Introduce yourself, tell us who you are and why you chose FreeBSD

drhowarddrfine said:
It's always been a throwaway thread to keep that garbage out of the main forums. It worked for that.
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I'll take this opportunity to say that this is the kind of post the moderators should not tolerate because it clearly contradicts the FreeBSD Community Code of Conduct (https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct/): it is not friendly; it is not welcoming; it is not considerate; it is not respectful; it is not kind to others. Calling all the introductions of so many users garbage is everything but that.
 
meaw229a said:
It's an old thread. I liked it for what it is.
And now it's get used and taken over for more of the AI crap.
Why not start a new AI thread and leave this one alone?
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The mods have joined Alain De Vos's "fun thread" with this one. In my opinion that was a bad decision. Alain De Vos's thread was not about introducing yourself, he just asked "why are you here" (if I'm not misremembering) which allows for many interpretations.
 
AlfredoLlaquet You weren't there and you weren't in on the discussion about its creation back then. I was.
The forum was getting overloaded with people posting intros when they came here. Many of them were just, "Hi!" and then they went away. These would show up everywhere and get in the way of technical questions.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
The mods have joined Alain De Vos's "fun thread" with this one. In my opinion that was a bad decision. Alain De Vos's thread was not about introducing yourself, he just asked "why are you here" (if I'm not misremembering) which allows for many interpretations.
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I fail to see how there can be other interpretations besides a self-introduction. People visit the FreeBSD Forums to mostly ask technical questions about FreeBSD or to ask for pointers to the manuals. Either they say so in the self-introduction, or they head straight to the section of the Forums that has the information needed.

"I'm here today to derive some self-pleasure from reading humanity's take on FreeBSD" would be a pretty sarcastic reply from me.

If there are ways (other than a self-intro) to answer the question "Why are you here" ? (as in, what brings you to the Forums today?), please post examples and explain.
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Sorry, but that goes against the rules of the Forums and the FreeBSD Code of Conduct. No bashing anyone here.

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Looks like someone failed at detecting sarcasm.
 
I’ll bump the thread again since I never introduced myself at the FreeBSD forum.

(Jacked Beastie as the guest announcer introducing me to the podium. **AC/DC - Back in Black playing to my walk out entrance**)

Hey FreeBSD forum my name is Robert. I am not sure how I ended up at the backbone of some of modern technologies most cutting edge and pioneered innovations in the world today, but I think it started out when I was studying civil engineering in undergrad. I realized civil engineering was not for me.

As luck would have it, I discovered the field of data science and all of a sudden technology just made a lot more sense to me from how our world was and is engineered everyday. From highway systems, to weather, to large scale enterprise servers, to our laptops, desktop computers, and everything else in between.

And this continued discovery led me to learning about the early foundations of computing which drew me to the FreeBSD operating system. I was a fish out of water. I will not shy away and say I did not grow up within the Windows operating system ecosystem. Think of it like learning how to play with Lego blocks for the first time.

And suddenly now I study computer science and cybersecurity, work on the coolest technologies on the planet (with strong directions of where these technologies should go or be heading in the future), and meet some of the coolest, brightest people along the way.

Thank you for allowing me to be a part of the storied legend of the FreeBSD project, operating system, and community—and thank you for listening to my TED talk.
 
XigmaNAS introduced me to FBSD.

I have a great admiration for the command line from the first day IBM released the IBMPC.

I paid $2700 with employee discount and still have the system unit and keyboard in my garage attic.

To me, FBSD is the consummate server platform. SAMBA seems to be mature and stable, which is essential for integrating with my windows environment.
 
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