From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 07:01:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E9916A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from web40606.mail.yahoo.com (web40606.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEB2943D55 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:01:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patterner@rocketmail.com) Message-ID: <20040114150115.15122.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.101.101.61] by web40606.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:01:15 PST Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:01:15 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Readle To: Slim , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040113194758.0305be90@pop3.aviating.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: BSD Unix vs. Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: patterner@rocketmail.com List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:01:18 -0000 Not sure about an organized program of learning, but one book I found to be invaluable (and have seem several other people recommend) is Absolute BSD by Michael Lucas. Gives great overview of the OS and how it's put together. It covers things mostly from a server perspective, but a lot is still applicable to a desktop user. crr --- Slim wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus