From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 8 21:42:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f55.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8A0B37B77E for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:42:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from the_hermit665@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 36361 invoked by uid 0); 9 Mar 2000 05:42:50 -0000 Message-ID: <20000309054250.36360.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 207.246.128.137 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 08 Mar 2000 21:42:50 PST X-Originating-IP: [207.246.128.137] Reply-To: the_hermit665@hotmail.com From: "Cosmic 665" To: grog@lemis.com, the_hermit665@hotmail.com Cc: cwalker@computech-ca.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 21:42:50 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am by far no unix expert. I learned what I do know about Unix and FreeBSD through "The Complete FreeBSD". I know very little about what "Real unix" is, but with so many OS's making up unix as they go along (ex. Linux, etc.), It's very difficult to actually learn a real Unix platform. One of the reasons why I use FreeBSD is because I had a lot of trouble with Linux. Most of the books give references to URL's which become broken right away. Or the online docs that books point to are so "Off-topic", I couldn't figure out how to do anything. FreeBSD provides a very simple Unix operating system for anyone to learn unix. I think "The Complete FreeBSD" is a great book for someone to understand a unix OS. There's step-by-step instructions which work and are easy to follow. After you lean the OS, you can begin to learn how Unix works. That's the approach I'm taking towards learning unix. As for the "Unix for the Impatient" book, I've never read it. I like the "Unix Secrets" book :) >Really my book isn't for people learning UNIX, it's for people who >have some idea of UNIX who want to learn to use FreeBSD. So Caleb's >idea is, at least in theory, a good one. > >The real question is: what's a good book for learning UNIX? There >were none when I learnt UNIX, but one book I rather like is "UNIX for >the Impatient" by Abrahams and Larson (Addison Wesley). I'd be >interested in feedback from real newbies who have started out with >this book, because it will help me decide whether to continue >recommending it. > >Greg >-- >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message