From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 20 15:27:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10180 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10172 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA22142; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:26:11 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980821082608.23489@welearn.com.au> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:26:08 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Malartre Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: URL and Opinions on how to really learn something References: <35DC550F.3E76A4F3@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <35DC550F.3E76A4F3@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:55:43PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:55:43PM -0400, Malartre wrote: > > The main thing I hate with Unix is than there is no standarisation, so > you need to read a lot of stuff who do not really matter about such and > such situation (exemple: sh vs csh, will I learn both? Do I need to > learn both? Also System V vs BSD vs AIX vs HP-UX etc...: they always > give a lot of documentation on both way in the same document, this is > why my old Oreilly book have 500 pages on Unix, and only ½ of them apply > for BSD, if not less) > Hope it will help You've hit the nail on the head. While there's a lot of resources around, it is very difficult to find and select those that are worth recommending. A good example is unix guides for beginners. There's thousands of them, but which ones are good? Someone who knows absolutely nothing about unix can't judge very well, and it takes a lot of time to look through a large list of them. What should a basic introductory unix guide for new FreeBSD users offer? Off the top of my head... - make no assumptions about prior knowledge (or state them up front) - contain no errors - relevant to my system (FreeBSD) - relevant to my configuration (e.g. describes the same shell) - easy to understand, good pace - explain concepts as well as how-to - demonstrate how to use the concepts to expand on learned skills - show how what is learned can be put into daily use - make me feel confident, not stupid - suggest where to go to learn more Anything else? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message