Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:15:29 -0800 (PST) From: Evgeny Roubinchtein <eroubinc@u.washington.edu> To: Jim & Rhella Rochon <jimr@ican.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need to know how to program to use FreeBSD? (was Re: your mail) Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.05.9812311708040.76032-100000@dante28.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <000a01be34f1$4b6f4a60$65b39a8e@jimrocho>
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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Jim & Rhella Rochon wrote:
>Do you have to know how to program to be able to use this OS because I
>don't know how to do this yet?
Absolutely not; it helps to be somewhat familiar with PCs (what's a HD
partition, what's an IRQ, etc). In fact, you can use this OS to learn how
to program -- the programming tools you might pay $$$ for under Micro$oft,
you can get for free (or price of the CD) under FreeBSD. Using FreeBSD,
you will probably end up developing some scripting, if not programming
ability sooner or later ("shell scripts" -- like batch files, but tons
better, Perl, etc scripts).
--
Evgeny Roubinchtein, eroubinc@u.washington.edu
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