Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:29:06 +0200 From: "Jozef Baum" <InfoSol@pandora.be> To: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Trying to keep up in a fast changing world Message-ID: <01bdb5c8$85387bc0$LocalHost@pc3>
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Hello, Yes, yet another newbie who would like to share some first experiences and questions with you. Late May I started with FreeBSD, reading the general information available on www.nl.freebsd.org (the nearest mirror site, as I live in Belgium - please excuse me for my mistakes in English, which is not my native tongue). I was happy to see 2.2.6 was relatively new and ordered the 4 CD set at Walnut Creek. I got it only after 3 weeks, because I paid with my credit card, but for overseas orders they wait until they have cashed the money before shipping the product ! I then started to learn about FreeBSD with the Handbook and installing the operating system several times. The first time, it didn't work, because I had disabled the sysconsole driver (nobody had told me it was required, and there was no device called "sysconsole" on my PC's hardware list :-)). The second time, I got the system up and running, so I continued with the Handbook's chapter 3 and read about the info files, which I didn't have online because I had choosen a "normal user" setup. At that time, I had no idea about how I could add the info files, so to me the only workaround was to start over installing FreeBSD and choose "everything". You see, some things may seem obvious to advanced users, but not to newbies ... As I unfortunately can't spend much time on FreeBSD and the Handbook seems to be work in progress, I print it out in small parts in order to have always the latest update. This leads to my first question about the Handbook: how can I know that some previous part I already studied has been updated, so that I can print it out again and keep my hardcopy of the Handbook up to date? Will I see a message about it in the announce mailing list? Now I felt a little bit sad to see the 2.2.6 version I just bought is already an old version, because 2.2.7 has been released. How to keep up with something that evolves so fast? A new version gets released long before I could study the previous one! I know I could just go on with 2.2.6, but then comes my second question: what about the Handbook on the website? For how long will it cover the 2.2.6 version I have, instead of the newer 2.2.7? Greetings, jozef.baum@advalvas.be P.S. - Yes, I know, I composed and sent this message with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but I feel it will take some more time before I get my FreeBSD system connected to the Internet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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