Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:28:29 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: W Chu <apimpression@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions from new user Message-ID: <20010905152828.B466@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3B95A062.94428C72@mindspring.com>; from apimpression@mindspring.com on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:47:47PM -0700 References: <3B95A062.94428C72@mindspring.com>
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From: W Chu <apimpression@mindspring.com>
Subject: Questions from new user
Date: Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:47:47PM -0700
Hello there,
Since somebody has answered most of these questions already,
I think I can answer the last unanswered one. Namely:
> (2) I am SuSE Linux user. What is the learning curve for me to learn
> FreeBSD ?
Well, if someone starts to learn about FreeBSD without prior knowledge
of how a Unix-like system is supposed to work, it is probably a bit
tough, and requires some serious reading before one begins to grasp
how things are set up. The fact that you have used another Unix-like
system before (SuSE Linux), will probably help a lot. There are many
similarities in the way things are done in the Linux world, and the
way everything works in FreeBSD. There are also a few differences,
some of them minor and insignificant, other more important.
You will find that the FAQ [1] and the Handbook [2] are very valuable
resources in discovering what these differences are, and what the
"canonical" way of doing everything in FreeBSD is. Other online
resources, as the FreeBSD project homepage [3], and the Monthly [4]
or Daily [5] editions of Daemonnews, are among my favorites for
discovering new things in FreebSD.
With the extensive and detailed documentation that FreeBSD has, in the
form of manpages, tutorials, online references, etc. Even this list
(especially the -questions list), has been a great place to ask
questions and find answers for me. It should not be very easy to
learn how it works. Being a Unix-like system will also (very soon)
prove to be very nice :-)
Ciao,
and welcome to FreeBSD.
-giorgos
[-- References --]
[1] The FreeBSD FAQ, (english version)
http://www.freebsd.org/faq/
[2] The FreeBSD Handbook, (english version)
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/
[3] The FreeBSD project homepage
http://www.freebsd.org/
[4] Daemonnews (monthly)
http://www.daemonnews.org/
[5] Daemonnews (daily)
http://daily.daemonnews.org/
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