Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:54:02 -0600 From: Lute Mullenix <lute@cableone.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use? Message-ID: <20040223085402.21045621@agnes> In-Reply-To: <200402211258.13361.niel@telia.com> References: <200402211258.13361.niel@telia.com>
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Niel, To be honest with you I find the man pages easier to decipher than your message. While I used to feel the same as you do, there is no substitute for experience, and you only get that one way. By doing it. A good book for newbies is FreeBSD an Open Source Operating System for your Personal Computer. Has some good examples. And if you actually go through the Handbook it has several step by step how tos. Tells you what to do and where to do it. I have found FreeBSD as easy to install and in ways easier to setup than Windows. Of course I have only done one Windows install and found it so frustrating that I scraped it and used the entire disk for FreeBSD. I don't mean to be discouraging because I would love to see more people using FreeBSD, but in a way I guess I'm lucky to have started using computers back in the DOS era. Though I never actually used DOS, was running OS9 on a 6809 machine. But it was just an excepted fact that if you were going to be using a computer you were going to have to read the manuals, and learn what they were talking about. Ok now that I have that out of my system, besides the book already mentioned, you may want to pickup the book, Linux in plain English. Don't let the title put you off, while there a some Linux specific things in it, for the most part it covers basic UNIX commands and utilities. Doesn't give a lot of examples but does tell you what they do. Also include some of the more common apps found on U*ix. And use the Handbook, it's probably the best FreeBSD resource out there right now. If you have a question, chances are it's covered in there. -- Lute ************************ * Power Provided * * by * * FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE * ************************
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