From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 17:06:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4DC37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-relay-2.adobe.com (smtp-relay-2.adobe.com [192.150.11.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF49943FBD for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:06:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rolnif@mac.com) Received: from inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com (inner-relay-1 [153.32.1.51]) h5H06lOh003688 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (mailsj-dev.corp.adobe.com [153.32.1.192])h5H06grj010370 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com ([153.32.129.125]) by mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 v1 Jul 11 2001 16:32:57) with ESMTP id HGLMZ400.EN4; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:06:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3EEE5B90.5040304@mac.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:06:40 -0700 From: John Martinez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030404 Minotaur/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David References: <000a01c3346a$cf1455e0$45840350@f7o6v7> <200306161701.59666.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200306161701.59666.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: jim roberts roberts cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i am a newbie to unix linux etc etc and using commas X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:06:50 -0000 Johnson David wrote: > > Do you realize how large of a PDF that would be? No doubt! > Instead, go grab the latest "Complete FreeBSD", "UNIX System > Administration", and "Open Sources" from O'Reilly. Those three books > should cover everything you mentioned. And most of those documents will take the high road on why UNIX and BSD are great operating systems. Too much MS bashing can sometimes have the opposite of the desired effect. -john