From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 14:42:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD3D1065672 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from passiveprofits@yahoo.com) Received: from web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 688888FC25 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from passiveprofits@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 77735 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Mar 2008 14:15:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=RMu9LwunGu/DNJ7zxaWQcEEt8YD3DwrXU7AAnVtKSaJ2Y5+Je5dMe48igTWr/pxjpz1cYtyAt15L3mFvskVJKdXHpjhX6vdgp+v5AtZJzJprvd6RVWIXCdS6ZbpD/KRQOmPuzQiOP/rr3dPZqYYg/SHWXWa2l2CmJrURmy00glU=; X-YMail-OSG: iCIgpvwVM1mzsiBl.W7H4BR7zE51XRs2jaP43heNcoe8FzV2Wwr3JJ96TQ8A0c6M1APi_O.drdPSc68YI85fnleFUbf1NI5Qvg8o17UmvGAbct2Ch54- Received: from [80.46.113.101] by web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:15:30 PDT Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:15:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Passive PROFITS To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <252055.77706.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Newbie Question - about newbie user support X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:42:12 -0000 Hi All, First post to any FreeBSD list; be gentle! ;) Where would be the right place to go looking to subscribe to a newbie level user-support list? Perhaps rephrased 'complete newbie user support list' ... LOL I'm only like 9+ months into Linux [Ubuntu desktop/server installs v.6.06.1 LTS], though with 12+ years on Windows before that {cough}. Only just finding my way around with CLI, etc, etc. Nevertheless, I wish to try to install and configure FreeBSD as a firewall and I am currently based in the South of England, should that be relevant to any response. Any/all pointers much appreciated!! The only 'official' list seems to be this: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions But it starts off with the rather intimidating phrase "You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical." Obviously all my questions are going to be pretty stupid, 'How-To' type questions, try though I might to get up to speed, I fear it's going to be some time indeed before I will graduate out of the stupid newbie type questions! Is there anything out there in the FreeBSD world that might be of help to me, or is it RTFM all the way?! {not as bad as it sounded initially, as I hear BSD is well documented?!}... Anyway - any pointers to something more at my level appreciated, if there is anything in existence. I do appreciate I'm most likely asking my first stupid question to any FreeBSD list. Doesn't seem like an OS people arrive at without first being a bit of an expert, which I am patently, not! TIA for any (polite) response at all! PP ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs