From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 20:30: 0 2002 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 B782037B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C9243E3B for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021018032956.MXJR18217.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 03:29:56 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9I3WeUW093827; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g9I3WYPp093824; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:32:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Robert Warning Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to BSD and have a few questions. References: <3DAF446A.1010901@gmx.net> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 17 Oct 2002 20:32:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3DAF446A.1010901@gmx.net> Message-ID: Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Robert Warning writes: > My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD > world? -- Failure to post questions in traditional e-mail formats. (You jumped that pit quite nicely, thank you.) -- Failure to skim the many resources (other than posting to lists) to get familiar with what info is available. Specifically, the stuff at www.freebsd.org like the Handbook, the FAQ, the System Manual (AKA man pages), and many other pages one or two links off the home page. (Your question was quite OK and not a FAQ, in my experience.) -- An expectation that FreeBSD is very useful without high-speed Internet access. Others will disagree, but I think you'll find that the solution to almost every problem involves downloading lots of stuff. -- Failure to quickly get up to speed on these topics: ports/packages; distributions/releases/ids-of-same; /etc/{,defaults}/{rc,make}.conf; (At a more advanced level: kernel/world building/installing) -- Security Levels. Lots of people get a reasonably sounding level during installation and are suprised to discover that they can't run X above the lowest level. -- Unfamiliarity with "csh" or "sh" and not knowing how to install a more familiar shell. (Not that they should, but they often do.) -- For some users, unfamiliarity with FreeBSD's fdisk, disklabel, and newfs programs. Many get by using /stand/sysinstall instead. (?) -- Occasional hostility to closed-source-hostile copyleft sentiments. (I guess that's not a COMMON pitfall, but you have been forewarned. :) -- Most importantly (?), familiarity with: http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search; http://www.google.com/advanced_search There's an article which aims to help Linux refugees at http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=580 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message