Mastodawn

Do you remember your first FreeBSD install?
Many in our community remember when installing an operating system meant waiting on physical media, dial-up downloads, or carefully tested CD distributions, long before pulling source took seconds.

We’d like to hear your story:
• Was your first FreeBSD install from a CD?
• Do you remember your first release?

Share your experience in the comments.

🔗 Wayne Self’s original reflection: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wself_been-thinking-about-how-much-access-to-software-ugcPost-7431565320290619392-RHVM/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD #Community

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Eugene

Feb 25

@FreeBSDFoundation Oh, my first install of #FreeBSD happens at near 2016 or 2017 with 10 or 11 release. Since my laptop doesn't had a CD/DVD reader these times, I used a memstick image with a USB drive.

TUI installer reminded me the #Slackware installer, which was my first Unix-like OS. So, the installation doesn't caused any problems — just read the handbook and use the instructions from it in the comfy console…

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TomAoki

@evgandr @FreeBSDFoundation
My first experience of Linux was Yggdrasil (would be older than Slackware), but it was after my first experience of FreeBSD. And I prefer FreeBSD since then, but Vine Linux told me a lot of "how Japanese input / displaying should be on X11". It helped me configuring Japanese environment on FreeBSD.