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A fellow Albertan!!  I love it! :-)  I would also recommend buying the
cd's.  They are well worth the money, especially if you lose a HD
etc...  There are a few of us that are talking a little bit about
forming some sort of informal AFUG (Alberta FreeBSD Users Group).  If
you are interested please let me know.  Also, if we do set one up, would
you be at all interested in hosting a private irc server?  You could be
reimbursed for it somehow...  Also, I would recommend going to
www.freebsd.org and looking under documentation/newbies for a doc called
"For People new to both FreeBSD and Unix".  That one really helped me.

Darren Wiebe
dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com

> Gordon Govenlock wrote:
> 
> I am a PC technician - however, that has unfortunately caused my
> computer to be running Win'98.  I have an ADSL account, and would like
> to setup a firewall in a 486.  I have no Unix/Linux experience, but
> look forward? to the challange...  I am currently downloading the
> entire ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD directory.  Is this a bad
> thing?  I have no idea where to start...  any suggestions?


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