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version called Slackware back in the 1994-1995 timeframe. At the
time, a 486 CPU and 8 MB of RAM with a 2GB hard drive was overkill for
my command line oriented dial-up router. Over the years I switched
from one various flavor of Linux to another including a very nicely done
product called Knoppix.
In the 1999 - 2000 timeframe, I was introduced to FreeBSD by a co-worker
(now friend) named Stephen Comoletti at the regional ISP called DelaNET.
I took two (2) boot floppy disks home one night and in 8 hours over a
28.8kbps dial-up modem (US Robotics V.Everything), I had gone from
floppy to full blown UNIX installation including a custom kernel
recompile and now I was hooked! In the next year or so, I had the
pleasure of looking over the shoulder (and working with) Stephen (a
truly brilliant UNIX Admin) on no less than four (4) major FreeBSD
projects: 1.) A 15,000 user email system and 2.) A 35,000 RADIUS system
and 3.) An enterprise monitoring solution called Nagios and 4) An
enterprise DNS solution with SQL backend for several hundred domains
with thousands of hosts. One thing became clear to me, FreeBSD is
an enterprise class operating system. Many product lines got it's
roots from FreeBSD including: F5 load balancers, Juniper Routers and
even the current MAC/OSX!
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