From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 6:49:54 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 58A3C37B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:49:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mcesr.etat.lu (dynamic4.etat.lu [194.154.200.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1125C43F3F for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:49:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu) Received: from [148.110.43.149] (HELO mcesr.etat.lu) by mcesr.etat.lu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 709603; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:38:54 +0100 Message-ID: <3E3000FE.9020508@mcesr.etat.lu> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:49:34 +0100 From: Didier Wiroth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030122 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Pelleg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dan Pelleg wrote: >"JCBotha" writes: > > > >>Dear Sir >> >>I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to >>look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able to >>master this OS because I grew up with Windows and know nothing about UNIX OS >>systems. With windows I at least can help myself and find my way around. >> >> >> Hi, I started a few month ago, and I honestly don't regret my decision! FreeBSD is great! For your information, I knew nothing abut UNIX OSes two! Do yourself a favour, try it! I had no *NIX OS knowledge at all, I thought I would start with Linux but I honestly gave up! What I didn't like about it is that every single Distribution had it's own directory structure and startup scripts etc! When I was posting questions at a mailing List I received answers covering Red hat or other distribution and that was confusing for me as a beginner! FreeBSD is well structured and it is explained why and where to find what! Very very very important! You will see.. :-)) I would recommand the following books in order of preference: 1a) The FreeBSD Handbook - if your are not sure about choosing FreeBSD or not first have a look at the online version of the book (see the link below) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html 2) Unix Power Tools 3rd editions (which was revised and covers FreeBSD, it will give you Unix base knowledge) 3) FreeBSD Unleashed (it is really good book, and covers a little bit of everything) 4) Absolute BSD (it is a really great book but may be to difficult as a starter) Good luck! Simply give it a try, you will see after some training and reading you will fall love it! Didier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message