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Moar #bsdstart: In 1999, I put #NetBSD on a Mac SE/30 -- It's still my favorite for retro hardware like my Jornadas. I also bought #OpenBSD 2.5 from Theo deRaadt in person at DefCon 7. It was my go-to for servers after that, and OpenBSD has been my primary desktop OS since 2010.
I think I adopted FreeBSD (vs NetBSD) because the kind souls at FreeBSD Mall sent me installation CDs as the author of sed(1). It was difficult to get installation media back then. #bsdstart
#bsdstart IIRC my first BSD experience was on a VAX running 4.1c BSD or 4.2 BSD. Circa 1984 om my first job after college. #oldschool
My #bsdstart was with #openbsd 3.1 looking to replace a Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 at my first job, after that, I installed on my laptop as main OS, never looked back.
Started with SunOS and Ultrix which are both BSD based in the early nineties, started using NetBSD on VAX after a few years on those that could not run Ultrix, still run some NetBSD (but never on x86) #bsdstart
in 1985 or so my friends jordan hubbard (later to make freebsd) and chris seiwald (later to make perforce) had BSD jobs and gave me guest accounts. i then bought a Symmetric 375 from bill jolitz, and wrote Cron. in 1988 went to work at DEC, where BSD's VAXes came from. #bsdstart
Installed a FreeBSD 2.someting in 1995, spent a few years wrangling Linuxes and playing with FreeBSD. Finally found OpenBSD at v2.5 and everything made a lot more sense. Must admit to still herding penguins, beasties + proprietary unixes in addition to puffies though #bsdstart
As a matter of fact I know a lot of switchers from linux to *BSD, while I don't know a single person who did the opposite. #bsdstart
NetBSD 1.5, with 1.6_BETA out, so must have been 2001-2002 time frame. Linux ext2 corrupted all my mbox files and I decided to try something different. OpenBSD did not boot on my hardware, NetBSD did. Realized pkgsrc was neat. Ran it on Sun, DEC and HP boxes. #bsdstart
My #bsdstart was installing NetBSD on an old Cyrix 5x86 machine around 2000/2001. Shortly after I set up a FreeBSD machine to share the dial up Internet in my parents house between my computer and my Dad’s one. I also use the Linux emulation to run an AudioGalaxy client on it.
First UNIX-like OS I tried - Linux Redhat 5.2 Later I grew up, and started hacking FreeBSD 5+ Code quality was so much better… #bsdstart
Working for a small ISP running FreeBSD to power all customer VMs and internal applications/servers. Started with FreeBSD 7 around 2011-ish. #bsdstart
what this means is, i remember how fast 1200 baud modems seemed, compared to 300 baud. and i remember how appreciative i was of the optimizations in vi, emacs, and curses, to make 1200 baud usable. Cron was written on a VT102 connected to a 4BSD NS32016 system. #bsdstart
I wanted to run an IRC server, so I downloaded the IRCd software. It opened on my windows desktop in winrar, and there was no .exe. I asked around, was told to "get a shell account", so I did, on a FreeBSD 2.x machine. #bsdstart
I had some DECStations 5000 running Ultrix 4.3. I migrated the laboratory's mail server to a PC running FreeBSD-3.0 (just released) and the DEC machines to NetBSD. #bsdstart
I love how many #bsdstart stories are basically “Linux became intolerable and BSD got me out of that”.
Worked at infosec startup ("You'll be paid when we start earning money.") back in 2000. Got tired of fighting a buggy RedHat 6.2 box, discovered OpenBSD on the software list at sectools.org. Asked for a spare 486, installed 2.7 on it. #bsdstart
Started with Linux in 2003 a bit by "accident" but FreeBSD came not too far after for hosting various services, with OpenBSD and NetBSD too. Now I both use OpenBSD personally and FreeBSD professionally for developing. If you re masochist you can watch #BSDNow 216 🙂 #bsdstart
There were some really good tweets under #bsdstart hashtag. 👍
I started lurking on the OpenBSD mailing lists in '06/'07, I sent my first trivial kernel diff in '08 which was committed by deraadt@, same year my first port which was tmux, later becoming part of the base system. Got my account in 2012. #bsdstart
Reminds me of the #bsdstart tweets.
I started lurking on the OpenBSD mailing lists in '06/'07, I sent my first trivial kernel diff in '08 which was committed by deraadt@, same year my first port which was tmux, later becoming part of the base system. Got my account in 2012. #bsdstart
I was somehow frustrated with the Linux environment and IT in general until my friend @divinelvcifer showed me the beauty and the power of FreeBSD. I fell in love with it and never did turn back. #bsdstart
My #bsdstart was on #pfsense. I “graduated” to #FreeBSD on #RaspberryPi & #DigitalOcean. Now also running #OpenBSD on #ubnt erl3 & usg.
Started with Linux and a coworker (@perlporter) showed me freebsd!! #bsdstart
I think it was 2004, I have tried about 10 Linux distributions already when a friend gave me a CD with FreeBSD 4.X. I was told this is different, I tried and I never looked back. It is 2018 and FreeBSD is more exciting than ever! #bsdstart
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In early 2000 I tried various BSDs on a number of devices. I chose OpenBSD for my first home server (an old laptop) connected to the Internet, NetBSD for experimenting IPv6 and installation on Windows CE handheld PCs, and I continued to use FreeBSD for work everyday. #bsdstart
Late '90s I got a new job and started using FreeBSD (2.2?) on a daily basis. I was logged in all day and using Emacs + MH-E to read/write emails. Although my first UN*X experience was with Linux (Slackware 2.3/3.0) in 1996, I was gradually shifting gears towards BSDs. #bsdstart
IRC was instrumental in my #bsdstart. Conversations in real time as I was solving problems. Case in point, I'd added a CDROM drive to the system but the device didn't exist. Time to create it. freebsddiary.org/cdrom.txt What important events contributed to your #bsdstart?
Moar #bsdstart: In 1999, I put #NetBSD on a Mac SE/30 -- It's still my favorite for retro hardware like my Jornadas. I also bought #OpenBSD 2.5 from Theo deRaadt in person at DefCon 7. It was my go-to for servers after that, and OpenBSD has been my primary desktop OS since 2010.
I think I adopted FreeBSD (vs NetBSD) because the kind souls at FreeBSD Mall sent me installation CDs as the author of sed(1). It was difficult to get installation media back then. #bsdstart
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