From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 17:10:59 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 74F2037B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:10:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE3943FBF for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341C141991; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:10:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:10:52 -0500 X-Epoch: 1046308252 X-Sasl-enc: Ep3M14VJrA4lJL/WjtE3Ow Received: from sparky (dialup-63.214.195.207.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.195.207]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B541F8A7; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:10:51 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Online intro to FreeBSD/Unix References: <15964.62992.928552.950327@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:10:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <15964.62992.928552.950327@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Opera7.02/Win32 M2 build 2668 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 Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:14:56 -0600, 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? I don't know if this is precisely what your client wants or needs (and they are HTML rather than PS or PDF, though perhaps they can be converted), but the FreeBSD Basics articles by Dru Lavigne have been a great help to me from the time I started FreeBSD (my first Unix) right through the present day. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 Jud P.S. Thanks, Dru. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message