From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 03:30:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DA516A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from praetor.linc-it.com (adsl-068-157-070-217.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [68.157.70.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306FD43F85 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:30:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-212-160-7.jan.bellsouth.net [68.212.160.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by praetor.linc-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A521521C; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:30:21 -0600 (CST) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id BEE7F20F2A; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:30:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:30:18 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: bri an Message-ID: <20031130113018.GR12248@over-yonder.net> References: <20031126232537.24176.qmail@web13704.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031126232537.24176.qmail@web13704.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Linux users X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:30:26 -0000 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:25:37PM -0800 I heard the voice of bri an, and lo! it spake thus: > I am a Work-study at a University. I have allot of > staff using Redhat. I have been working on helping > people move to Freebsd. I have been using it for a two > months. I would love to help in anyway. I am not very > versed in Freebsd, But I know how to RTFM. I can be a > great tester to see what the document needs. Interestingly, I've just been (on and off, in between all that stupid Real Work stuff that interferes) writing something along those lines. Though, it's aimed more at describing some of the underlying philosophical differences, on the theory that once you "get" those, the rest will fall into place easily. In particular, it seems that the whole differentiation between a "base system" and "addon packages" just completely evades Linux users (not surprising, since no such thing exists in the Linux world). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"