From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 6 21:29:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from garnet.acns.fsu.edu (gmhub.acns.fsu.edu [146.201.2.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E01C1568E for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 21:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu) Received: from garnet1.acns.fsu.edu (garnet1-fi.acns.fsu.edu [128.186.197.2]) by garnet.acns.fsu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA77196; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 00:27:25 -0400 Received: from s1o3q0 (dial134.acns.fsu.edu [146.201.32.134]) by garnet1.acns.fsu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA37830; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 00:27:23 -0400 Message-ID: <020501be80ae$fd1aa800$8620c992@s1o3q0> From: "Brett G. Castleberry" To: Cc: References: <19990406205551.QXQP5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Diary - how to guides Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 00:27:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org How much is too much? Most of what I'm seeing on FreeBSD/ Questions is over my head and almost discouraging. I've been a bookman all my life, a pressman, a bookseller, and for the last ten years, a librarian. When I returned to school for a masters degree a couple of years ago, my program was called "Library Science". Now it's called "Information Studies", and IT students (along with their tuition fees) are pouring in, at this point outnumbering LS students. Those of us who are dedicated to providing public access to useful information are scrambling to learn how to find and use digital resources. In addition, as I've become acquainted with unix I have realized that our own library automation system operates on top of unix. So, I want FreeBSD to play and learn with. Perhaps I can connect my FreeBSD 486 to my Win98 box and learn about networking too. I sense in your free OS project a spirit akin to that of the public librarian, and I salute you. Brett Castleberry bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message