all the tags in the coming weeks or months. I know it will happen, but I assure you it is not with intention.

Hope to read you!

[DutchDaemon]

So long as you write "I" instead of "i" from now on, I may cut you some slack, but really don't count on it. If you know the rules, post by the rules. Welcome.

[Crivens]

Well put, thank you Sir. I will come back after some postings to iron out this little mistake.
;)

[koma]

Hi all, my name is Andrea.
I'm new to the FreeBSD forum but quietly "used" to the Unix World.
I've used for many time RedHat, Suse, Debian, Gentoo and now FreeBSD.

I'd like to say hello to everyone there.. so

Hello :)

Andrea K.

[rbelk]

Welcome Koma, you will enjoy using and learning FreeBSD with the help of the users here. I can say that without a doubt that the guru's of this forum are awesome and full of, well, knowledge! :e

[vogelius]

hi all, I am FreeBSD newbie but not Linux. My intention is to learn and contribute what I can. I hope to be well received and excuse me if my English is not good. Greetings to all.

[grigorovl]

Greetings everyone!

I am happy to announce that I am finally and completely GNU/Linux free! My web server at home has been running FreeBSD for quite some time now and I finally got FreeBSD on my notebook as well (Thinkpad X60, I will be writing an article on my blog on getting the things working). Make things have changed making FreeBSD a reliable day-to-day OS and I am happy, as I said, to be GNU/Linux free.

[ly860130]

Hello,everyone:

I'm a newcomer from China. Thanks for the rapid development of the Internet, I can meet the non-Windows OSs such as CentOS & FreeBSD, though I'm not familiar with them now, yet. Actually, I am glad to meet you all :P

By watching the online courses videos, I get to know the powerful OS - CentOS. You all know that in most of the counries Windows is the most used operating system in desktop environment. Most of the people only use the Windows, they even don't know other OS. But by using Windows, I found many low-layer knowledge of the hardware is not unseen for most of the people. It seems that Microsoft has supplied a very convenient OS for this world, but the videos tell me there are some more better OSs in the world. Like Linux, FreeBSD & SUN solaris, they are all very popular.

Though learning the new OS may encounter difficulties, I will learn it continuously until succeed. Chinese lunar new year is approaching, I wish you everyone happy new year! :)

Forgiving my poor English,see you :P

[nalaren]

Hello there - I am new here and I am looking forward to nice conversations and useful information.