From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 01:08:10 2005 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 C8C5316A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:08:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F6743D4C for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:08:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afabian@austin.rr.com) Received: from turingmachine.mentalsiege.net (cs70112247-52.austin.rr.com [70.112.247.52])j03186J5026383; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:08:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from turingmachine.mentalsiege.net (turingmachine.mentalsiege.net [127.0.0.1])j0317o1P004625; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:07:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from afabian@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net) Received: (from afabian@localhost)j0317oVl004616; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:07:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from afabian) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:07:42 -0600 From: Adam Fabian To: PeruvianFinest03@aol.com Message-ID: <20050103010742.GA4498@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> Mail-Followup-To: PeruvianFinest03@aol.com, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <1ec.317efbf9.2f09d846@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1ec.317efbf9.2f09d846@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) 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: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:08:10 -0000 On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 06:05:42PM -0500, PeruvianFinest03@aol.com wrote: > in my area I want to learn it. I was never taught about "Linux, Unix" > and a lot of stuff I really don't know. My point is I know there is > got to be a good site where I can post my questions and get some good > answers . I am currently 16 and don't know much about FreeBSD but I The primary means of support for FreeBSD is the freebsd-questions mailing list, accessed in a similar manner to however you accessed this list. You will also find a great deal of Linux/UNIX information directly applicable to FreeBSD, and more applicable with little translations for platform differences, etc. There is a lot of consistency between UNIX variants; shell scripting questions would probably be on topic on most generic UNIX forums, and questions about rc.conf (FreeBSD's "main" configuration file in the /etc directory) might be mildly off-topic or better addressed to a more specifically FreeBSD-oriented forum. http://www.google.com/bsd has a lot of answers. If you're new, it'd be helpful to read the FreeBSD handbook. It'll answer questions you didn't even realize you had yet. It's linked off of http://www.freebsd.org. FreeBSD is one of the better-documented open-source operating systems around. -- Adam Fabian (afabian@austin.rr.com)