Greetings and Salutations

[Rick N]

 Welcome, and good luck in all your endevours.
 I could never get my head around which UNIX is the real UNIX, yes Linux is a bastardized-UNIX, but hey, in the real world,
its whatever gets you through the nite. AT&T/BSD, later Sun, later, ... unix(OS-wise) really is a beautiful mystery wrapped up in an enigma 
that in itself, is becoming less, and less invisible everyday. and thats good.
 "Security, Performace, and/or Automation", from an admin's perspective, you can only pick really "1" of those.
When redhat/RHEL went the IBM dodo bird way, we simply moved (ALL of our web-servers') over to "CentOS"-linux.
 But for security, it has primarily been OpenBSD, with a smattering of FreeBSD for specific/historical apps.
Lately, OpenSolaris, becuase of ZFS, playin' around with this idea or that idea,..., but who knows?
 Unfortunately, I'm not a developer by any means, i had worked primarily in production server environments.

 I personally wish FreeBSD would be given much more attention than Linux, but I'm just an admin who had to follow orders.

 I'm sure any help FreeBSD-wise will always be welcome though, so HI, and have fun.
:)

Rick.

> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:20:37 -0600
> From: pit at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us
> To: freebsd-chat at freebsd.org
> Subject: Greetings and Salutations
> 
> I've recently downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE and am hopefully going to
> have it up and running on my computer (a different machine then the one
> I'm writing from) by the end of next week so I thought I'd introduce
> myself and tell a little bit about myself.
> 
> I started using Linux (I know, I know, FreeBSD is Unix) around 1997,
> 1998 (I forget exactly when) with RedHat 6.2 on a IBM PC330 (90MHz
> original Pentium overclocked to 100MHz, couple hundred megs of RAM,
> 500MB primary hard disk drive (later on I stuck in a second hard drive
> even thought the computer I was using didn't really have a place for
> it)). It wasn't pretty, but that was my first real taste of Linux.
> 
> I've run web servers for my own personal use and was always pleased with
> the results, ease of configuration and setup, and overall feeling that
> even though I'm exposing part of my computer to the Internet, that I'm
> still limiting the amount of damage that can be done because of other
> steps I've taken to insure that I remain safe.
> 
> Since then I've used various distros (sticking mainly with RedHat until
> 8.0, just before it become Fedora). My favorite one being Gentoo.
> 
> So why have I decided to use FreeBSD? There are several reasons. The
> main one is that I'm constantly looking toward increase my security
> while computing. While there are steps I could take to make the OS I'm
> currently using (MS Windows XP Home), I feel that it's like putting a
> band-aid on gaping wound. It might do some good, but I know it won't
> last for long. Another reason is that I've heard a good friend of mine
> sing the praises of FreeBSD on many fronts (the least of which is
> security).
> 
> I've also run, for a short time, the McMinnville (McMinnville, TN not
> Oregon) Linux and Unix User Group (MC-LUUG). A group I'm looking to
> resurrect as several of my local Facebook friends have expressed
> interest in running at least Linux. Since I also will be returning
> (eventually) to Linux as well as introducing myself to FreeBSD, I
> figured what the hey. At least I can help myself!
> 
> Sorry this is so long, I didn't realize I had so much to say!
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope we get a chance to
> help each other once I get FreeBSD installed.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> PIT
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