From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 17 2: 5:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF804152EA for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2E38E18F7; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:05:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D51749EF; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:05:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:05:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Sue Blake Cc: administrator@haugstad.com, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What now? In-Reply-To: <19990617085740.12511@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > You always get what you pay for. With free unix you pay for it with study. > Unix is not designed to be user-friendly, but it is designed to do its > job very well. You have to become machine-friendly instead. > > PicoBSD is the worst way to learn unix that I can think of. It is a > very cut down version of a large powerful operating system, set up to > do a specific task for those who know what they are doing. There is no > documentation, no "help", you just have to know it. > > A better idea would be to get yourself a 486 or better with at least > 300MB disk space and install FreeBSD, not PicoBSD, and start learning. [...] > Well that's my opinion. Others on this list are welcome to disagree. I fully agree with you. PicoBSD is not for the faint of heart EVEN if you know Unix... :-/ Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message