From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 12:03:11 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 91DBA16A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:03:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from server945.gisol.com (server945.gisol.com [207.44.208.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F21443D81 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:02:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webmaster@countrypure.net) Received: from 216-229-72-31-dialup-mo.fidnet.com ([216.229.72.31] helo=countrypure.net) by server945.gisol.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AgrDM-0007yk-Qd; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:02:09 -0800 Message-ID: <40059FE3.8030309@countrypure.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:00:35 -0600 From: Quintin Riis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Slim References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040113194758.0305be90@pop3.aviating.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040113194758.0305be90@pop3.aviating.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server945.gisol.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - countrypure.net cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Unix vs. Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 20:03:11 -0000 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" > > >