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I remember we were on the same forums with @vermaden about 23 years ago or so. I used FreeBSD actively at the time as my desktop OS(4.5 as I remember). Kudos t

by zenlot 1y ago

I remember we were on the same forums with @vermaden about 23 years ago or so. I used FreeBSD actively at the time as my desktop OS(4.5 as I remember). Kudos to you, you kept using it! I just occasionally install it from time to time, to check how things changed(or not) :) Great memories!

vermaden 1y ago
That is a comment that I did not expected - but its a very welcome one - kudos to You too mate. 23 years ... more then two decades ... crazy. Here are the rest part of the story if You are interested: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/my-freebsd-story/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/my-freebsd-story/ I wonder which path You took ... Linux? Windows? macOS? Something else? Generally I liked FreeBSD that much that I focused entirely on it - and while I needed to work on AIX/Solaris/HP-UX and mostly Linux systems all those years - finally in 2022 I was able to get work that is mostly FreeBSD related ... partly thanks to that blog I started. Kind regards, vermaden
- zenlot 1y ago
  Just read it! I stopped using as my desktop around 2007, but worked with it till 2009, while using mac as desktop. Then did 5 years of AIX and a bit of Solaris. Afterwards, was just Linux. These days my desktop is boring, w11+wsl. Congrats on your job and having FreeBSD at work. Fun fact, while working in a place where we used AIX, we had an incident around 2012, due to some "ancient system running one service", that service was on FreeBSD 2.2.1. Somewhere in my archives, I have a photo of the screen.
  - vermaden 1y ago
    I can relate to that. Do not kill yourself with that W11 setup - if that will make You feel better - I keep W10 gaming rig for more modern games: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/amd-based-freebsd-desktop/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/amd-based-freebsd-... ... and when possible I play the oldschool ones I still love on FreeBSD: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/oldschool-gaming-on-freebsd/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/oldschool-gaming-o... I also signed my son for some early programming lessons ... and yes - that also requires some W10/W11 setup :[ > Somewhere in my archives, I have a photo of the screen. Please share when possible - would love to see that :) I was too young to really work with even FreeBSD 4.x series - as I started in the 'late' 5.4 series. Where do You live BTW? Europe? America? Asia?

by zenlot 1y ago

vermaden 1y ago

That is a comment that I did not expected - but its a very welcome one - kudos to You too mate. 23 years ... more then two decades ... crazy. Here are the rest part of the story if You are interested: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/my-freebsd-story/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/my-freebsd-story/ I wonder which path You took ... Linux? Windows? macOS? Something else? Generally I liked FreeBSD that much that I focused entirely on it - and while I needed to work on AIX/Solaris/HP-UX and mostly Linux systems all those years - finally in 2022 I was able to get work that is mostly FreeBSD related ... partly thanks to that blog I started. Kind regards, vermaden

zenlot 1y ago
Just read it! I stopped using as my desktop around 2007, but worked with it till 2009, while using mac as desktop. Then did 5 years of AIX and a bit of Solaris. Afterwards, was just Linux. These days my desktop is boring, w11+wsl. Congrats on your job and having FreeBSD at work. Fun fact, while working in a place where we used AIX, we had an incident around 2012, due to some "ancient system running one service", that service was on FreeBSD 2.2.1. Somewhere in my archives, I have a photo of the screen.
- vermaden 1y ago
  I can relate to that. Do not kill yourself with that W11 setup - if that will make You feel better - I keep W10 gaming rig for more modern games: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/amd-based-freebsd-desktop/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/amd-based-freebsd-... ... and when possible I play the oldschool ones I still love on FreeBSD: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/oldschool-gaming-on-freebsd/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/oldschool-gaming-o... I also signed my son for some early programming lessons ... and yes - that also requires some W10/W11 setup :[ > Somewhere in my archives, I have a photo of the screen. Please share when possible - would love to see that :) I was too young to really work with even FreeBSD 4.x series - as I started in the 'late' 5.4 series. Where do You live BTW? Europe? America? Asia?