From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 7 18:58:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CF337B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000908015735.WIER8573.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:57:35 -0700 Message-ID: <39B7E55A.3C96CD25@home.com> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 18:58:34 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Zaveloff Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resources for Running FreeBSD References: <8p9gel+fnmm@eGroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Steven Zaveloff wrote: > > I purchased the "FreeBSD Handbook" with Ver. 4.1 from Walnut Creek > CDROM. I was able to get FreeBSD installed and configured and went > through the Handbook, which is very good for getting things set up. > Unfortunately, it does not cover actually running the system: > simple things like starting X-Windows and Gnome. Can anyone suggest > a good resource for this? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message Since many of these packages exist for Linux, I often use my Linux books as references. Otherwise I go with the man pages, howtos, and website resources. Unix for the Impatient by Abrahams and Larson is very good when I need to know how to use some of the common Unix commands. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message