@stefano
First tech job in 2000/2001 was local isp. We had a FreeBSD shell server for IRC bots. I’d already been exposed to IRIX and was hacking on Slackware and redhat, but the ports tree really was an eye opener.
Was the beginning of a long relationship where I daily drive it on my main workstations and laptops, not to mention my personal servers and on AWS for work.
@pete_wright@stefano second real tech job I had was ~2008, a local ISP. I was familiar with Gentoo and knew portage was inspired by FreeBSD ports tree. I also used FreeBSD + ZFS for a development server at old job because we didn’t have any extra Sun boxes available.
This ISP used FreeBSD heavily, I became the resident expert. Never looked back.
@stefano
First tech job in 2000/2001 was local isp. We had a FreeBSD shell server for IRC bots. I’d already been exposed to IRIX and was hacking on Slackware and redhat, but the ports tree really was an eye opener.
Was the beginning of a long relationship where I daily drive it on my main workstations and laptops, not to mention my personal servers and on AWS for work.
@pete_wright @stefano second real tech job I had was ~2008, a local ISP. I was familiar with Gentoo and knew portage was inspired by FreeBSD ports tree. I also used FreeBSD + ZFS for a development server at old job because we didn’t have any extra Sun boxes available.
This ISP used FreeBSD heavily, I became the resident expert. Never looked back.