Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 13:48:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: stwahah@yahoo.com (sayed twaha hussain) Cc: jerrymc@msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Students Message-ID: <200206301748.g5UHmQL07547@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020629231218.78607.qmail@web40209.mail.yahoo.com> from "sayed twaha hussain" at Jun 29, 2002 04:12:18 PM
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Hi, > Hi dear sir > > I am IT faculty incharge in my Institute > in Karachi Pakistan. > We are group of Engineers and training > our students for Operating Systems. > We are also interested in FreeBSD like Linux > especially to train our networking students for > FreeBSD also. > But there is no any material available in my > region for FreeBSD. > We need guidance from your side, because we are > giving training only in Open Source world. Well, the best thing you can do is start with the FreeBSD web site at: www.freebsd.org/ and look around the many links that you can find there which point to articles and books and other documentation. THere is much free stuff and the book can be purchased from FreeBSD related sites such as FreeBSD Mall as well as most commercial online sites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble and Borders. Since FreeBSD can be downloaded and installed for free and since it is a complete and powerful operating system and since it is completely open source so all the source can be studied and/or modified, it is ideal for students both as a system to use and one for learning the principles of operating systems. There are many tutorials and books, but since FreeBSD is non-commercial and created and supported by volunteers, there are no marketing departments or company "seminars" [eg informative sales pitches] that come around to beguile students. There are occasional user conferences so you might keep an eye open for those, but they are not free - in fact they are a bit pricey, but content was good when I attended. So, FreeBSD is somewhat a do-it-yourself study with some good materials available to help. And if you develop some study materials along the way, I recommend making them available to the whole community, much as the software developers do with their work. Good luck, ////jerry > > waiting for further and regards! > > Twaha Hussain. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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