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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
 >Then read one of the many FreeBSD books.  The one by Annelise Anderson
 >is most certainly not written for serious IT professionals.  I know
 >because I have read it.

As a non-serious non-IT non-professional, I keep going back to this book 
time and time again. Even after almost three years with FreeBSD I'm 
still a rookie, and her book makes sense. FreeBSD Unleashed is also 
helpful. Only in the last year or so has the handbook started to make 
sense to me. Even scarier, some man pages are readable now. Greg Lehey's 
book on the other hand is in another solar system! :-)

I replaced Win98 with FreeBSD 4.7 as a home desktop. I really should be 
using Xandros or SuSE, but I find learning FreeBSD to be interesting, 
Lord help me.

People on this list are very helpful to beginners. Especially if the 
beginner has shown she's put some effort into the problem herself.

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