From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 16:51:33 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 DBDFD16A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:51:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A90743D5E for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from rogers.com ([24.43.93.57]) by fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.comESMTP <20040115005029.XBJI337742.fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com>; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:50:29 -0500 Message-ID: <4005E409.7000506@rogers.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:51:21 -0500 From: mj001 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Slim References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040113194758.0305be90@pop3.aviating.org> <40059FE3.8030309@countrypure.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.43.93.57] using ID at Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:50:28 -0500 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: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:51:34 -0000 Quintin Riis wrote: > > > 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" >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > I would also recommend Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD". I also have "FreeBSD Unleashed" and "Absolute BSD". There is lots of overlap between them, but each one brings an original viewpoint and new nuggets of information. Greg's book is the one I keep coming back to, however. Now if I could only get my Nvidia video card to work properly with 5.1...