From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 8 12:33:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731F637B626 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA14362; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 06:32:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "ORACLE" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdc14360; Thu Mar 9 06:32:31 2000 Message-ID: <002101bf893e$485ceb50$827e03cb@ORACLE> From: "Doug Young" To: "David Johnson" , "Caleb Walker" Cc: References: <38C6012E.E1A8ADA5@computech-ca.com> <38C69F74.840D05B2@acuson.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 06:38:35 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" To: "Caleb Walker" Cc: 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