From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 16:56:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33ED37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3B343FA3 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b179.otenet.gr [212.205.244.187]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1R0ulAC016296; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:56:48 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1R0ukON007380; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:56:46 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1R0ujFm007379; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:56:45 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:56:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Online intro to FreeBSD/Unix Message-ID: <20030227005644.GC6416@gothmog.gr> References: <15964.62992.928552.950327@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15964.62992.928552.950327@guru.mired.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-26 11:14, Mike Meyer wrote: > I have a client that wants to start using FreeBSD, because he wants to > get back into programming and wants to use the free compilers on > FreeBSD. However, he hasn't used Unix in 10 years or more, and has > forgotten all of it. > > Is there a PS or PDF document somewhere that serves as an introduction > to Unix/FreeBSD I can point him at for documentation? If the documentation you have to provide is not required to be specific to FreeBSD and only to FreeBSD, you could always use the classic Linux book for newbies: Welsh, Matt. "Linux Installation and Getting Started" http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/LDP/gs/gs.html I rather liked it back when I read it. I still do. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message