Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 06:38:35 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "David Johnson" <djohnson@acuson.com>, "Caleb Walker" <cwalker@computech-ca.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <002101bf893e$485ceb50$827e03cb@ORACLE> References: <38C6012E.E1A8ADA5@computech-ca.com> <38C69F74.840D05B2@acuson.com>
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Well said David .... I think many of us former linux users appreciate the lack of fanatacism which typifies so many of the linux faithful :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Johnson" <djohnson@acuson.com> To: "Caleb Walker" <cwalker@computech-ca.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 4:44 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD > Caleb Walker wrote: > > > > Hello my name is Caleb Walker I am trying to learn the UNIX operating > > system right now. I am a Windows NT Network Engineer in California. I > > am very interested in helping others and being involved in helping > > forward FreeBSD UNIX. Please let me know what I can do. > > Step One: Learn Unix. Notice that I didn't say "learn FreeBSD". Picking up a book on > FreeBSD is great, but a book on just plain Unix is even better. You never know when the > next computer you have to work on will have IRIX, Solaris, Linux or something else. You're > in luck, though, because the various BSDs are closer to the atypical Unix than some other > unices. > > Step Two: Don't fear the command line. You don't have to love it, but don't try to avoid > it. You will learn much more about Unix by fiddling with it, than by watching some GUI > front end do the fiddling for you. Learn vi. Learn sh and csh. Then use bash or tcsh. > > Step Three: Now that you've learned FreeBSD, don't get too gung-ho over it. Don't get into > fights with Linux users (even if they start it). FreeBSD does not have the popularity of > Linux in part because it was too low-key about itself. But taking the opposite extreme > won't help either. Some of the rabid Linux advocates do more harm than good. When people > ask you have FreeBSD, don't gloss over the rough spots and don't exaggerate the easy > parts. Finally, don't make fun of your former MSCE colleages, or any non-Unix user. > > Hope some of this helps, > > David > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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