From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 2:48:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wank.necropolis.org (wank.necropolis.org [207.246.128.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997EE1591A for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) Received: from localhost (todd@localhost) by wank.necropolis.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA05370; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:53:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) X-Authentication-Warning: wank.necropolis.org: todd owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:53:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman X-Sender: todd@wank.necropolis.org To: Rusty Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elementary documentation In-Reply-To: <37C65D04.2D8443C5@gci.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This may sound funny but I recommend getting the "UNIX for dummies -Quick refrence manual". It is quite informative and is way less technical than the man pages. It has good explanations and provides good examples that are not too obscure. - Todd On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Rusty wrote: > Hi! > > I'm teaching my eleven (11) year old son how to use Freebsd. I have a > 400 MgH box and his is 330 MgH machine. I recently built a 300 MgH box > to use as a gateway and a router. I have a 40 mg SuSE 6.1 hack that > will do service as a firewall and router. > > My question is; where may I find documentation that is simple enough for > an above average 11 year old to understand? An example: Tonight we > were compiling some games (what else?) that he had downloaded and he > inquired about the meaning of the arguments following the commands > "gunzip" and "tar". He wanted to know what each stood for. I'm not > about to reefer an eleven year old to a man page, I don't do that to > anyone I like. We consulted one of the many three inch thick books on > Unix I have purchased from time to time and I was able to give him the > correct answer. Giving a newbie a good, informative answer is important > if you want that person to be properly grounded in the discipline they > are studying. Learning the basics well makes the rest of the study > easy. > > If anyone has some recommendations as to where I may purchase > documentation that will fit my requirements I will be most appreciative. > > Thank you, > > Rusty > > > 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