Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:48:53 -0800 From: Slim <jallen@aviating.org> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Unix vs. Linux Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040113194758.0305be90@pop3.aviating.org>
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Where would you start to learn FreeBSD if you were not a software major, or pro, and had no Unix background particularly? I had no trouble getting the hang of DOS, and put off going to Windoz as long as I could years ago. I've been following this list for quite a while, since before 4.7 came out, read the web pages, and am having a hard time getting to the point that I can do anything useful. Can anyone suggest an organized systematic approach to learning this stuff? It's almost like learning a foreign language with a different alphabet in that you can't learn anything until you can make heads or tails out of something and you can't make heads or tails out of anything until you learn. Maybe it's old dogs and new tricks, but can anyone suggest a good program (no pun intended!) of learning? Slim At 12:45 PM 1/13/04, you wrote: >My problem with Linux was with documentation. I'm just learning *nix for >the first time and needed a lot of concise information. I found it hard to >pick up a Linux book and be able to figure out "what" was "where" and how >to transfer that information to the installation I was using....even if I >was trying the distribution that came packaged with the book I was reading! > >FreeBSD is quite the opposite. I can pretty much "trust" what I read to be >true to what is really going on with any given BSD system I'm trying to >work with.
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