From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 17 1:41:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from gully.hnett.no (gully.hnett.no [195.18.228.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36C8114F6C for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from administrator@haugstad.com) Received: from age (unverified [195.18.228.104]) by gully.hnett.no (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:41:11 +0200 Reply-To: From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5ge_J._Haugstad?=" To: Cc: "Sue Blake" Subject: RE: What now? Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:41:07 +0200 Message-ID: <005601beb89d$24d297b0$c12ad9c1@age.jobak.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <19990617085740.12511@welearn.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I new that, it is just that I do not know if there should be a prompt after booting PicoBSD or not! Can you give me a yes or no? -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sue Blake Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 12:58 AM To: administrator@haugstad.com Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What now? On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 03:16:14PM +0200, Åge J. Haugstad wrote: > I have never used any unix system before, but I found that PicoBSD > might be suitable as an economic router/firewall. You always get what you pay for. With free unix you pay for it with study. Unix is not designed to be user-friendly, but it is designed to do its job very well. You have to become machine-friendly instead. PicoBSD is the worst way to learn unix that I can think of. It is a very cut down version of a large powerful operating system, set up to do a specific task for those who know what they are doing. There is no documentation, no "help", you just have to know it. A better idea would be to get yourself a 486 or better with at least 300MB disk space and install FreeBSD, not PicoBSD, and start learning. Buy the new (3rd) edition of The Complete FreeBSD and work through it. The book comes with a set of CDs from which you can install FreeBSD and thousands of programs. Go to www.freebsd.org and from there: 1 Follow the link at the bottom to FreeBSD Mall to buy the book and CDs 2 Follow the link under Documentation to the Newbies guide, and explore the many links on that page. Your 486 with a normal installation of FreeBSD will become a cheap router and firewall, about the time that you become someone who is actively learning about unix. Much later, when you really know what you're doing, you can apply what you know to using PicoBSD on a machine with less disk space, if you have a need to do it that way. Well that's my opinion. Others on this list are welcome to disagree. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message